Furano

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Introducing Furano

Famous for its lavender fields, delicious melons, excellent skiing and the late-July Heso Matsuri (; Navel Festival). If you’ve been pining for a place where you can strip off your shirt and have a scary traditional mask painted onto your torso before you go revelling, you’ve come to the right festival. Tobiiri odori (‘jump right in’ dancing is part of the fun; as with sumō, it helps to be heavy.

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In case you’re scratching your head trying to figure out the connection between this town and belly buttons, it’s because Furano is in the geographical centre of Hokkaidō: the middle.

Last updated: Feb 17, 2009

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  1. Glenski avatar
    RE: Cool & Safe Places to Visit in Japan. Help!

    by Glenski 24 July 2011

    FWIW, Furano in mid Hokkaido was very nice yesterday. Prime flower viewing time, too. Go early in the day to avoid traffic jams. Very…
  2. angell1063 avatar
    Re: Snowboarding late April in Japan

    by angell1063 05 March 2011

    You'll need to go to Hokkaido. Look into Skymark Airlines and Air Do for cheap tickets to Hokkaido. (I'd fly to Asahikawa and go as north…
  3. tj_rex avatar
    Post Snowboarding Culture Hit

    by tj_rex 26 January 2011

    Hi all! Thanks for all your activity in this forum, its been *really informative* reading through some of the posts... I am going up…

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