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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 had changed. aside from the ski resorts, sapporo was my first city… when did we […]
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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: otaru and sapporo terrain: flat & urban, fresh/packed snow, sub zero temperatures style: mostly small steps […]
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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 size. quite different from the butadon ippin in sapporo as the sauce was smokier and […]
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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 person but sometimes you want something with a little bite. being sapporo and all, macrobrews […]
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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 month of our stay in japan but all of those meals had been at either […]
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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 our airbnb was. they’re a chain restaurant that used to have locations in the usa […]
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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 when you can eat three bowls of rice and not have to think twice about […]
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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 supermarket was missing the star ingredient…no vermicelli. Pasta it is. We even managed to […]
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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 the northwest, kiroro sits on the edge of the sea of japan so it was […]
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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 good terrain and is easily accessible from the city by bus. we stayed in the […]
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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 minutes after I took this photo. Notice a bunch of guys standing along the rail […]
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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. favourite meal a. chicken karaage + mapo tofu in sapporo. mind blowing karaage. it was […]
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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 we decided to look for some chinese options that included rice, sauce and some form […]
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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 and myself no longer have and will be searching for when we return lol for […]
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Made it back to Sapporo today and by chance on the way home from dinner, we pass the cat cafe I was hoping to get to before. So serendipitous! Jojo took one for the team and visited the cat cafe with me after taking a Reactine. Everything in the cafe was cat themed, including the […]
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We are in Sapporo mainly for the snow festival which usually takes place in early February every year. Just a heads up, if you intend to attend a snow festival in the near future, make sure you dress warmly! This year’s showcase sets are pretty amazing and we thoroughly enjoyed the Attack on Titan themed […]
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away from the madness in ramen alley and off on it’s own in the susukino area is ramen shingen. it was about a 20 minute walk from the airbnb we were staying in, to the east of the river but it was a good day to stretch out the legs in the sun and relatively […]
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On a random quest for the Hello Kitty store, we spotted bunch of girls waiting in line for these photo booths. I now know what I would look like if I got plastic surgery. Add some double eyelids, elongate my nose, become white like Michael Jackson….
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