hokkaido (2020) in pictures: sai-ko japow with a side of gyu katsu
after my first snowboaridng trip to hokkaido, i knew i had to get back there so the four of us (efka, gleb & simon) organized a two-week trip together to pop their japow cherry. with a toyota hi-ace minivan and…
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…
life in japan as a gaijin
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…
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…
getting our onsen on at hoheikyo onsen
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…
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…
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…
