Shopping in Harajuku, Shibuya, and Ameyoko. Hotspring at night. (naked teehee)... read more

Returned to tokyo, traveled all day from hokodate, Sean died, ate fish. Shared pictures... read more

Left Obihiro for Furano. Checked it out, took train the naka-furano. Found location via map with phone number. ... read more

We went to Sapporo. Jun found us. Sean complained about a bag of food. I got crunk. While sitting outside the Sapporo Terminal we heard a very familiar "Seeon San" (he says my name differently every time he tries to get my attention) coming from a small scurrying creature off in the distance, obviously it was Jun. He was happy to see us and as always, moved around very frantically and hurried, apparently he was meeting a friend near the terminal at 5:00 and didn't want to be late. It was almost 4:00. He quickly directed us to the Sapporo House Youth Hostel, (pointed in the general direction) so we headed out figuring we'd get lost. Only circled the block once or twice before finding the always clearly and largely posted triangle/river/tree youth hostel organization sign ... read more

Took trains to Hakodate. Sean died. Met boss man McCool. Impressed with hotel and price. Christopher went to work on the train schedule today. He earned how to read the japanese rail schedule, which is crazy confusing, and got us all the way to Hakodate without any issues. I was getting dominated by a migraine for the majority of the trip so it really was all him. It was pretty awesome to ride on a double-decker train, it was not pretty awesome to have two very chatty elderly ladies behind me while i tried to sleep off the migraine. I recovered in time for the last train, the one that makes the trek under the pacific ocean to Hokkaido. We were treated to an awesome sunset coming out of the seikan tunnel, truly picture perfect with ... read more