Chisan Hotel Sapporo

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Today we were unable to go to the lavender fields like we had planned, so we improvised. Sapporro being the beer capital of Japan, we headed to the beer museum. Fascinating though it was, we were still below Japan's drinking age and therefore felt a little left out of the festivities. The beer museum was adjacent to a crazy huge shopping mall and we needed some lunch, so we decided to head in. We grabbed some ...

We emerged from our miserably long train ride exhausted, groggy, unshowered, and...freezing?! Apparently we were farther north than we had realized. Our second problem involved a the time. We stumbled out of the train station at around 630 am. Our hotel check-in time was 4 pm. We were able to dump our bags at the hotel, but we had to find somewhere to go for the next several hours. We grabbed some ...

... 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 ...

... many stories about the summit such as meeting other groups of indigenous peoples, struggle for coordinating the event, joy of the success, etc. I felt their passion, and I felt great starting to know about such great people. The next indigenous summit will be in Canada next summer. Hopefully I can participate in the event next year. Takashi kept telling about the importance of the education especially for younger generations to learn about multiculturalism and ...

... and I laughed and listened to the rest of the rules: 1. 10:30pm curfew, EVERY NIGHT 2. You must change your name plate from red-blue every time you leave/enter the dorm (so the 'dorm mom/dad,' as we affectionately came to call them, know where you are) 3. No men allowed, unless it's your father or brother. Even then, they have to stay in the lobby. 4. Take your shoes off at the door, and place them in your specified shoe locker. 5. Breakfast from 7-8am, and ...

... has grown from these humble beginnings to become one of the biggest and most well known of Hokkaido's winter events. In the afternoon, we arrived in Sapporo. The first place we had been to was the Hokkaido University. Trees covered by snow. Everywhere was white! Very beautiful! Along the way, we met a friendly Japanese girl (Luly is her name ...

... which all blossom at the same time! Even in Tokyo, concrete metropolis that it is, during Hanami you can barely walk around a corner without being shocked by the pink beauty of a blossoming sakura! But, with Hana-mi, there often comes a feeling of sadness, or melancholy. Sakura bloom for such a short period of time really; from the first cracked bud, to ...