Seafood for breakfast? When it’s this fresh, of course! With Goryokaku Park and Mt. Hakodate the night before, I was already thoroughly satisfied with my time in Hakodate. I planned to leave Hokkaido by ferry and cross the Tsugaru Strait to go back to Honshu, but before leaving I couldn’t say no to another serving […]
After seeing Mt. Hakodate from Goryokaku Tower, I headed out there to get a view of the city on the isthmus below. My plan was simple: go out there and get a good spot for when the sun goes down. But as this is one of the top three night views in the world, the […]
Hakodate is located on the southern peninsula of Hokkaido and the terminal point for the new shinkansen that connects Hokkaido with Honshu. I had changed here the other day and worked my way back down after a couple of nights in Sapporo and Otaru. My plan was to return to Honshu via ferry from Hakodate […]
About 45 minutes northwest of Sapporo by train is the small port town of Otaru. About 100 years ago it became a point of trade for Hokkaido with Russia and the United States, the easternmost part of Russia being just across the Sea of Japan. Due to this very practical reason several western style warehouses […]
Now it’s time to go to Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan and largest prefecture. It has a culture all of its own, one of myth, of legend and, of course, delicious food. I took the recently opened shinkansen that connects the main island of Honshu to Hokkaido under the straight of Tsugaru. From Tokyo […]