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Adventures on Two Wheels - A Guide to Cycling in Biei

The wind in your hair and the scenery sloping away before you... there is nothing quite like cycling in Biei. While you can definitely go much further and faster when using a car in Biei, you may well miss the beauty around you if...

Flower Wonderland Biei

A meadow of flowers unfolds before you, the Tokachidake mountain range in the background. What a breathtaking sight! Biei's flower fields are some of the town's most popular attractions. However, did you know that each meadow has...

Purple Lupines

In a landscape full of green, bright pink and purple flowers catch the eye... Look, in the distance! There's a beautiful field of purple and pink swaying... what could that bright colour be?  These are lupines, one of Biei's seaso...

Grass Bales

In Biei's summer, take a moment to relax with a rich ice cream In this post we talked about hay bales, round shapes that appear in Biei's summer, but there are in fact two kinds of bales—hay bales and grass bales. As their name wo...

Potato Flower Meadows

“What could these flowers be?” In Hokkaido, no sooner is it spring before suddenly summer rushes onto the scene. Once you get into June, days where the temperature rises close to 30oC are not unusual. In this season, plants being...

Hay Bales

“In summer, what are those round shapes that appear?” Countless round bales in the huge fields is scenery often used in imagery for Hokkaido, but roughly when do you think they appear? Answer: this is a sight that you can see ofte...

The Charms of Biei's Wheat Fields

The wind blows, and the golden horizon shimmers… truly, this scenery is the soul of Biei. La, la, lalala la la, la, la lalala…♪ Do you know that tune? It's the song that plays when a certain heroine from a popular animated film st...

Spring Wheat and Autumn Wheat

Fields of wheat and the clouds slipping by   When you think of scenery that is characteristic of Biei in July, what springs to mind? “Lavender!” Well… I suppose… Yes, “lavender” is an acceptable answer, I guess, but if we're...

Biei's Famous Wheat Harvest & Red Wheat

What do you know about wheat harvests? “I've heard of them, but that's about it…” Well then, let's review them for both those who know and those who don't! In Japanese, the word “wheat harvest” is written with both the characters...

Sweetcorn – The Flavour of Summer

The gold that we treasure in Biei isn't mineral, it's vegetable! What are these tall, green crops with fuzzy antenna? These are sweetcorn plants, another of Biei's main crops! When did sweetcorn come to Biei? Sweetcorn has actuall...