Dec24 - Aomori

We had a slow start to our morning with just about everyone waking at 6am. We didn't head out to breakfast until after 7:30am, only hubby and I went and got combini food to bring back.

At 10 we headed out of the hotel and went for a walk to the shore, and visited the ASPAM building and then we walked to Seria. Dale had the great idea that we each go and buy Christmas presents for each other at the 100yen store. We armed the kids with $10, so they could get each person 3 gifts. This was a load of fun and we spent a while walking the aisles deciding on what to get. And then we decided to try it again at Daiso, but only 1 gift. This was harder due to Daiso's price ranging. The variety of items was also better at the Seria. So Christmas shopping done we headed across the road to have lunch at Gusto at 1pm.

Here we had a lovely lunch of steak, pasta, udon, tonkatsu and fries all for $40. Crazy the good value. We then let the kids go back to the hotel, and Jason and I went to check something out at a shop. On the way out we passed a outdoor store outlet that had a lovely Helly Hansen down jacket for 40% off. So we got it for Jason, and with tax free was about $200, instead of the $380 ticket price.

We then rested up back at the hotel for a few hours. At about 5:30pm we walked to the Christmas market at ASPAM, here we had some food from the food trucks and looked at the Christmas tree. We heard music over the speakers and after a while else we discovered it was a girl pop group singing live inside the building. So we watched a few songs of that and had some more food. At 7pm they had a short round of fireworks. So that ended our Christmas eve.

Back at the hotel we got our bags ready for our morning move.Read more