Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
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
Every trip I make, I’d do a post-trip post commenting on the image capture experience of that trip. It’s mostly done in order to have a detailed record of what happened in the trip so that I can make more
The Lunar New Year period this year in 2020 lands on the best possible date, weekday wise: eve on a FRI, and as both proceeding public holiday days are on weekday days, the country declares the following MON as another
Truth be told, we made two fairly large mistakes in planning 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 our
Motomachi is the port-side district in Hakodate that looks most un-Japanese. The area is extremely popular with visitors, but possibly in part because there were varying degrees of snowfall for the afternoon, the area wasn’t as crowded as other spots
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 –
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
Up the 107 m 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
Day 12 and we’re headed to the last leg of our trip – the port city of Hakodate. Our original plan was to spend a night in this city, but now that we’d added an additional night, we have quite
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
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 do a round city-by-city loop from Tokyo and opted instead to spend a substantial
While Nakajima Park was always on our itinerary for Day 10 morning, Moerenuma Park wasn’t anywhere on our itinerary initially. The park isn’t in Sapporo Central but on the outskirts, though accessible by Bus 76 from Kitasanjuyojo Station, with the
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