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My friend took me to the Moerenuma Park (http://www.sapporo-park.or.jp/moere/en glish.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 this place was just for garbage dumping... and the city of Sapporo decided to have a nice park here.

We had a nice lunch at "Yuuhi ...

... funny how they always used pictures of women to sell beer, a mostly male product), and also some tastings. We paid 400 yen and had 3 beers to taste, we both prefered the Sapporo classic, giving the Sapporo black an unfortunate thumbs down. Afterwards we headed next door to the Biergarten , which was modelled on a German beer garden (originally beer was brought to Japan by Germans) which served the Hokkaidan speciality ...

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

... now) and we are getting ready to head out and do some exploring. I have never been to Sapporo before and Hana has not been here since she was a child. It will be interesting to see what we will find. When we arrived last night, Sapporo looked not much different from any other large Japanese city -- lots of concrete and sprawl. Hokkaido is one of the prefectures in Japan with a lot ...

... 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 sample of barley (raw and roasted). We also got to smell the hops flower (hops is supposedly what gives the beer its aroma and bitterness, plus it acts as a bacteria killing agent. The Dai Nippon Brewery Company used to manage the Sapporo, Asahi and Yebisu beers until it was split into separate breweries after WWII. We got to see ...

... Park. In Sapporo, I paid a visit to not only the festival venue, but also Old Government Building, the Clock Tower and Sapporo Olympic Games venue. I also visited a glass-making factory in Otaru. I went there with my uncle and aunt and it was the first and last time to travel with them.