After Japan's snowy city in Sapporo, Hokkaido, we take sometime to wind down in the snowy countryside of Biei, Hokkaido and experience a ryokan near the mountains.

(We stayed in Shirogane Onsen town at two different ryokans)

The nature we visited was Shirogane Waterfall and Shirogane Blue Pond

The 'flower field' we went snow rafting (800 yen/$6), snow mobiling (1,200 yen/$9), and to see the alpacas (500 yen/ $4) were at Shikisai No Oka.