Waiting for the Drift Ice Kitahama Station on the JR Senmo Line is known as the closest station to the Sea of Okhotsk. It's an unmanned station with only about 20 users per day, but when the drift ...

This past winter, as in all earlier years, drift ice (also called ice floes) descended on various sections of Hokkaido’s northeastern coast facing the Sea of Okhotsk. The city of Nemuro saw the ...

A rescue flotilla, consisting of inflatable dinghies, motorboats, and helicopters, was dispatched to intercept the group before the ice could drift too ... when the Sea of Okhotsk freezes.

ABASHIRI, Hokkaido—The yearly drift ice spectacle upon the Sea of Okhotsk was first observed from shore on Feb. 15 as slabs of ice neared the coast here. With this winter's tours now able to ...

Tourists are flocking to Abashiri City in Hokkaido Prefecture to marvel at the countless ice floes drifting through the Sea of Okhotsk. The phenomenon started about two weeks later than usual ...

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