Farewell Japan, hello Korea! Today was a transit day so not much to report. We caught the train to Sapporo’s New Chitose Airport (something of a misnomer as there is no “Old Chitose Airport”), checked in and proceeded to sit on our butts for many, many hours. Half […]
A day trip to Lake Shikotsu has us climbing the hills! Greetings fans! Today was our last full day in Japan and since we haven’t done a decent 10km hike in a while, we thought we’d take the bus down to Lake Shikotsu (Shikotsu-ko) and go trekking through […]
Hokkaido’s capital is hip & happening! We caught our final long-distance Japanese train today, from Hakodate to Sapporo (Hokkaido’s capital). Today’s train journey was by far the longest in terms of duration (3.5 hours to travel the 382kms – there are no shinkansens in Hokkaido, only the […]
We’re moving on to Hokkaido for our last few days in Japan folks…. We’re down to our final few days in Japan, which makes us sad…but we’re off to Hokkaido Today, which makes us happy! Hokkaido is Japan’s Northern-most island, and, despite being the second largest island in […]
Remote and eerie Osore-zan… We awoke this morning, after a great night’s sleep, to an eerie, thick bank of fog – a fitting start to the day given we were going to Fear Mountain today! Our adventure for the day took us to the Shimokita Peninsula. This remote, sparsely […]
Wandering Soles 