First JR trip - Saporro to Hakodate

Neat little angled houses with Japanese gardens, metal roofs (with ladder access and centered drainage), and often glass covered entrance ways. Beautiful seashore route with many tunnels (some of with have brief breaks in the middle when you can look it at the ocean and cliff side) through the mountains, and occasional streams. Industry and a few neat harbors.
Interesting concrete shapes used in break walls: hollow triangles, donut-like, jack-like (like the game pieces almost), and odd cube type complex jack shapes.
.... Learned about ordering bento boxes at the station or when you first get on the train (due to limited amount as well as selection and wait time to "prepare"/possibly warm, get from a stop along the way???).
.... Trains also have an odd/fairly significant pressure change as entering tunnels.Læs mere