Orchard Rendezvous Hotel
At this point in the third week of November, it looks like we will indeed have spent the whole of 2020 in Singapore and not having stepped out for any kind of travel. At the start of 2020, we’d booked
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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Final Notes
Our 15 day vacation in Japan has been the longest family trip we’ve had, and in comparison to the next longest last December i.e. 12 days in Taiwan – this one has been longer by quite a bit! As is
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Hotel Smile Hakodate
Our third and last property of stay for our trip. The initial itinerary from some months back required just a single night stay. We’d be arriving into Hakodate in the mid-afternoon and just to go up Mt. Hakodate for the
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Vessel Inn Sapporo Nakajima Park
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
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Hotel Mystays Haneda
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
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Itinerary Retrospection (continued)
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
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Itinerary Retrospection
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
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 15 – Tokyo and Returning Home
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
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 14 – Hakodate Morning Market Square
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
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 13 – Motomachi
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
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 13 – Onuma Quasi-National Park
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 –
15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 12 – Mt. Hakodate
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
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