Abashiri city is a tiny city on the north-east coast of
Hokkaido.
Abashiri located by
Okhotsk Sea (which is located between Russia and Hokkaido. The sea is named
after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East).
In winter, this sea is covered with sea ice (drift ice). This sea ice occurs when the cold air freezes the surface of the sea. It ranges from 10cm to 1m thick.
In the drift ice that appears only in winter, there mysterious creatures living there, that looks like angels, they called – Clione クリオネ
they appears when drift ice comes along the coast of Hokkaido and disappears as the drift ice decreases.