Japan-Korea 2017 Began Three Years Ago Today!
Three years ago today my first trip across Japan and Korea began. For six weeks I wandered all across both nations, spending four and a…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2017 Began Three Years Ago Today!
Three years ago today my first trip across Japan and Korea began. For six weeks I wandered all across both nations, spending four and a…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2017 Began Three Years Ago Today!
One year ago today I got on a flight bound for Tokyo and began the journey that I’ve been writing about for the past several…
Continue reading → Japan-Korea 2019 Began One Year Ago Today!
From Moerenuma Park I took a bus back to central Sapporo to grab my backpack and head for the airport. On my way to Sapporo…
Continue reading → Sapporo 2019: Leaving Sapporo (and Japan)
I had a bit of time in the morning before I departed Sapporo and I decided I’d take a bus out to Moerenuma Park at…
Every year in September there’s a food festival held in Sapporo called Autumn Fest. During the festival Odori Park is filled with vendors selling food…
Having returned to Wakkanai, I found my rental car in the ferry terminal parking lot and started the long drive down to Sapporo. My car’s…
I woke up the next morning to heavy rain outside the hostel. Back when I was in Nikko I had seen on the weather satellite…
Continue reading → Sapporo 2019: When the typhoon caught up to me
For dinner in Sapporo I went to a restaurant called CoCo Ichibanya. A friend of mine who used to live in East Asia highly recommended…
Continuing my journey north, I took an afternoon train from Hakodate up to Sapporo. Currently the shinkansen line doesn’t extend to Sapporo so the ride…
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…