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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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two months in japan have flown right by and i’m ashamed to say that i’ve picked up very little in the way of communicating in the native tongue. there’s a plethora of gaijin (foreigners) in tokyo and haha and myself are added to the list of them that stand out like a sore thumb. the […]
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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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Last Monday we decided to check out Hoheikyo onsen. The main attraction for us was the authentic East Indian food served onsite. Yes, we make all decisions with our stomachs. We get our onsen and bus tickets from the info centre and head over to the main bus station for the 11am Kappa Liner express bus. […]
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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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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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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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