Kitaguchi Hotel Kitami
5-8 Kitagojo Nishi Kitami, Abashiri, Hokkaido, 090-0045 , Japan
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Akan National Park 1: Mashu lake and Iozan
... off the plane at Memanbestu airport, all that ennui dissolved. And it wasn't some pastoral effect of the airport or the large tracts of farmland around-though it helps not to have 1970s style concrete apartment block on top of 1980s apartment block about you. It was entirely due to the weather. Southern Japan (Kyushu and Yakushima) was hot and sunny, and humid (but a bit better) with the ocean winds. In contrast Kyoto and Nagoya were humid and hot (highs were 35C) ...
Windy Day at Lake Akan
... impressive. It reminds me a lot of the Native America art back home.
We made a stop at the Pan de Pan bakery too. Definitely the hot spot in this town. That's where the most people were. It is the off-season after all I guess. They were all decorated for the Christmas season and they were playing English Christmas songs. It felt very homey. Amazing sweets, equally amazing atmosphere.
We checked out the ...
It's my birthday!
... very unexpected. They got me 2 cakes (1 chocolate, 1 angel food), a novel on cassette, a snowman that sings twinkle twinkle little star, some cookies, and some dessert shaped erasers. I'm very grateful I've met some great people here already!
We drove out to Lake Onneto and went hiked up to Yunotaki Falls. There were only a handful of people there unlike the other two times I've been there when there has been hundreds of people around. It ...
Lake Onneto
... hiked through the bush if they weren't around. I made it to the waterfall and it wasn't as spectacular as I imagined. But it grew on me. It is the only place in the world with live magnesium growths. It's a hot spring waterfall so you can bathe in them and the water is quite nice. It was definitely worth the hike! There were five information signs (in English too) regarding the waterfall and all the research that is going on there. The growths only got discovered in 1989. Very interesting ...


