Tag: Sapporo
Hakodate Diaries: Golden Week Sakura
This year, “Golden Week” lands within the peirod of April 27th to May 6th, with a three-day weekend from April 27th to 29th, and a four day weekend from May 3rd to May 6th. This year, intead of using three days of nenkyuu to make it a continuous vacation, I decided to take two mini…
Sapporo Diaires: Parfaits and Demon Slayer Exhibition
On April 19, my boyfriend and I stayed overnight in Sapporo for just a casual stay. Originally, I was just going to go for a day trip on the 20th, but my boyfriend suggested staying the night, and I figured it’d be worth it totake advantage of being there overnight for the extra time. April…
Taipei Diaries: Taipei Zoo, Gongguan snacks, and saying Goodbye
March 29th: A bit ago I found out that the entry fee to the Taipei Zoo costs $2 (after conversion), and that’s a pretty good deal (also Ueno Zoo, whch is 500 yen according to my boyfriend), and my boyfriend and sister had an interest in going, so my dad and I tagged along (my…
Sapporo Food: Ice Cream and Parfaits
Arguably Hokkaido is most known domestically and internationally for their milk. More broadly, the dairy, and even within the prefecture there’s huge pride on it too. Ice cream places will all clearly advertise made with Hokkaido milk, or more specifically milk from a specific town in Hokkaido. I remember back when I came to Japan…
Sapporo Diaries: Kirby Hunting Continued
On March 2nd I went out to Sapporo (yes, two weeks in a row) to do some more seasonal eating, Kirby shopping for my sister, and hopefully some more Starbucks hunting. Part of the inital plan was to try to get one of the Round 2 Kirby Happy Meals, but 1. my sister wanted all…
Sapporo Diaries: Kirby and Starbucks Hunting
Happy birthday to the emperor! Febraruary 23rd was a holiday for the aforementioned reason, so I decided to go out to Sapporo for various reasons. Taking my normal bus in the morning, my first stop after arriving was heading to the Starbucks at Parco to grab the newest seasonal frappucino and also to do some…
Sapporo Diaries: The 74th Sapporo Snow Festival
This year the famous Sapporo Snow Festival was held from February 3rd-11th, and my boyfriend and I chose the second weekend to stay the weekend and hang out and check out the festivities. We decided pretty early on (learning from our lesson last year) that we wanted to stay the weekend to see the sights,…
Sapporo Food: Soup Curry
I’m currently in the process of making compilation guide post to Sapporo like my Otaru one, except Sapporo is considerably bigger (for good reason), and to fit it all in would make it very long. As such, I’ll make individual topic posts for now and them compile them later As the start of my Sapporo…
Sapporo Diaries: A Chill-y Weekend
On the weekend of January 20th, I stayed the weekend in Sapporo, mostly because my boyfriend suggested it in case we had a long bus ride again, and to make our limited time in Sapporo worth it. I just wanted to go out that weekend to hang out after not going out after two weeks.…
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…