Hakodate

The service was very friendly even with the language barrier! the toilet was the fanciest I had seen yet with seperate settings for male and female, how funny! My room was more traditional than all of my other accommodation sites and the most comfortable, Then in the middle of the night it snowed and snowed! :-)

Mission to Sapporo

January 6th 2007
I made a late start to my journey to Sapporo and by doing this found that I had run out of time and couldn’t make it the whole way. I stopped off at Sendai for a few pictures, then caught the next Shincansen train to Morioka, I had a quick look around the main town then headed off to Aomori. I didn’t feel like hanging around there so hopping off the train was a bad idea. I caught the very next ... read more

Asia » Japan » Iwate » Morioka

In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more

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