Hokkaido is north of Japan. Japan have 4 big islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Sikoku, Kyushuu. Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto are is Honshu, Honshu is biggest island in Japan.
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Hokkaido is big island, but population and economy is not big. Hokkaido remain great and attractive nature.
Hokkaido have indigenous people, name is "Ainu". Japan have 2 kind of ethnic group. one is Japanese, other is Ainu. Ainu is small population, so some stateman belive that Japan is single ethnic group country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people
After Honshu Japanese started to emigrate Hokkaido About 150years ago, large Japanese live there and invaded Ainu and Ainu culture. I think Ainu culture have already lost in Japan. Many Ainu people married to Japanese, and mixed to Japanese. Only a few people can speak Ainu language like a native speaker. Some people try to introduce Ainu tradition...
I went to Conveyor belt sushi. We don't need order menu, because sushi food come automatically. Do you know this system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt_sushi
Mata-ne!