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4. syyskuuta 2016
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Päivä 1
sunnuntai 4. syyskuuta 2016 klo 20.00
🌙 13 °C
Korkeus: 14 m
Australia Alexandra Canal -33.938278, 151.16856433°56’18” S 151°10’7” E
Sydney International Airport
4. syyskuuta 2016, Australia ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Sydney International Airport became very big. Lots of shops and lots of people. Jeff and I might try to get out of Australia from Canberra by going to Singapore next time.
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Päivä 2
maanantai 5. syyskuuta 2016 klo 14.30
⛅ 23 °C
Korkeus: 8 m
Japani New Chitose Airport 42.7752, 141.6922842°46’31” N 141°41’32” E
Shin Chitose Airport
5. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Jeff and I arrived at Shin Chitose Airport this morning. Very tired from our long trip from Canberra. We nearly didnt make the JAL flight from Tokyo to Shin Chitose as Qantas flight to Tokyo was delayed. We went to the big public bath house in the airport complex while we waited for our hotel room to become ready. Also had some nice Balinese massage at the bath house.Lue lisää
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Päivä 3
tiistai 6. syyskuuta 2016 klo 15.28
⛅ 23 °C
Korkeus: 30 m
Japani Chūōkuyakushomae-eki 43.05546, 141.34095643°3’20” N 141°20’27” E
Susukino Area Sapporo
6. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Susukino Area in Sapporo. Jeff and I are staying here for three nights. Jeff is still unwell but feels better than the first day in Hokkaido. I ate katsudon for dinner. Haven't done this for a long time.　

We went to Odori Park this morning. Only managed one picture from the park, which was being prepared for a big Autumn Festival starting on Friday.
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Päivä 4
keskiviikko 7. syyskuuta 2016 klo 21.07
⛅ 20 °C
Korkeus: 18 m
Japani Minami-jūichijō 43.047565, 141.36125643°2’51” N 141°21’41” E
Toyohira River, Sapporo
7. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Nice river running through suburban Sapporo
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Päivä 5
torstai 8. syyskuuta 2016 klo 9.50
⛅ 18 °C
Korkeus: 50 m
Japani Minami-jūichijō 43.023329, 141.36141443°1’24” N 141°21’41” E
Upstream Toyohira River
8. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
I have been noticing at breakfast buffet that everyone serve rice into the rice bowl the same way; an empty rice bowl in one hand, rice scoop thing on the other hand, serve rice in two (or three) scoops. This made me think that someone in their early lives showed them how to do this.I imagine that some of these fellow breakfast eaters might have had less than happy childhood. Rice serving memes are like a symbol on their body. Not an exotic one like the ones in primitive societies that are shown on documentaries, but nevertheless sort of symbols are passed down the generation. Someone told me when I was a child that we service rice in two scoops for the living, serve rice in one scoop for the dead. Just one instance of a young person becoming embodied by the group, and the group embodying the person.Lue lisää
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Päivä 6
perjantai 9. syyskuuta 2016 klo 9.57
⛅ 16 °C
Korkeus: 29 m
Japani Higashihonganjimae-eki 43.052501, 141.35004243°3’9” N 141°21’0” E
Another night in Sapporo
9. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
No trains to Wakanai because of heavy rain. Typhoon approaching from the Southern side of Japan, it's about Sendai now. We cancelled our hotels in Wakkanai and Rishiri Island. Booked Toyako onset (in the south) instead. Today, we are staying in Sapporo one more night. We are not doing much. Just enjoying hanging around the hotel room. We have a nice big hotel room on the top floor. This room is about twice as big as a standard hotel room with a separate sitting area.

The first pic shows a drain from the near by zen temple. Our new house will have a deck almost at level with the ground. I want to implement a drain/ditch that looks like this in the picture with a metal grid as cover to ensure that the house won't get flooded when it rains heavily.

