During the winter Japan becomes a wildlife watchers and wildlife photographers paradise and the wonderful winter wildlife is the main focus of this trip, firstly we visit Hokkaido where we will spend time watching the regal courtship dances of the Japanese cranes before visiting the wintering whooper swans on the caldera lakes in the volcanic lands of Shiretoko National Park. But also in Hokkaido we will take cruises out of both Rausu and Abashiri (Abashiri in a ice breaker) where…