Betsukai
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About Betsukai
Betsukai (別海), often read Bekkai or Bekkaicho is a town in Nemuro subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Betsukai travel guide
Understand
The town's major industries are dairy farming and fishing in the Sea of Okhotsk. It also claims to be Japan's second-largest town -- in area. (With a population of just 17,000, it's pretty far down most other lists.)
Tourist information site The local tourist association has a Japanese-only guide site with integrated Google Translate.
Getting there
The closest stations are Shibecha or Attoko station by JR Hokkaido.
Eat
1 Betsukai Milk House (㈱べつかい乳業興社), ☏ +81 153-75-2160. Ice cream, yogurt and other dairy products made from the local free range cow milk. (updated Apr 2019)
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.