Is it possible to travel the route Kamchatka-Kurils-Hokkaido alone at the end of Sept-Oct?
I would like to travel, alone, Kamchatka-Kurils-Hokkaido at the end of Sept-Oct. I speak Russian and have done quite some extreme travels before. Most of the sites refer to the non-Hokkaido route:
- Vladivostok-main land Japan;
- Sakhalin to Wakanai (Hokkaido).
They indicate that the ferries stop sometime late summer.
Is the route from Kamchatka to Japan via Kuril islands possible?
There should be occasional ferries/fishing boats from Kamchatka to Severo-Kurisk, other Kuril islands all the way to the Yuzhno-Kurilsk and then to Japan.
I was in Shiretoko in the winter and saw that many Russians come there somehow.
But how, is it only during the summer?
Best Answer
The best I can figure there is not a route of any ferry that goes Petropavlovsk ? Kurils ? Hokkaido.
It is possible to hop a ferry from Petropavlovsk ? Vladivostok ? Korsakov (Sakhalin) ? Hokkaido using Sasco and Heartland Ferry but the schedule for both stop on September 30th.
According to another article Sasco provides ferry service to Kurils which is confirmed by Sakhalin Region Transport Ministry and it runs year round from Sakhalin. The ship stops at major Kuril islands and runs weekly in the summer and every second week Oct-Feb. There is an exact timetable on the website of the Ministry, see above, but it is in Russian. The Kamchatka's corresponding ministry doesn't provide any additional information on the subject.
You also could call up Petropavlovsk's Port to find out if any of the ships actually go your route and can take you on board but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Can you visit the Kuril Islands?
To see the entire archipelago, a small ship cruise is the answer. This can travel the length of the Kuril Islands, from Kunashir to the Kamchatka mainland, docking or using a Zodiac RIB to get you on shore.Which chain of islands archipelago run between Hokkaido and the Kamchatka Peninsula?
The Kurils form an archipelago of more than thirty mountainous islands situated in a curving line running north from Japanese Hokkaido to Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, enclosing the Sea of Okhotsk and occupying an area of 15,600 square kilometers.The Far East country's easternmost point, the border with Russia (Hokkaido,Japan), Japan trip
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