Royton 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 ...

We emerged from our miserably long train ride exhausted, groggy, unshowered, and...freezing?! Apparently we were farther north than we had realized. Our second problem involved a the time. We stumbled out of the train station at around 630 am. Our hotel check-in time was 4 pm. We were able to dump our bags at the hotel, but we had to find somewhere to go for the next several hours. We grabbed some ...

... mieru (you can see sunset)" restaurant.
Oh, YUMMY!

This park also has this crazy fountain... the water goes up as high as 25 meters.

I could learn a bit about Isamu Noguchi today.
His father was a Japanese guy, and his mother was an American teacher.
Once his father knew his mother was pregnant, he went back to Japan.
Isamu was raised by his mother mostly in Japan, and ...

... 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 ...

... relaxing and inspirational place. From the gardens we got on our bikes and made our way over to a place called Sapporo Factory. It's basically a large, enclosed mall with all of the usual global retailers that you can think of (ie. Gap, Eddie Bauer, Toys R Us, etc...). Is it just me or are these global retailers basically boring beyond belief? Talk about the promotion of mono-culture! When one is on vacation ...

The kick out time of the hostel was 10. I woke up at 9.50 got my stuff organised and was out at 10.10, no shower. Many of the hostels in Japan have a shower time, not allowing you to use the showers at any other time. This hostel had a shower time of between 5pm and 10 pm which was typical. The lonely planet book that had warned me of the hostel being noisy I found this not to be the case though and had a reasonable nights sleep. Another annoyance about hostels in Japan was the curfews ...