Surrounded by Three Oceans

Hokkaido is also a location where the northern and southern oceans meet, including the Okhotsk Sea known as the southern limit for sea ice, the Sea of Japan whose warm Tsushima Current brings heavy snowfall and the Pacific Ocean where the Kuroshio Current from the south meets with the Oyashio Current from the north. Each of these major oceans acts as a conduit transporting a rich bounty of marine resources directly to the island of Hokkaido.