Asahikawa Travel Guide

As a city, pretty boring overall.  It's got some shopping as any decent sized city would have.  Otherwise it has the zoo, but overall, it's a pretty regular zoo in terms of the animals it has, so not worth going to especially unless you're really into zoos.  We didn't get a ticket before hand, but we noticed that others going to the zoo had a ticket that paid both for the bus ride as well as the ticket to enter the zoo.  Almost certainly cheaper than paying separately, so look into it.