Sapporo

  • looking back at sapporo

    i’m trying my hand at maybe my last ‘regular’ series of posts… to look back upon the cities that we’ve stayed in this trip and to compare that to our first day to see how our opinions of the city…

  • the many walking styles of asia

    location: niseko terrain: resort town with fresh snow and high winds style: slowly, usually with our heels slipping out from under us resembles:    location: rusutsu terrain: hotel lobbies and designated trails to the uploading lift style: upright resembles: location:…

  • weekly recap #5 – sapporo and tokyo

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. sapporo (same airbnb), tokyo (3 night sairbnb in shinjuku) q. favourite meal a. butayaro. they have one item on the menu, all you have to do is pick your…

  • craft beer in sapporo

    i miss a lot of things from home and at the risk of sounding like an alcoholic, beer is definitely on that list.  i love an icy cold sapporo after a day on the mountain as much as the next…

  • the mother of all tonkatsu meals

    esta shopping center, like all shopping centers in japan, has a restaurant floor so we walked up there to look at our options.  there’s soup curry, okonomiyaki, ramen, chinese and tonkatsu.  we’ve had our share of tonkatsu over the first…

  • pork bowl lunching at butadon ippin

    this was our first meal in sapporo for this leg of the trip and haha was looking for a donburi place.  butadon ippin is a pork rice bowl chain and they had a location just down the street from where…

  • weekly recap #4 – sapporo

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. sapporo (university district) for 1 week, extended to 11 nights q. favourite meal a. crisp tonkatsu with equally crispy cabbage and three kinds of rice.  dericious.  even more dericious…

  • 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…