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Onuma Park (大沼公園) 2019, Part 1

At Hakodate Station I caught a local train heading north and got off about 12 miles (20 km) later at Onumakoen Station. For the rest…

After passing through the area around Motomachi Park I kept walking northwest into the part of Hakodate that is towards the northern slope of the…

When Hakodate was opened to the rest of the world a number of foreigners moved in to Motomachi and set up several churches in the…

A narrow road off of one of the main streets in Motomachi leads up to Funatama Shrine. Snuggled between a school and some homes on…

On my first morning in Hakodate I spent an hour or so wandering around Motomachi, the neighborhood where my AirBnB was located. Motomachi is located…

Welcome to Late to the Party, a series in which I discuss video games that I’ve finally gotten around to playing. Today I’m going to…

After spending a little time down by the harbor I marched up to the Mt Hakodate ropeway station and rode the gondola up to the…

Sorry for the long delay since my last post. Don’t worry, I didn’t catch the COVID. What’s kept me away from this website is that…

Eight years ago today my first trip across Europe began. For three and a half months I wandered all across Europe, starting in London and…

Once I finished up at Yamadera Temple I got on a train back to Sendai Station where I quickly transferred to another train that took…