is a national park in the western part of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. Named after the volcanic caldera lakes of Lake Shikotsu and Lake Tōya, it has a total area of . The popular hot spring resorts of Noboribetsu, south of the lake, and Jozankei, north of the lake, are also within the park.
Geography
Shikotsu-Tōya National Park is located near Sapporo in the southwestern corner of Hokkaido.
The park can be divided into roughly three areas according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment:
- The Mount Yōtei area
- The area around caldera Lake Tōya, Mount Usu and Mount Shōwa-shinzan (Tōya Caldera and Usu Volcano Geopark), new volcanoes which had risen from the plain as a result of successive eruptions since 1944.
- The area around is encircled by active volcanoes such as (1,041 m), and (1,320 m ).
There is also an area around , , and and an area around the hot springs of , , and considered separate areas by others .
The nearest town is Shikotsu Kohan, a small "touristy" town with a visitor center on the lake's western shore, which can be reached by bus.
Flora and fauna
The park contains mixed forests of Ezo spruce, Sakhalin fir, Mongolian oak, Japanese elm, Siberian dwarf pines and alpine plants such as Labrador tea and blue mountainheath. Animals include brown alpine hares, Hokkaido squirrels and Japanese deer, Japanese scops owl, black woodpecker, spotbill ducks and tufted ducks, as well as Yezo sika deer and Ezo red fox.
National park installation
The area became a national park on May 16, 1949. As of 2024, there are buses from Shin-Chitose Airport and Chitose Station to Shikotsuko Kohan.