Shikotsu-Tōya National Park is located near Sapporo in the southwestern corner of Hokkaido.

[1] The park can be divided into roughly three areas according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment: There is also an area around Jōzan-kei (定山渓), Hōhei Gorge (豊平峡, Hōheikyō), and Nakayama Pass (中山峠, Nakayama-tōge) and anarea around the hot springs of Noboribetsu (登別), Orofure Pass (オロフレ峠, Orofure-tōge), and Lake Kuttara (倶多楽湖, Kuttara-ko) considered separate areas by others .

[3] 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,[4] as well as Yezo sika deer and Ezo red fox.

[1] It can be reached via Chitose, Hokkaido city airport and via shinkansen from Tokyo.