Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
We stayed at the Vessel Inn Sapporo Nakajima Park for seven nights: not the longest we’ve ever spent in a single property – the record belongs to our eight night stay at Pegasus Apart’Hotel in Melbourne 2016 – but it’s
There’s a huge number of hotels that operate in Tokyo – not surprising of course given that it’s a huge city – and the prices of stay range from very budget capsule hotels to five-six star properties commanding obscene heaps
Continued from the last post! This post will cover Days 08 to 15 of our trip. Day 8 (Shikotsu-Toya National Park) Lake Shikotsu (1 hr+) [blog post here]: our tour bus allocated just 30 minutes here for us – not
Like the 11 day work-related trip to Japan in September this year, the preparation for this 15 day family trip was quite labor-intensive. Google Maps was heavily used and for the most part proved reliable, though there were a few
Truth be told; we made two fairly large mistakes in planning for our itinerary. The larger of the two was making a major itinerary change – i.e. making Hokkaido instead of central Japan our main focus – after we’d bought
We’d opted for a late afternoon departure from Hokkaido back to Tokyo. We’d done so because in the earlier versions of the itinerary, we’d be spending just one evening in Hakodate, so maximising the amount of time we’ll have in
Motomachi is the port-side district in Hakodate that looks most un-Japanese. The area is extremely popular with visitors, but possibly in part that there were varying degrees of snowfall for the afternoon, the area wasn’t as crowded as other spots
Our last substantial day of visitations this trip, before we make our way back to New Chitose Airport tomorrow for the flight back to Tokyo, and the day after that, the SQ flight back home. We found this place –
And finally, our last stop for Day 12: going up Mt. Hakodate for what’s regarded as one of Japan’s top three night views of its cities. Nicknamed “Glimmering Jewellery Box”, it sure looks it. The view from this mountain surpasses
Up the 107m tall Goryokaku Tower next – the only easily accessible way to see the five-point star-shaped former fort of Goryokaku. The park seems ordinary on the ground, but viewed from above, it takes on a completely different perspective.
Day 12 and we’re headed to the last leg of our trip – the port city of Hakodate. Our original plan was to spend a night in this city, but now that we’d added an additional night, we have quite
Whoops. Why were we visiting a cemetery…? Well, for starters, this was the only other place of interest to us in the area, so we included the place – ostensibly as an ‘optional’ place to visit after Takino Suzuran Hillside Park
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