Enjoying Hokkaido’s famous soup curry at Garaku Chitose Branch

22 August 2023 Our plan for our arrival day in Hokkaido is simple. Collect our rental car from Toyota-Rent a Car at the airport, check into our hotel, savour one of Hokkaido’s local cuisines during dinner and rest early. I did not fancy a long drive after picking up our rental car at the airport and chose to stay in Chitose instead of Sapporo as it is only a 5 minutes drive from Hokkaido’s New Chitose...

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Hill of the Buddha, Easter Island Moai and Stonehenge

29 August 2023 I figured that our long drive from Obihiro to Otaru, via Sapporo, using the Hokkaido expressways would be too boring without a pit stop at a Hokkaido attraction. Just before reaching Sapporo, we took the exit at the Kita-Hiroshima interchange and did a 25 minutes (17 km) detour to the Makomanai Takino Cemetery, located in the southern outskirt of Sapporo city. What could we be seeing...

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Yabuhan Soba in Otaru for lunch and Soup Curry in Sapporo for dinner and everything else in between.

31 August 2023 After the Nikka Distillery Tour and whisky tasting in Yoichi, we arrived back in Otaru train station at about 1 PM. We managed to get the last locker at the Otaru train station to dump the loads of whisky we bought at the Nikka distillery before heading out for lunch in Otaru. Lunch at Yabuhan Soba We walked about 5 minutes to Yabuhan Soba. There was a short queue at this well-known...

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Exploring Sapporo – Odori Park, Sapporo Beer Museum and shopping at Tanukikoji Street and Sapporo Station.

1 September 2023 The plan for the day was to explore Sapporo in a free and easy manner, do some shopping at Tanuki-koji Street and have dinner at Susukino. I had some interesting sights mapped out on Google Map, such as Odori Park, Sapporo TV Tower, former Hokkaido Government Office, and Sapporo Clock Tower. After breakfast at the Gracery Hotel, we took a short walk to Odori Park. Sapporo is easy...

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