| Air | The closest airport is the Hokkaido Shin Chitose Airport. Visitors should take trains from there. |
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| Railroad | Take the (JR) Limited Express for Asahikawa from the Hokkaido Shin Chitose Airport, and arrive in Bibai city in about 90 minutes. |
| To Locations inside Bibai | Taxis and buses are available in front of Bibai Station to be used according to destination. |
Hokkaido's Bibai City is located at the northernmost tip of Japan. It is a city with a population of some 30,000 people, about 90 minutes from the Shin Chitose Airport by express train or 40 minutes by express train from Sapporo. Bibai is a place with lots of snow even for Hokkaido, and its people are unassuming. One can see a true lifestyle here, unlike sightseeing with the tourist industry. Please come and visit Bibai, a city surrounded by bountiful nature.
One famous site is the Miyajima marsh, a wetland registered under the Ramsar Convention Treaty, and each year many tourists visit in spring and fall for it is a migration area of the Greater White-fronted Goose. The One-Million Kite Festival in Bibai is held each year at Bibai's farm-road airport, the Sky Port Bibai. A great number of kites large and small fill the sky in a contest of the townspeople's handmade kites, plus examples of performances by traditional kite-lovers, etc.




