Kitamura Onsen Hotel
Travel Blogs from Iwamizawa
The Long Wait Ends
September 12, 2012
Hello Folks,
Here we are in Nippon and our trip is off to a great start. The plane ride was a long one (14 hrs Toronto-Tokyo) and our total travel time, home to hostel in Sapporo, was about 23 hours.
I think most of the passengers on our flight were veterans of this route. Within an hour of take-off at 2pm all the ...
Day 2
We woke up around 7 a.m. and had some of the groceries we picked up. It was definitely octopus jerky that I picked up, but it wasn't bad. From after that mini-breakfast we headed downtown. There was some cool stuff along the way that I took pictures of. We immediately entered what seemed to be a club district, which was pretty dead since it was about 11:00 am. It was cool to see multi-level buildings with about 30 clubs in each of them, though. Bar ...
Day 1
I safely arrived in Japan and am having a great time so far! Narita airport was not as culturally different as I thought it would be, and neither was Chitose airport in Sapporo. We spent barely any time in Narita, but we'll be back in Tokyo soon enough. One thing I thought was funny was at Chitose, as we were pulling in, the ground crew was all lined up along the side of the plane and as soon as we ...
At Shall we sweets with Mao and Moe
... wanna meet her. Then, suddenly she told us she would leave
for a call for a few minutes as she told us the reason which was super funny;
apparently she wanted to email her friends with some photos of her and her
friends with really crazy faces attached, but she accidently email it to her
boss at work LOL. That was why she wanted to call him for an apology. While she
was ...
To Sapporo on Peach Airlines
We decided to skip the breakfast at the hotel, to make sure that we could get to the airport on time for our maiden Peach flight. We got to the airport without much trouble. Peach airlines checkout counter was not opened yet so we had our breakfast first. The thing about Japan is that food and drinks in the airport are at NORMAL price . We ordered our breakfast with this vending machine and immediately the cook whips a hot breakfast .Rice and meat with a raw egg which ...