Originally Posted by
Wilko Pali Sedef
Thanks everyone for these valuable inputs, highly appreciated.
Sadly I won't have much time to prepare for this trip, ,I'm going to look at everything you posted, ideally I want a mix of city & nature & would love to do a bike tour maybe or just rent a bike & discover for myself.
How much is a 5 day JR pass?
At a minimum check out sites like
http://us.jnto.go.jp/top/index.php I see two Hokkaido articles from the home page and there are links to plenty more information you can print out for the plane. These days there is little excuse for not being informed on things to do in most regions of Japan.