Post-Processing

Unlike the 2019 trip, the 2022 trip this time round saw a couple of days – especially in the first week of our trip – where we experienced late autumn colors, which in turn made for great opportunities in post-processing

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 15 – Tokyo and Returning Home

Truth be told; we made two fairly large mistakes in planning for our itinerary. The larger of the two was making a major itinerary change – i.e. making Hokkaido instead of central Japan our main focus – after we’d bought

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 13 – Motomachi

Motomachi is the port-side district in Hakodate that looks most un-Japanese. The area is extremely popular with visitors, but possibly in part that there were varying degrees of snowfall for the afternoon, the area wasn’t as crowded as other spots

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 13 – Onuma Quasi-National Park

Our last substantial day of visitations this trip, before we make our way back to New Chitose Airport tomorrow for the flight back to Tokyo, and the day after that, the SQ flight back home. We found this place –

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 12 – Mt. Hakodate

And finally, our last stop for Day 12: going up Mt. Hakodate for what’s regarded as one of Japan’s top three night views of its cities. Nicknamed “Glimmering Jewellery Box”, it sure looks it. The view from this mountain surpasses

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 12 – Goryokaku Tower

Up the 107m tall Goryokaku Tower next  – the only easily accessible way to see the five-point star-shaped former fort of Goryokaku. The park seems ordinary on the ground, but viewed from above, it takes on a completely different perspective.

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 11 – Makomanai Cemetery

Whoops. Why were we visiting a cemetery…? Well, for starters, this was the only other place of interest to us in the area, so we included the place – ostensibly as an ‘optional’ place to visit after Takino Suzuran Hillside Park

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 11 – Takino Suzuran Hillside Park Snow World

There were two large revisions we made to our Japan Dec 2019 itinerary in the months of planning from July onwards. Firstly, we decided not to a round city by city loop from Tokyo and opted instead to spend a

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15 Days in Kanagawa & Hokkaido – Day 10 – Moerenuma Park

While Nakajima Park was always on our itinerary but on Day 12 morning, Moerenuma Park wasn’t anywhere on our itinerary. The park isn’t in Sapporo Centrals but on the outskirts, but accessible by bus 76 from Kitasanjuyojo Station, with the

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