Hokkaido
Geography by Amanda
What do people do
on this island?
Some of the biggest special things are
the Sapporo snow festival, Hokkaido shrine festival and the Lilac
festival in Odori park. A lot of people chop timber. There are
many people who come to visit Sapporo. The main occupations on
Hokkaido are dairy farming, fishing and wood things. Two
under-ground shopping centers (Pole town and Auroa town), are
very popular in winter months. And in the Suskino area they have
over then3,000 bars, restaurants and over night inns. In Hokkaido
they do timber, fishing, mining, farming and they get coal.
These pages prepared by second grade students - 2002