Driving to Hokkaido

Submitted by Iceman10458 on Tue, 2010/10/05 - 22:55.

Hey everybody,

I've been told one can drive to Hokkaido via ferry. I wanted to see if anyone had actually done this and how much it cost to have the car ferried. If you know of a website where I can find how much it costs and/or the schedule of the ferry please let me know.

peace,

Fitz

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I'm on a boat

Submitted by Brooke on Wed, 2010/10/06 - 09:08.

The closest ferry port looks to be in Niigata.
Here's some info:
http://www.snf.jp/fare/maiduru_otaru.html
and here's the schedule:
http://www.snf.jp/schedule/maiduru_otaru.html

Hope it helps.

Brooke Brown
CIR/PA
International Affairs Division
Department of Life and Culture
tel: 027-226-3394
fax: 027-223-1692
e-mail: brown-b@pref.gunma.jp

driving to Hokkaido

Submitted by yllwsmrf on Tue, 2010/10/12 - 13:18.

The usual route to drive to Hokkaido is to head to Aomori City from where you can take the Seikan Ferry to Hakodate. The ferry is about 16000 yen (17500 in autumn) one way (there's a 10% roundtrip discount) for the typical car, plus 1650 yen per passenger. Here's the ferry website:

http://www.seikan-ferry.co.jp/index2.html

You can look up expressway tolls here:

http://www.driveplaza.com/dp/SearchTop#search_map

Awesome. thank you both for

Submitted by Iceman10458 on Wed, 2010/10/13 - 23:13.

Awesome. thank you both for the information ! I appreciate it.