Otaru

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To me, the attraction here was the array of food & pastry and, of coz, the Music Box Museum.

There were lots of places around for main meals and tea breaks. And, not forgetting, delicious pastries to buy home to treat everyone. We had even found a confectionery that was better than Ishiya's Shiroi Koibito. It's "Le Tao". It had a few branches at Otaru targeting different needs, such as a a chocolate boutique, cheesecake speciality store etc. Le Tao was also very generous in providing samples. Tip: Ask and you will be given. Their earl grey chocolate biscuit and petite chocolate strawberry were a few I tried and really like. It was a pity I could not bring a lot of them home (coz of cost, weight & short expiry period).

Music Box Museum was more of an emporium than a museum. Coz there was a whole big segment dedicated to selling goods and a comparably much smaller place in exhibiting music boxes. Nevertheless, I was still intrigued by the music boxes on display.

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Photos

Taking Group Photo @ Otaru Canal
Japanese love doing this for memory's sake

Music Box Museum
choose a music piece to play

Music Box Museum
An emporium of ready-made & DIY music boxes

Music Box Museum
Lots of choices for shoppers

Totoro & friends @ Character House
right next to the music box museum

Comments

[AdelaideBen]

Otaru
Otaru's definitely a good place to visit out of Sapporo... my wife and I have done 4 trips out there over 7 years of travelling to Sapporo. It's a bit touristy and commercial, but it's a nice day out regardless.