New Sunroute Sapporo

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... were a quite underwhelmed. Once again, probably due to a lack of our own intoxication. Oh well, we had fun anyway singing the "irish drinking song" game from "Whose Line Is It Anyway."
The night ended back at the hotel, and we just decided to take it easy. I think we're all getting pretty tired of living out of backpacks and sleeping on trains. Speaking of trains, we have an early one tomorrow so goodnight all!

... been to. Unlike our small hotel showers, however, this bath had a sauna. I've been to several saunas, especially when I was Sweden. I enjoy them usually, but this bad boy was in a league of its own. The thermometer on the inside ready 90 degrees. Celsius. That's a balmy 195+ degrees Fahrenheit.
After the death-defying, stroke-tempting brush with the sauna, we headed home and beaded down for the night.

... the bridges near the monument in Hiroshima.
Then, this just reminded me of the Issey Miyake's article on the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/0 7/14/opinion/14miyake.html

I've never been to Hiroshima yet.
It's not to blame someone now. It's a history, but there are many histories that shouldn't be forgotten... not only these nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

... existence and contributions. A small town of Nibutani (Biratori) still has many populations of Ainu. At the bus stop, I was asked where I came from from an older lady. I said, "Hawaii". She just told me "thank you for coming all the way from Hawaii. It must be really cold here for you". It's summer, but yeah, it was a bit chilly for me. Next summer I hope to come back to Hokkaido and drive around, and I'd like to talk to more people. I am already looking forward to it!

Apres Sapporo nous avons passe 2 jours a Otaru, ville de pecheurs, qui a prospere grace a l'industrie du harengs. De nombreux entreports anciens bordent le canal et le bord de mer. C'est aussi une destination populaire pour son domaine skiable en hiver. On pouvait voir encore de la neige sur les montagnes autour et on visualisait clairement les pistes ...

... sudden change of altitude combined with so much physical exertion. *Note to self:start working out before you climb Mt.Fuji next summer!* Once we made it to the summit, the exhaustion I felt from the ascent quickly disappeared as we looked out over an endless sky of clouds and beautiful green snow-capped mountains. It was definitely worth it! Although I maybe wouldn't pick something like this to do again on my birthday, in retrospect it was a pretty cool way to ...

... nice however, we passed by the sea for most of the journey, mountains dominated the other side. The train was ridiculously hot though. It was a relief to get out the other end. We got straight into our next train also ridiculously hot and spent a further 3 hours getting to Hachinohe through the tunnel to the north end of Honshu. The lack of leg room in the train started to hurt my knees. At ...