Wandering Vegans

Tag: sapporo

  • Shinkansen -it’s the only way to go

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    We got up early and signed out of the hotel, caught the subway to Sapporo station and got on the limited express to Hakodate. Three hours later, we transferred to another limited express train to Hachiohe, through the tunnel under the ocean connecting Hokkaido and Honshu. Then we caught the Shinkansen down the eastern side…

  • Day 3- Skiing at Teine

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    Today was actually a national holiday, the 11th Feb is Japan National Day. So, the other restaurant that we wanted to visit was closed, as was the Ainu museum. Lara suggested visiting Otaru and the Sea of Japan but Benno wanted to go skiing instead. The closest site with lots of beginner runs was Teine.…

  • Day 2, -1.7 degrees in the daytime

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    First thing we headed down to Odori Park for some ice skating. Ice skating is fun! Especially when it only costs 200 yen for skate hire. We got interviewed by two groups of school kids doing a kind of “city week” project. They had to talk to us in English and ask us questions like…

  • 61st Sapporo Yuki Matsuri- Odori site

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    Odori Park in the middle of Sapporo runs along about 12 blocks and was filled with snow statues. We started at block 11 and looked at all the International Snow Sculptures. 15 teams from around the world competed in the 37th contest, including teams from very non-snow countries like Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore. NZ was…

  • Sapporo Yuki Matsuri

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    We hopped off the train on Tuesday morning and headed for the tourist office in the station. After collecting some maps we helped test some translation software for the tourist office. We were asked in Japanese “What will you eat today?”, and Benno replied in English “vegan food”, which it heard as “big and third”.…

  • The overnight train to Sapporo

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    On the road again! This time we were headed to Sapporo, Hokkaido for the annual Yuki Matsuri (Snow Festival). Sapporo is 1054km away from Tokyo (about twice the distance of Kyoto to Tokyo), so the local train was out of the question given than we only had 5 days of holidays. So we booked the…

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