Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

[Breaking News]Steam locomotive in Hokkaido

KUSHIRO, Japan, Jan. 15 Kyodo - JR Hokkaido's "Fuyu-no-Shitsugen" (Winter Wetland) steam locomotive runs in Kushiro on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Jan. 14, 2026, for a press preview three days before going into service for the general public. The sightseeing train will operate in the Kushiro Marsh, a Ramsar site, mainly on weekends until March 15. (Kyodo)

E

Steam locomotive in Hokkaido

JR Hokkaido's "Fuyu-no-Shitsugen" (Winter Wetland) steam locomotive runs in Kushiro on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Jan. 14, 2026, for a press preview three days before going into service for the general public. The sightseeing train will operate in the Kushiro Marsh, a Ramsar site, mainly on weekends until March 15.

E

Steam locomotive runs through Kushiro Marsh in winter

TESHIKAGA, Japan - A steam locomotive runs through the snow-covered Kushiro Marsh in the town of Teshikaga in eastern Hokkaido, Japan, on Jan. 18, 2014. The locomotive on the JR Senmo Line began operating to attract tourists in winter. The Kushiro Marsh is the first Japanese marshland registered under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

E

Hokkaido aims to lure tourists from Thailand in spring

KUSHIRO, Japan - Newspaper journalists and others from Thailand enjoy canoeing around Kushiro Marsh in eastern Hokkaido on April 23, 2013, as part of an experimental tour to attract Thai tourists to Japan's northernmost prefecture in spring.

E