Otaru Bay Story

Nov 20, 2011 – March 25, 2012

【With multilingual audio system (English, Chinese and Korean) and Japanese local guide, you can discover more different and fun activities that you can do in Otaru. This is the guided tour for both international and Japanese tourists to discover and know trivia of Otaru.】

　This is 1 day multilingual guided tour to Otaru and available for two bus stops at the hotels (Sapporo Park Hotel and Sapporo Grand Hotel) as well as Sapporo Station Bus Terminal.
With multilingual audio guide, you will hear more different and interesting stories through headphones, which are humorously described by nonnative speaker who lives in Hokkaido. That makes everything you experience alive. Also, a Japanese local guide will attend this tour and offer a relaxing and comfortable time with her beautiful voice.
Our sightseeing tour bus will pick you up at Sapporo Park Hotel (nearby the Nakajima Koen Station) and Sapporo Grand Hotel (nearby the Odori Station) where tour assistant with a tour placard wait waits for you at the front desk. Departing from Sapporo Station, we will first head for Otaru City.
Passing the Hokkaido University through the downtown streets, you can enjoy the scenery of Ishikari Bay.
We'll go onto for a pleasant wine tasting tour and visit the historical architecture, which houses the winery Otaru Bine, once used as the central branch of the Hokkaido Bank. Then on to the Otaru Canal, enjoy your free time to explore the streets. It is also important to note that this tour offers Otaru Sweets Coupon featured with the famed sweets shops in Otaru. You can use it for a ‘Marron Coron’ at Otaru-Amatou, a ‘Panjyu’ at Kuwata-ya, a ‘Hanazono Dango’ at Nikura-ya, a ‘Pudding Dorayaki’ at Kagetsu-do and a ‘Cheese Souffle’ at Yakata. Each of the shops noted above represents the Otraru sweets. For lunch, you can enjoy a buffet meal at Grand Park Otaru, which offers mainly Italian, Chinese cuisine, and desert.
After visiting Tanaka Shuzou Brewery where visitors experience tasting, enjoy your free time to explore the unique sweets shops near the Kitaichi Glass and Otaru Music Box Museum where you can breathe a nostalgic air of Taisho Period. Finally, you will visit Tenguyama Ropeway and be escorted to the top of the Mt. Tengu.
From the ropeway you can enjoy panoramic view like a miniature landscape garden of Otaru, And, from the mountain top, you can see Port of Otaru, Ishikari Gulf and even Shokanbetsu mountain range in the distance on a fine day. In the 2009 Michelin Green Guide Japan, Otaru Tenguyama Ropeway was awarded one star. This tour is also convenient for tourists who stay in Otaru because it includes the pick-up and drop-off service not only in Sapporo but also in Otaru.

Itinerary

• ①As the Otaru Bine will be closed on Jan 1st, the stay at the Otaru Canal Bus Terminal is 10:20～11:40.
• ②You can get the sweets coupon for extra 500 yen pay for an adult as well as a child.
  It offers one each of ‘Marron Coron’ at Otaru-Amatou, a ‘Panjyu’ at Kuwata-ya, a ‘Hanazono Dango’ at Niikura-ya, a ‘Pudding Dorayaki’ at Kagetsu-do and a ‘Cheese Souffle’ at Yakata. (The Cheese Souffle will be served frozen)
  
• ③Buffet-style lunch consisting mainly of Italian, Chinese cuisine and desert (70 min)
• ④Tasting after observing the factory (guided tour)
• ⑤Show the bus ticket stub at Kitakaro and get a set of “Hamanasu no Koi” cookies.
• ⑥You can drop off the bus at Mt. Tengu and take a rout bus to the Otaru station bus terminal free of charge with the tour bus stub. ( no extra charge / no drop-off point except Otaru Station)
  ・You can get a free drink (coffee, English tea, chocolate drink, oolong tea and orange juice) at the restaurant on Mt. Tengu.）
• ※Glass Studio in Otaru will be closed from Dec 29～Jan 2nd (not fixed yet). Glass workshop is closed every Tuesday. (Its store is open.) You can get a 10 % discount for the items of Glass Studio in Otaru with the bus ticket stub.
• ※The lunch time may be changed from 12:00 to 13:00 according to circumstances. The arranged schedule is below
  Otaru Canal Bus Terminal（free time ※Use sweets coupons here 10:40～11:35 →Sakai-machi street→Kitaichi Glass, Otaru Music Box Museum and Kitakaro ( free time ) 11:45～12:55→Grand Park Otaru ( buffet-style lunch )→Wing Bay Otaru ( free time ) 13:10～14:35→Tanaka Shuzo Brewery Kikko Gura 14:45～15:15→Otaru Tenguyama 15:45～16:45

Start-day Calendar

Option

Otaru Sweets Coupon offers one each sweet of 5 famed historic sweets shops in Otaru. Enjoy your gourmet walk with it in Otaru. You can get the sweets coupon at the “Amato” for extra-pay. Adult / child: \500 ( one each of ‘Marron Coron’ at Otaru-Amatou, a ‘Panjyu’ at Kuwata-ya, a ‘Hanazono Dango’ at Niikura-ya, a ‘Pudding Dorayaki’ at Kagetsu-do and a ‘Cheese Souffle’ at Yakata.）

Special Notes

• ※Tour will be cancelled when there is no reservation by 18:00 the day before.
• ※Duration of sightseeing may be changed due to the traffic and the number of passengers
• ※Arrival time will be earlier than scheduled time due to the holiday break or the restriction condition of the facility.
• ※Please allow enough time for transfer to the other modes of transport, because buses may be delayed due to the traffic jams or adverse weather conditions.
• ※Tours may be cancelled due to the snow disaster. Please contact us to reconfirm the operation in the event of abnormal weather.