When travelling, I love trying to get off the beaten path. So when the opportunity to travel to Wakkanai Hokkaido, the most northerly city in Japan, arose I was happy to yes to the adventure. While not visited by a lot of foreign tourists, Wakkanai is well-known for a quite a few reasons. First of all, it’s home to Cape Soya, the most northerly point in all of Japan and just 40km from the Russian Island of Sakhalin. It also the