Loisir Hotel Hakodate

Sunday, we finally went ashore to Hakodate, Japan. It felt so good to be firmly on terra firma. We did a bit of sightseeing and shopping. It was a very clean Japanese town. Hope all is well at home. Also, due to the typhoon, we will not be going to Tokyo. Instead we will spend the extra time in Kobe. Cub has put ...

Just the deep blue SEA!<br><br><br><br>This is our fifth day on the high seas, and we are about 1704 nautical miles from Seattle. We should arrive in Hakodate, Japan next Sunday, Oct 4.<br><br>So far our Pacific voyage has been interesting. We were all so worried about Cub being well during our journey, but it turns out ...

Our train chugged in to Hakodate around noon. The sky was overcast and the weather was chilly. The only thing on our schedule was a castle where the samurai had their fabled last stand. After we went there and tramped all through the mud trying to find something interesting in the castle, we were stumped. And then it started raining. We retreated to the gift shop where we hid out waiting for the rain to stop before we tried to run to the bus stop. It did not ...

Hai Hakodate! Hakodate (pronounced Hack-o-dah-tay) is a lovely port on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. It is famous for seafood. Isn't it interesting though that this simple word 'seafood' can mean different things depending on your culture and upbringing. For Brad and I, looking forward to 'seafood' kind of (naively) meant "we'll have some prawns, calamari and hot chips next to the sea. Ok, throw in some crab legs and a wedge of lemon ...

We've stayed about 1 week on Hokkaido and went to 4 different places. The first one was Toya-Ko, a volcanic area with some smoking mounts. The last eruption happened in 2000 from Mt. Usu, an active stratovolcano. This national parc has splendid sceneries and was very interesting, but we wouldn't really want to leave there knowing that a volcano could wake up anytime ! After that, we headed to Sapporo where we met the rain and even some ...

Nous avons passes nos derniers jours sur Hokkaido et le nord du Japon dans la baie d'Hakodate. Nous avons loge dans une petite auberge tenue par un couple de 60 ans qui tient le magasin de crabes au coin de la rue ! Saito-San a fait en sorte que nous nous sentions bien chez elle et nous a donne toutes les informations necessaires pour visiter sa ville. On voit qu'elle a l'habitude et surtout qu'elle aime faire decouvrir sa ville ! L'apres-midi de notre ...

So the night train is a little bumpy and little noisy but I got some sleep. Awoke to the first station in Akita at 6AM. The station was cloudy, rainy and cold...not a good sign. Tried to get some more sleep, but did not happen. Instead ended up sitting in the corridor as the other elderly passengers were staring out the window. And somewhere around 8AM, the sun came out and the scenery between Akita and Aomori became really nice. It's a funny thing--the rural nature and ...

I travelled through the world]s longest under water tunnel to get to Hokkaido. The scenery was awesome on the journey here. I only had one day in Hakodate but it was a pretty good town from what I saw.. There is a lovely waterfront area with a fleet of squid boats lined up. The squid boats have rows ...

apres 4 heures de train, dont 30 min danss un tunel de 58km sous l'ocean! je suis arriver a haakodate en hiver. Aceuilli par des flocons de neiges intensement soufles par le vent, le contraste avec les plus 30 degre d'okinawa il y a 5 jours est tres grand! Hakodate est la premiere grosse ville sur l'ile de hokaido. mais les hotels cheap sont rare, je me suis rive le nez a deux hotel fermer pour l ...

We are finishing up a couple of days in Hakodate, a middling-sized port city at the southeastern tip of Hokkaido, Japan's large north island. We began our stay with a visit to the large fish and produce markets. We were quite taken by the displays of seafood, particularly the many types of crab. There was lots of live squid and scallops as well. We then made the climb to the series of small peaks that tower over the town. Pleasingly wooded ...