Towada-Hachimantai National Park

Towada Visitor Center Guide

Welcome to Lake Towada Visitor Center!

We begin our journey in spring and summer

Great Spotted Woodpecker's Nesting Behavior

Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker Nest/All Kinds of Eggs/Japanese Rat Snake Has its Eye on Eggs/Brood Parasitism by Lesser Cuckoo

Cicada-hunting Yellow Hornets/ Yellow Hornet-hunting Honey Buzzards

Squirrel Nesting Behavior

Japanese Horse Chestnut and Western Honey Bees/Western Honey Bees and Asian Black Bears

A Jack-in-the-Pulpit to Die For/A Change from Female to Male for the Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia/Two Flower Types for the Deer-cabbage

Learn more about the mushrooms

Remains of Chewed Young Beech/The Winter Survival of Japanese Aucuba

Common Goldeneye/Mallard/Common Pochard/Common Merganser/Mandarin Duck/Tufted Duck/A Change of Plumage Before Proposing

Wainai Sadayuki and Himemasu

To enjoy the unique nature and culture that surrounds Lake Towada