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Hakodate 2019: Funatama Shrine

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…

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…

After spending four days in and around Tokyo, I began the next leg of my journey across Japan and Korea. This part of the trip…

While I was staying in Sapporo I took a train out to the coastal town of Otaru. There’s not too much to see in Otaru…

At the east end of Odori Park is the Sapporo TV Tower. As I was walking around Odori Park I decided I’d check out the…

When I first arrived in Sapporo an intense rainstorm was passing through town but thankfully the next morning the clouds had cleared and I started…

A few miles north of Hakodate is Onuma Quasi National Park. It’s called “quasi” because it’s technically not a national park but everyone acts like…

Each day there’s a morning market in Hakodate that runs from about 6am to noon. The market mostly sells seafood and produce and also has…