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# Hokuto

The Hokuto (北斗) is a limited express train service that runs between Sapporo and Hakodate in Hokkaido, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company.

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## Every way there

- Search from wherever you are; the planner compares train, bus, ferry, flight and road.

The field note

What is in and around Hokuto, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Hokuto has

- Y Scheduled flights Makinohara / Shimada (FSZ), 117 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 515 timetable feeds for this country, 99 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

35.835°, 138.396°

The journey time of the Hokuto is approximately 3 hours 40 minutes.

How locals move

## Getting around Hokuto the local way

- Go next Features 2 chairlifts and a gondola as well as a rental shop.

From [Wikivoyage: Hokuto (Hokkaido)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hokuto_(Hokkaido%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2025-03, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokuto_(train%29), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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