Sapporo

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Sapporo Cat Cafe

    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…

  • Tale of Two Snow Festivals

    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…

  • ramen shingen in sapporo

    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…

  • Japanese Photo Booth

    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…

  • Sapporo Miso Ramen

    We arrived in Sapporo right before dinnertime. Our Air BnB place is across the river, about a 15 minute walk to Susukino’s ramen alley. We managed to find a ramen restaurant with 5 free seats. The ramen restaurants are all…