From the hillside in Iwanai Town !

by Kazu

Usually, we stay in "Takashima Ryokan", Japanese traditional inn established by a fisherman who ran a pleasure-boat company in Shimamaki Village on the west coast of Hokkaido Island.

On the upper-side of the hill, there is a hotel that has a Sweden-style sauna and a art museum on its premises. For the size and population of the town, many art museums are there because the town produced Japanese famous artist Mr. Kinjiro KIDA. The wind of art is blowing in the town with the smell of the ocean.