Sapporo

Headed up to Hokkaido on the Shinkansen and regional train and arrived late in the evening, followed by a rest day after 2 weeks with family. Then met Ash in the evening, who was in Japan with her parents and then came up to join us!

She was very patient for the next few days as we fell asleep all over the place and when Chris got food poisoning from a local izakaya (we assume).

We took it easy but had a few trips around Sapporo, which is a very walkable and easygoing city - the Nikka distillery out in Yoichi, which does a free tour and tasting and makes excellent apple wine; the sculpture park, which was lovely and almost completely deserted; and the Olympic museum, which has a ski jump with amazing views over the city.

And we ate a lot of soup curry and sushi.もっと詳しく