• Shopping

    October 17 in Japan ⛅ 13 °C

    Today we were tasked to check out a couple of furniture stores for the house in Otaru. Nothing much we could find in the price bracket we set. Nice coffee though.

    The free hotel breakfast buffet is really good and we get to experience foods we are very unfamiliar with.

    Our mission today is to organise delivery of a mattress that Nicholas has already picked and placed in his online shopping cart. Two lovely ladies in a store very much like David Jones, with the help of Google translate on an iPad helped us establish that this was not going to work out for various reasons.

    We checked out two Daiso stores and Book Off and came across a building with four levels of poker machines before heading to a coffee bar. I chose the latte with read bean.

    Sapporo has a streetcar loop that does a circuit of the south west area of the city. It’s just one carriage but there’s about five or six circuiting at once. The loop takes about an hour and after the commuter crush gets off, it’s a pleasant way to see that part of the city.
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