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Sapporo Diaires: 2025 Snow Festival
This year, the Sapporo Snow Festival was from February 4th to February 11th. It only included one weekend this year, and my parents came from America to come see it and spend some time together! From there, we took a short trip to Hiroshima! Here’s the Sapporo part of the trip. February 7th: After getting…
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Sapporo Food: Genghis Khan
For whatever reason, mutton barbeque is a famous dish in Hokkaido, and goes by the name “genghis khan”. Apparently, while there are restaurants everywhere offering it, usually the locals won’t go. Instead, it’s more common to eat it at home, or maybe for a special occasion. In fact, when I went to see the sakura…
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Otaru Diaries: Cells at Work Movie and Snow Miku hunting
On Februrary 1st, I went to see a movie in Otaru! We love a movie discount day, and I was hoping the live action Cells at Work movie that came out in December would still be playing in theaters by the time a discount day rolled around. Luckily, it was! Time for my first weekend…
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Things to do in Sapporo, Hokkaido
At the time of writing this, I’ve been in Hokkaido (and Japan, really) for just a little over two years now. Wow, time flies! From time to time, I try to make a trip out of town, and most of my outings are to Sapporo (check out my Sapporo Diaries!). Since I don’t actually live…
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Airport/Sapporo Diaires: Traveling ANA from LAX to Sapporo and Afternoon Tea
I came back to Hokkaido on January 19th after spending three weeks at home in America with my family! It was nice being home and spending time with family and seeing friends, but I definitely go too into vacation mode January 17th: My flight was technically at midnight on January 18th, but in reality, that’s…
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What to eat in Sapporo, Hokkaido
As a subcategory in the “What to do in Sapporo” post, here’s a list and compilation of things and places you have to go eat when in Sapporo! I’ve previously written a few posts going over Sapporo’s famous food and places I recommend. This list will link to those posts, as well as other places…
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How to Survive Winter in Hokkaido
It’s peak winter in Hokkaido right now! Japan gets pretty hot (and humid) in the summer, but also gets pretty cold in the winter. Winter in Japan means snow piles up fast in the north, and falls in the southern areas too. As someone who’s survived 3 Hokkaido winters now, I think I’m pretty qualified…
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Airport Diaries: Flying Sapporo to Tokyo to Los Angeles for the Holidays
Happy holidays! On December 26th, I headed home to America to spend time with my family for the holidays! Although ideally I’d like to spend Christmas with them as well, for whatever reason my school calendar decided the last day of school this year needed to be Christmas on a Wednesday. Whatever, Christmas is a…
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Sapporo Diaries: Cells at Work Shopping
On December 14th, I went out to Sapporo for a last casual outing this year. Scouring the theaters for merchandise for the new Cells at Work live action movie that came out the day prior. Some last minute shopping. I’m hoping the movie is still playing on a discount day when I get back from…
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Going to the Movies in Japan
Going to the movies in Japan is not revolutionary by any means, but there are some slight differences in movies here. I thought I’d write a post here about these since I’ve been to a few movies during my time here!
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