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Day 10 – Down to Sendai
Getting the Hayabusa shinkansen down to Sendai takes a few hours, and we take it easy for the rest of the day. We basically eat three dinners.
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Day 9 – Hakodate sightseeing
An ambitious expedition to visit both Goryoukaku fort and Mt Hakodate in one day. Learnt that those tanks outside everyone’s houses are indeed for kerosene! Used for heating, which is foreign to us because we’re so used to using gas back home Kujira steak, it’s not bad. Kinda like kangaroo in a way Goryoukaku was…
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Day 8 – Snow crab for breakfast
First thing: wake up. Go out in the snow to get to the markets. Eat a whole crab for breakfast, 8000 yen each (he’s a really big crab).
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Day 7 – to Hakodate
I take back what I said about it being fast, it takes the best part of six hours to get to Hakodate today. Mostly because it’s so far south and there’s no straight line directly there from Sapporo, it’s a big curve around Uchiura bay.
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Day 6 – Merry Christmas, Christmas Tree
We’re going out today to see a Christmas tree. Yes, a singular one.
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Day 5 – to Asahikawa
We’re to spend the next couple of nights in Asahikawa, and boy does it snow properly there! By the time we arrive and get checked-in it’s getting dark, meaning another dinner before 6pm. A lot of things are closed so we’re a bit stuck for options at this point. We make the trek a couple…
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Day 4 – Otaru daytrip
Now that we’re in Hokkaido-proper it’s quick to travel around. Otaru is practically an outer suburb to Sapporo, just under an hour away. I only took a few shots on the Delta 3200 but now I want to shoot colour, so I’ve loaded up the Velvia. I’ll re-load the Delta later and finish it off…
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Day 3 – Sapporo food
Today is a take-it-easy sort of day, food and relaxation. Lots of food. And I bought some 7800 yen worth of film. The meat being grilled in the later photos is “Jingisukan” style – a rough lexical approximation to the name we know as Genghis Khan. Unexpectedly we got to meet up with Elena and…
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Day 2 – Night lights in Sapporo
Took the trains all the way to Sapporo, the route has improved a lot since I was last here and it’s now a fair bit quicker, especially across the Tsugaru Strait from the mainland. Being winter and a fair bit further north, the sun is already weakening by 4pm and the snow hits us hard.…
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Day 1 – Arrival in Tokyo
First time flying into Haneda, it’s pretty great. You miss out on the Come On And Slam, And Welcome To Japan at Narita, but sacrifices must be made. Adrian arrived yesterday, same flight one day earlier. Honestly it’s a bit of a rocky start as we’re all a bit on edge emotionally (couldn’t sleep on…
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