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…
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Hakodate 2019: Northwest of Motomachi
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…
Hakodate 2019: The Churches of Motomachi
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…
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…
Hakodate 2019: Walking around Motomachi
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…
Hakodate 2019: The view from Mt Hakodate
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…
Hakodate 2019: Arrival in Hakodate
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…
Matsushima (松島) 2019
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…
Yamadera Temple (山寺) 2019
On my second day of sightseeing from Sendai I started with a visit to Yamadera Temple. From Sendai Station there are hourly trains heading west…
Hiraizumi 2019: Chusonji Temple (中尊寺)
My second and final piece of sightseeing in Hiraizumi was at Chusonji Temple. Chusonji is Hiraizumi’s most popular attraction and like the rest of the…
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