Nakatono 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 ...

... time, we went back to the hotel for showers and changes of clothes. A friend of the Yamanka's travel agent came by and treated us to a night on the town. He was the owner of a mexican restaurant in Sapporro (who knew?) and took us there to eat. After that we went wayyyy out into the boondocks to a public bath. Though we had been to several traditional hot baths, this was the first public bath we ...

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 ...

... government has begun to have cultural consideration in decision-making and projects. This whole dam incidents became a trigger for the movement. Now, there's a museum showing Ainu traditional lifestyle, culture and people. I watched the video of 'Kumaokuri (gods (bears) sent off)". It was like when I watched the bull fights in Spain. At the beginning, I felt disgusted killing an animals... but after learning why they do this, seeing how they do this, I ...

... know more tomorrow - especially after visiting the beer museum. Bye for now, us x

... person in our cabin did not show up and we had a little room to spread out. Most of my waking hours were spent in the observation cart that offered nice seating and a good view. In the observation car, I played games with my fellow JSAPers and enjoyed my SEIYU bento box. I even got to enjoy a little bit of the new Superman movie in Japanese. I cant say I slept too terribly well on the train, but I did enjoy myself. Today I learned something about cultural commonalities and the ...

... great the toilet was, I couldn't help thinking 'Mike, this is a really inopportune moment. 5mins earlier and you would have found me harmlessly passed out'. I seriously thought he was going to go off his nut, but he just looked at me and then the bin, saying "just empty the bin out. I don't want the room smelling of upchuck". I wasn't expecting Mike to be so easygoing. Perhaps he was still euphoric from the experience with the toilet. I must have dropped off about when Dave got back.