Hitsujigaoka Tenbōdai

I ended up staying in bed till around midday today, part of me was thinking it was because I had been so happy in Hakodate but also I started realising that big city's stress me and Sapporo felt very similar to Tokyo in some ways, there are too many options of places to go and do that it overwhelms me.
I missed out on the breakfast but went out and found a fast food cafe for a quick bite/lunch.
Walked through Arora underground this time to get a subway to a famous statue in the area. I really liked the write-up and the note of "Boys be ambitious". I got myself a little gashapon and was thankful it was the one I was wanting to get. They had a museum which had the models of all the Sapporo winter festival stages, some of them were massive and did make me wonder if it was worth trying to attend as it's on in the start of February.
I then headed back to the city as I wanted to check out the Sapporo beer factory. They had these little boxes every now and then which you could grab bags of gravel from and sprinkle on the sidewalks if it was too slippery for people. I liked the thought that they were just free and not vandalized or pointlessly used up by people.
Sadly the museum was closed as it was still public holidays in Japan so I went to the mall not far from it for a quick lunch.
I then went back to the hotel for a rest and researched early flights home and options if I wanted to change.
I headed out for some ramen as apparently Sapporo is famous for it and had a ramen alley. I do have to say it was a pretty good ramen and my neighbour got one which was just corn and butter, and when I say just corn, it was the whole top of the bowl, probably half a can at least.
I started walking dinner off and found these susukino (district I was in) information shops which advertised the different bars you could go to with scantily dressed girls in different styles. Cowgirl, nurse, business, bunny the list went on. Again I was tempted but they all just feel so fake.
I ended up going to an Irish bar for a drink and spoke to a fisherman for a couple of hours. His English was about as good as my Japanese so a lot of our conversation used Google translate to assist. He was a very philosophical guy often talking about how to make the most out of life but was still very merry about it all.
It was midnight by the time I got home but I wanted to get up early and head back to Hakodate tomorrow as I was enjoying the smaller city life much more.Read more