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Sapporo Slideshow
Sapporo
Travel Blogs from Sapporo, Japan
McDonald's
... little dogs dressed up in stupid clothes, hundreds of crows, and kids playing by the lake. It's a huge park complete with the Sapporo Concert Hall. An amazing building. It was then off to the Sapporo Beer Museum but first we stopped by 3 temples and ...
Sapporo, jewel of the north
... is a lot colder up here, pretty much like in Germany, and it is not as crowded as in the southern parts of Japan. I have to try the sushi here. Sapporo is supposed to have the best sushi of Japan. In a food market I checked out the fish. You can get some ...
Sapporo Brewery and Mt. Moiwa
... ; There were many pictures of Canadian wheat farms -- no doubt these pictures were from Saskatchewan. Sapporo even has buyers and quality control people from Japan in the field in Western Canada. It was really interesting to learn that Sask ...
Sapporo Beer Museum
... were provided but only in Japanese and every sign in the building was only in Japanese too. There was a floor outlining the history of Sapporo Beer, a floor with old posters, and a floor with a shop and bar. The tasting bar. I ordered the 3 beer sampler. ...
Jet lag in Hokkaido
After 24 hours of airports and airplanes we finally arrived in Sapporo late yesterday evening. I cannot describe to you how relieved we were to get here and lay down after being up for 24 hours straight. We left Regina at 9:00am on Aug. 17 and ...
Shikotsu-ko
... at least to a JR railway station where we took a train back. Then we went to one of the most famous sushi-restaurants of Sapporo (Bishu Sushi) which is not far from our guesthouse. It probably serves the best sushi in the world. It is expensive, but worth ...
Leaving Sapporo
Today we will be leaving Sapporo and heading to Sendai en route to a final destiantion of Matsushima Bay tomorrow. Mrs. Kawamori has made an incredible breakfast spread for her family and the western guests. The Kawamoris enjoy a greens salad, tuna ...
Snowtastic Sapporo
... leaves from. Again, despite seeming to have plenty of time, i left things till the last minute and was lucky to get the Ueno - Sapporo night train, or maybe i just timed it perfectly. Either way, the next 16 hours i will be stuck on a train. There were ...
Snowtastic Sapporo
... leaves from. Again, despite seeming to have plenty of time, i left things till the last minute and was lucky to get the Ueno - Sapporo night train, or maybe i just timed it perfectly. Either way, the next 16 hours i will be stuck on a train. There were ...
Snowtastic Sapporo
... existent, so the conversation was laboured in parts, but still killed some time, especially discussing Tenngenerate. Day 169 - Got to Sapporo just after 9 in the morning. Headed around some of the snow and ice festival sights, then checked into the ...
Sapporo
... . What with that and the lingering cold we still have it's not been that great for her but we're getting by. We both love Sapporo as a city, it's very flat and new and fast growing. Had a good look around during the day, rested mid-evening and then out ...
Sapporo Dome and trying to stay awake
... . Hokkaido is well-known for its ramen -- some of the best in the world. Normally, I'm quite satisfied with dried Sapporo-Ichiban noodles at home but I will say that the soup that we had today was 1000 time superior -- no comparison. ...
Schneefestival
... , japanisch Unterricht, Dartabend oder Onsen. Helen, von der Skischule hatte für den heutigen Abend einen Bus nach Sapporo reserviert. Wir fuhren zum 59. Snowfestival in Sapporo. Im Bus gings schon voll zur Sache und der Flachmann wurde durch die ...
Sapporo - 1st Day
... . We take a short taxi ride to the center of town and head into a building with a giant animated crab over the entrance. Sapporo and Hokkaido in general is renowned for its seafood so we are looking forward to the meal very much. Despite the silliness ...
To the capital of the North Island
... come earlier because apparently its massive, but certainly a bit quieter than normal. Ino's House was amazing, friendly and very helpful. Sapporo brewery is a must, free entry and magnificent beer! Went to the zoo and saw Tigers and Lions being fed, mad!! ...
Sapporo-Tomakomai-Tsuruga
Sailing amidst the roaring ocean is a great experience yet so risky.It is the road less traveled. The beauty of the ship is worth-remembering yet the best month to travel is summer ...
powder in the land of the rising sun
... a 90 min ride on the 'limosine bus' to the domestic Haneda airport, and then finally, a 90 min flight to Sapporo, the biggest city on Japan’s northern island: Hokkaido. A trip to Northern Japan in the winter, Riley? Truth is, I’d come hoping ...
Day 22 - Sapporo
... European, although the smoke stack freakishly resembled a Russian missile silo. It even had a bright red star (Sapporo Beer's icon) on it (Communists? In Japan?). Despite the free museum tour being in Japanese, Mike and I tagged along and got to try a ...
Jan 27, 2009
Sapporo, Japan
We left for Asia on Tuesday night (9/12) at 11pm from JFK airport and arrived in Sapporo Japan on Thursday (9/14) at 3:30pm. The overall travel time was ~28 hours (!!!) with the time difference being 13 hours ahead of EST. We were a bit worried about ...
Wichtiger Fluss, der durch eine Ebene fliesst.
... der umgebende Garten noch offen, auch wenn natürlich noch nix ist mit Blüten oder so. Danach folgte der Glockenturm von Sapporo, eines der Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Das Gebäude war ursprünglich eine Landwirtsschaftsschule, die grosse Uhr kam erst später ...
Historical Village
... schlecht vom Bahnhof zum Skigebiet, keine Karten von den Ortschaften verfügbar etc.) nutzte ich meinen letzten vollen Tag in Sapporo, um mir das historische Dorf von Hokkaido anzusehen. Das ist etwas das gleiche, was ich mir schon in Takayama angesehen ...
Happy Birthday To Me!
... of Happy-Birthday-email/messages[on fb] from my friends even tho I got old. Since it was my birthday, I went to Sapporo station with my parents to get my mum to buy some outfits for my birthday. She bought me lots of dresses,a pair of jeans ...
Honshu to Hokkaido
... the hotel after this which we did, got shown to our room, which Kate had arranged for us and had a massive view over Sapporo! (seen below) working in a hotel herself we figured she has connections! Katy headed home then and after bludging for a few hours ...
Isamu Noguchi
My friend took me to the Moerenuma Park (http://www.sapporo-park.or.jp/moere/english.php) where a famous Japanese-American architect/designer, Isamu Noguchi designed. He's famous for those Akari series lights (you can see these at IKEA often). I heard ...
Sapporo Trip
... 't figured out how to recharge it. But I've got enough on it to travel around for a few days. I went directly to Sapporo station and wandered around the shops. The Loft here is so much smaller than the one in Omiya... there's probably another one ...
Drinking in Sapporo
... hungover. We went to karaoke (drank a lot!) and then the dedicated people and I went to the dodgiest nightclub in Sapporo, Booty. Yes it's really called Booty. But that's not my story, in the morning when I got home (7am) I broke my ...
The 100 Yen Post
We're in Sapporo now and it's absolutely amazing. However the hostel is charging ten yen per freaking minute to use the internet - which adds up to roughly $10 AUD an hour. So there won't be any further posts until we reach Tokyo again in another three ...
09.-11.02. Snow Festival, Onsen und Schneewandern
... hart, sehr schlecht geschlafen. 10.2.: Vergeblich Bus von Sapporo zu gebuchter Skitour ins Rutsuku Resort gesucht - Verzweiflung und Alternativprogramm: Sapporo Beer Museum und mit Bus in ein Onsen - relaxed. 100 Yen Shop 11.2.: Wandern Mount Moiwa, ...