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Päivä 7
lauantai 10. syyskuuta 2016 klo 20.19
⛅ 18 °C
Korkeus: 8 m
Japani Tōya-eki 42.551269, 140.76409842°33’5” N 140°45’51” E
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Lake Toyako, Hokkaido
10. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Arrived at Lake Toyako today on a bus from Sapporo. It's very nice here. Our room looks over the lake. Some pics later. This is an old style Japanese hotel. A little bit shabby but I would say this is shabby chic.

1st pic is from the hotel room, 2nd pic just outside the hotel, the third one is from the hotel foyer. The fourth one is our lunch before we left Sapporo Station. I have been eating lots of slimy food e.g. natto, okra, seaweed etc. I love them.Lue lisää
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maanantai 12. syyskuuta 2016 klo 14.04
⛅ 19 °C
Korkeus: 98 m
Japani Tōyako-onsemmachi 42.563661, 140.81525342°33’49” N 140°48’55” E
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Still at Lake Toyako
12. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
This is our third day in Lake Toyayo. We had breakfast, and sat meditation, and is now about 10am. We have been eating buffet style breakfast here (and elsewhere). We managed to get some nice French stick from a Belgium bread shop while cycling and smuggled that in for breakfast! I guarded my french stick at the toaster so no one ate them.
Now going back to the rental cycle shop to hire bicycles for a few hours again.

First pic is of a retro looking room we have been staying in.

Pics #2-6 are from our bike ride around the lake 43kms in two hours and a bit. We saw some trees blown dowm by the wild wind that went through here recently. My lunch was a delicious plate of vegetables and salads. One of my favorute scenary from Japan is of rice paddies. Saw many of them all with rice ready for harvesting.Lue lisää
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tiistai 13. syyskuuta 2016 klo 17.08
☀️ 18 °C
Korkeus: 120 m
Japani Tōyako-onsemmachi 42.564159, 140.83363342°33’51” N 140°50’1” E
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Toyako onsen
13. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Today we went up Mt Usu. It was pretty wild up on the mountain. At the museum located at the top of Mt Usu, we saw how the whole Toyako onsen town came to be, how it came out of a series of erruptions over many years. The lake is a v big crater which resulted from a massive explosion thousands of years ago. The mountain exploded again at some later point and islands in the middle emerged. There has been two more explosions in the last seventy years, the most recent one taking place in 2000.

I sense that people in this town had collectively made a decision to live with a volcano (a living but resting one) by organising their lives around tourism and careful evacuation plans and evacuation training.

Its very beautiful here. I like it here a lot.
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Juanita Kolaric You look so relaxed!
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I'd love to visit this lake. Touring Hokkaido seems like a very good idea. The only time I went to Sapporo was December, and it had record snowfall. So it was difficult to travel (and very cold).
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keskiviikko 14. syyskuuta 2016 klo 16.20
☀️ 20 °C
Korkeus: 41 m
Japani Otaru 43.190716, 140.99465943°11’27” N 140°59’41” E
Otaru
14. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
We travelled from Lake Toyako to Otaru today. We found this place called Otaru Asari Classe Hotel, which is located in the hills about 30 mins bus ride from Otaru Station on a bus. This place must be pretty busy in winter for skiing.
Otaru is a port city and feels very different to Lake Toyako.

Some pics from Otaru. I liked what someone did with the climber plants.

Received an email about a job interview today.

This place where we are staying at has an outside bath. I had a bath outside in the soft rain. So very nice. For dinner Jeff and I ate delicious sushi. I ate sea urchin for the first time ever. It was nice but I still don't understand why it's such a big deal. Jeff had nice sake.

Day 2 in Otaru. Today we had a 'home day'. We did some laundry, went to a stretch class at the hotel (which was pretty weird), spent some time at the gym, bath and at a restaurant in the hotel. Spent a lazy but a nice day. We both read quite a bit today.Lue lisää
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lauantai 17. syyskuuta 2016 klo 12.59
☀️ 20 °C
Korkeus: 47 m
Japani Sapporo Station 43.068402, 141.3526243°4’6” N 141°21’9” E
Sapporo station
17. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Back to Sapporo Station. Now on train to Asahikawa.
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Päivä 15
sunnuntai 18. syyskuuta 2016 klo 15.47
☀️ 17 °C
Korkeus: 113 m
Japani Asahikawa 43.770842, 142.3648743°46’15” N 142°21’54” E
Asahikawa
18. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Asahikawa feels like the Wild West of Sapporo. There are unusual looking people including an old woman with dyed pink hair with matching pink outfit.

