Final day in Hokkaido

Whoops forgot to hit Publish on this yesturday... was pretty outa it when I wrote this due to lack of sleep:
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So todays my final day on the island of Hokkaido. Yesterday visited the Sapporo Beer museum as well as the city of Otaru.

The Sapporo Beer museum was smaller then I pictured it, but not too bad. Most of the signage was in Japanese but I got the gist of it. My favorite bit was these little models they had setup that made it look like beer came from a Santas workshop type atmosphere. Made me chuckle and reminded me of the Simpsons episode where they go to the Duff Brewery theme park. The tastings they had were relatively cheap, and the actual grounds was very nice. Some pretty cool restaurants, went to one where the middle of the tables were actually hot plates to cook your own food... I had lamb was quite tasty, once i figured it all out.

Otaru is a pretty neat little town. From the looks of it before the war it was quite a bustling place, major financial institution and some pretty wealthy families that made fortunes off of the herring industry. Nice canal type area thats been made into a park, and seems to do a lot of business with Russia, everything was written in Japanese, English, and Russian.

Finished up the night back in Sapporo, went to a pretty cool Sushi bar that had a great view of the city, then went to a bar called the 500 Yen... the idea is everything is 500 yen but prices have apparently gone up a bit. Pretty trendy spot tho, although didn't stay long since I was pretty tired from walking around Otaru.

Thats it for now, tomorrow off to probably Morioka and check out the capsule hotel thing.

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