HOKKAIDO (ANN/THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN) – In summer, I joined a bike tour on a 70-kilometre section of the route that straddles 12 municipalities in the region. The tour aimed to reach the 1,139-metre-high Mikuni Toge mountain pass, which lies at the northern end of the Tokapuchi 400, passing by two lakes. Tokapuchi 400 is a […]