Tag: New Chitose Airport
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…
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…
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…
Aomori/Hirosaki Diaries: Apples Galore
Right after a three day weekend, we have another three day weekend in September! This time, Sunday the 22nd is the Autumnal Equinox, but because it’s a Sunday, we get the Monday off in exchange. I took this opportunity to make a short trip to Aomori, because I love apple treats. September is also apple…
Tokyo/Sapporo Diaries: Back to Hokkaido Life
Heading back to Japan from America means that although you “gain” a day going there, you essentially “lose out” on time coming back, so even though I wanted to be back on Monday Japan time, that meant leaving Saturday evening in America. June 8th: Although my flight was technically at 1am on June 9th, that…
Sapporo/Tokyo Diaries: A Quick Trip Home
I took a brief trip home to America a bit ago to attend my sister’s high school graduation! Because America’s school year and Japan’s are just slightly off, it does kind of fall in the middle of regular work here. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event though, and I figured even just a quick trip back…
Tokyo/Sapporo Diaries: Back to Hokkaido
Here’s Part 2 of my winter break trip! This post is about the return trip back, starting from my flight to Haneda Airport, then to New Chitose, and going home from Sapporo! The break felt long but short at the same time… My flight was a little before midnight on January 6, and this was…
Sapporo/Tokyo Diaries: Airport to Home!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I went home this holiday season, and though not doing actual city exploring, I did spend quite a bit of time at airports and in airplanes, which is still blog adjacent for anyone that is interested in New Chitose or Haneda airport! I took a bit of a break…
A Guide to New Chitose Airport (Sapporo, Hokkaido)
I say Sapporo, because Sapporo is Hokkaido’s biggest city, and New Chitose is associated with it being 40 minutes away by train, but New Chitose isn’t actually located in Sapporo proper (like how Tokyo Disneyland isn’t actually in Tokyo, but in Chiba). That aside, I’ve taken quite a few trips to and from, and in…
Tokyo Diaries: Obon Weekend Part 1
Typically, mid-August is Obon season in Japan, and I believe this year Obon was actually on August 16th. What exactly is Obon? I’ve heard that it’s like “Japanese Halloween”, not in the costume and candy aspect, but more so in the “dead” part – Obon is a celebration to honor dead ancestors, and typically Japanese…