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... mieru (you can see sunset)" restaurant.
Oh, YUMMY!

This park also has this crazy fountain... the water goes up as high as 25 meters.

I could learn a bit about Isamu Noguchi today.
His father was a Japanese guy, and his mother was an American teacher.
Once his father knew his mother was pregnant, he went back to Japan.
Isamu was raised by his mother mostly in Japan, and ...

... excited to see another student who's studying about Ainu people. She set up a dinner with an Ainu sculptor and storyteller, Mr. Takashi Yuuki. Also, another student from Indiana, Shingo joined us. They were the members of the Indigenous Summit last year held right before the G8 Summit at Tohya Ko (Lake) in Hokkaido. 23 indigenous groups from all over the world gathered and discussed issues. They submitted a declaration to the participating nations. They told me ...

... had one purpose to get back to Sapporo before the night train and that was to find Ramen alley--there's apparently a new Ramen alley too--but I went with the original. Turns out that Ramen alley has developed into a major tourist attraction. It was 7 at night and there was no one in the alley except a pack of mainland Chinese tourists, arguing about where to have dinner. Apparently, dictatorial governments do not make good decision makers when ...

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 days.

Missing you all,
Tom and Rachael

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 days.

Missing you all,
Tom and Rachael

... a riot, you follow a screen which has all sorts of poses on it. After 4 poses, she says for Reen to get Mark. So, Mark joins us in the booth and we take 4 or 5 more pictures. Afterwards, you go to the other side of the booth and you can write on the pictures with an electric pen. She added all sorts of graphics and words to them. Clearly, she had done this before. We were all laughing at the pictures and having fun. We picked up some pastries for breakfast the next day and ...

That was the first time to take a flight in my life. It was very nervous at the time the airplane took off the ground and I also experienced compressed air in my earhole on the flight for the first time. Sapporo had a snow festival with a lot of snow sculptures and ice sculptures in ...