Found a small Nepalese restaurant near the hotel and had dinner there last night. It's much cooler here than Toyako, Sapporo or Otaru. Was 13 degrees last night.

Going to hire bicycles and cycle along one of the rivers that run through the city. It's Sunday today and the middle day of a long weekend.

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Päivä 15
sunnuntai 18. syyskuuta 2016 klo 22.41
🌙 13 °C
Korkeus: 113 m
Japani Asahikawa 43.770842, 142.3648743°46’15” N 142°21’54” E
Asahikawa Museum
18. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Rented bicycles and visited Asahikawa Museum. There were some photos from old times showing lives in this place that gets v cold. Lives of children were very different then. The museum had lots of interesting information about Ainu people (indigenous people) and their culture.Lue lisää
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I would love to visit this museum. The children look similar to those in my mother's photo album from her childhood (minus the cows and snow).
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Päivä 15
sunnuntai 18. syyskuuta 2016 klo 22.56
🌙 13 °C
Korkeus: 108 m
Japani Asahikawa Station 43.762946, 142.35831543°45’47” N 142°21’30” E
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Chubetsu River
18. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
We cycled along Chubetsu River. The cycle parh goes for a really long distance. We stopped along the way and chatted. Saw this young father with two children. Made me think of the children in the pics from tge museum.

Jeff had a go at jogging.Lue lisää
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Juanita Kolaric You look so happy and relaxed Tomoko. 😊👍💕
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Päivä 17
tiistai 20. syyskuuta 2016 klo 0.08
🌙 2 °C
Korkeus: 1 105 m
Japani Asahidake Onsen 43.652817, 142.79806843°39’10” N 142°47’53” E
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Mt Asahidake
20. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ 🌙 2 °C
Jeff drove us to Mt Asahidake. It was a magical place. We went for about an hour's walk on a rocky road. It was really scenic. The leaves were already starting to tirn yellow and red. It was pretty cold up the top, 7 degrees we were told.Lue lisää
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Juanita Kolaric So beautiful
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Juanita Kolaric So clear and beautiful. Looks like you are having a magical time. Xxoo
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tiistai 20. syyskuuta 2016 klo 18.07
⛅ 16 °C
Korkeus: 20 m
Japani Ōdōri-eki 43.062016, 141.35430943°3’43” N 141°21’16” E
Back in Sapporo
20. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
We came back to Sapporo today. We are staying at Mercure Hotel. Its a compact hotel but very nice. We went for a stroll down a shopping area this afternoon and rested at the hotel after that.

Jeff helped me with interview preparation. It always feels so bad to practice. But am grateful to Jeff's contribution. Interview is tomorroe at 1:30 Japanese time. I plan to go jogging afterwards to relax.

Tonight, on Tue night, we went to an Indian restaurant for dinner

On the second night back in Sapporo, on Wed night, we went to sit zazen at a Rinzai temple bear where we are ataying at. Then went out to Spanish dinner. V good.Lue lisää
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Indian food in Sapporo! I wonder if it's Japanese Indian, or Indian Indian. Waiting for your report :-)
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Päivä 20
perjantai 23. syyskuuta 2016 klo 15.49
🌫 16 °C
Korkeus: 37 m
Japani Sapporo Station 43.068558, 141.35058643°4’7” N 141°21’2” E
Sapporo station
23. syyskuuta 2016, Japani ⋅ 🌫 16 °C
Last day. Had lunch at Sapporo station. Soft rain outside.

Pics from Tanuki Koji (or Racoon Path shopping arcade) area where we ate dinner last night and the view from the JR Tower (38 floors tall) we visited on the last day.Lue lisää
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A great view from the tower! And Tanuki Koji looks cosy. I love little Japanese bars and restaurants in lanes.
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23. syyskuuta 2016