Asahikawaso
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Day 3
... to capture on my camera. We drove through a
large agricultural region afterwards, which had many cute-looking
scarecrows (there are a shitload of crows in the places I've been so
far!). We took a quick pit stop just outside of Asahikawa and grabbed
a snack at a mini-market.
Shortly after our pit stop, we arrived in Asahikawa. We had a hard
time finding parking because we weren't really sure where we could
park until we passed ...
Biei and Furano: Japanese Farmer Chic
... foreign passport you can a free cable care ticket (regular is 1800Y), which makes it extremely worthwhile.
Instead of the ropeway, I headed directly to the winery. Actually, the grape juice factory that supplies the winery. The grape juice factory is very barebones with basically no English information (when I asked for English information, she pointed to the map of Furano I had in my hand). But I did learn that they make white and red grape juice from ...
Mountains and Waterfalls
After weeks of preparation (mainly by Obachan) we made it to the mountain set to climb. Asahidake is an active volcano and the biggest mountain in northern Japan. Emily was probably more excited about the excuse to eat Gumi than climbing to the summit. Bit of a cloudy day which cleared up every so often but unfortunately after 80% up we couldn’t ...