Unusual Airbnb Listings
While browsing through Airbnb listing for Tokyo this morning, I came across some interesting listings. The above listing is in Tokyo. $25 per night for a completely unfinished unit, what a deal! Fuzzy photo of umbrellas is not really selling…
First Home Cooked Meal
I miss cooking. Have not puttered around the kitchen for more than a month and I really miss it. Plus we need a break from eating out. We had planned to make the spicy vermicelli dish from Delicious One but…
the infamous kiroro migration
talk about a hectic morning. last sunday was our checkout from sapporo and checkin at otaru however the snow forecast had a sizable dump coming to all of the coastal mountains around sapporo. as the winds were coming in from…
a lazy sunday at sapporo teine
prior to our recent otaru stay, we ventured back to sapporo for two nights and one of the motivating factors to come back to the city was so i could make a daytrip to teine. i’ve heard that it has…
Snowy Beach
Snowy beach seems to me to be an oxymoron until I witness it from the train on its way between Otaru and Sapporo. It still won’t tempt me to go into the freezing water like a surfer I spotted 5…
weekly recap #3 – asahikawa, sapporo, otaru
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. asahikawa for one night (fujita kanko washington hotel), sapporo university district (airbnb) for two nights, otaru for four nights (smile hotel) that we just extended to six nights q.…
Step by Step Thru Otaru
I step out of the hotel this morning and was greeted with sunshine. So nice to see blue skies for once. Despite the sun shining almost blindingly bright, there was still little flurries of snow falling from the sky. It…
i feel like chicken tonight
it was haha and my first night back in sapporo and we were looking to get something different into our bellies. i woke up that morning in asahikawa and told myself to start cutting down on deep fried food so…
the yakitori sendoff from sapporo
this post is a little overdue as well. about two weeks ago, our travel companions and fellow powder hounds from new zealand and vancouver were packing up their bags to return to their homes and careers. both of which haha…
from asahikawa to furano in search of the great dump
so with our asahikawa trip coming to an end and plenty of lounging around, i wanted to make the most of our trip up to the region that claims the ‘lightest powder on the island’. we were 8 days into…
