Wandering Vegans

Tag: snow

  • Last day in Kisarazu

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    Our apartment inspection went quickly with no troubles apart from being told that some items we had put in non-burnable rubbish were actually burnable. Eww too much rubbish incineration. During the inspection it started to snow. After dramas at the post office trying to post our stuff home (they wouldn’t accept our suitcases so we…

  • Celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary in Sapporo

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    Coming all the way to Hokkaido, Benno wanted to visit an Ainu culture museum. Ainu are the indigenous peoples of Japan, the last remnants live in Hokkaido. The Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center, Pirka Kotan, was at the end of a subway line followed by a 40 minute bus journey. We got on a number…

  • 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…

  • Nagano-ken Snow Monkeys

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    After the first day of skiing we went to a local onsen to soothe our muscles. But after 2 days of beginners skiing it was time for a break from sore knees, shoulders, ankles, cold toes and fingers. We caught a couple of local buses from Hakuba to Nagano and beyond to the Jigokudani Monkey…

  • Skiing in Hakuba

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    As the train ride went higher north and into the Japanese Alps we started seeing snow covering the houses and rice fields. By the time we reached Hakuba it was heavily snowing, everything covered in a couple metres of snow and several degrees below zero. It was totally magical to see snow (and in such…

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