日本旅行(part 1)

おしゃしぶり。私は日本にぃって帰りました。

北海道を通りました

To get to Hokkaido, we had to take JAL to Narita airport, from there, we took coach to Haneda airport before we could take the domestic flight to Chitose Airport. While we were at Haneda airport, we noticed that there are a lots of 高校生.

" Huh?, they no need to study meh? I tot sch holidays had not yet started for the Japanese."

小黒さんによると：It was the excusion vacations weeks for the Japanese students now, thus they will be visiting the cultural spots in Japan

Japanese students are so fortunate. ヤパリ

As our tour guide asked us to check in on our own, I smiled at the pretty Japanese airport personal and gave her our tickets.
Then to my surprise, she assaulted me with amazing speed of Japanese.
"Wat", Aiyoh, It was hard to understand her Japanese, I was not familar with her ascents. Then another personal start to talk to me more slowly, From her, I understood that we could only check in 30 minutes before the flight as there were be lots of people transferring from one

県to another 県of Japan. 困ったな！

Japanese Scare: 3/5 ( I expected all airport personals to speak in English)

No Vege food Scare: 0/5 ( not hungry yet)

Politeness rating: 4/5( They apologise when they accidently knocked onto you, and everyone kept to the left of the escalators, everyone woh!!!)

Station 1:洞爷湖

We reached lake Toya at about 12 something, our first stop was to see those bear in the bear ranch.

Did anyone remember 蜡笔小新 threw his mother purse to feed the bears? This was where it happened. ( I later found out that there are so many bear ranches in hokkaido)So cute right!!! 3 little bears. (seems like both Korean and Japanese like the three bears a lot)

After our lunch, we went to a quaint ice-cream farm to make our own ice-cream. 楽しい. We had to add 500ml of fresh milk with 250ml of fresh cream. We had to whisk them together in a large metal bowl with salted ice underneath . Though fun, it was pure hardwork.

The Japanese were so authentic. Furthermore we were not comply to buy anything after the visit, they even give us free pudding to bring back home. (Japanese are also obessive with pudding) After the farm visit, we went back to the hotel.The hotel had a very nice view woh!!!
Glad to find my hotel room was in Japanese style. I could sleep on the futon woh! Karen and I were contemplating of doing some sparring on the futon. Yeah!!! (We collapsed in fatigue on the first day though)

After the dinner, we took a stroll around the lake and waited for the fireworks to start.

To the Japanese, 花火 is a very important thing. Even the most workacholic Japanese will take time to watch the fire works and participate in the summer festival wearing their yukata.

Thus I was very glad that I managed to catch the 花火 as this was part of the Japanese culture.
We had the luxury of a 30min show. Fantastic.

Too bad, I didn't use Nikon D70, thus only had this as memory.

While we were walking back from the lake, Garfield suddenly turned to me,

" I tot some Japanese guy was toking to Karen, turned out that it was you"

" なんだろ！"
" At least, I say u looked like Japanese Guy mah"

Wah, I was really ”flattered”。
I was wearing blazer with cap as the wind is quite chilling in the night. Yeah, blazer was really what the Japanese guys will wear. They wun be caught dead in dreadful windbreaker.

Actually we found quite a number of handsome or should I say kawaii couple during the fireworks. Hmm I find it real romantic!!! to watch 花火 with our 恋人.

気になる人と一緒に、花火を見ったら、喜びます。

After the fireworks, I proceeded to soak myself in the onsen. Only Long and me decided to go for the public bath on the first day. Garfield and Karen were too tired to join us the first night.

As I had Onsen experience before in Korea, I didn't find it awkward . Just when I stepped in, an obasan ask me where to get towels as she did not have one at the moment, I told her that she needed to bring her towels from her room and she looked very distraught, fortunately, she saw her friend who managed to give her one. (Other hotels provide towels at the main entrances to the bath)

Hmm had a really nice time in the onsen, felt totally relaxed and I found it really nice to sleep afterwards. No wonder Japanese really love their onsen.

Japanese Scare: 1/5 ( I can understand majority of what the owner said and got Long san has to translate the remaining 20 percent to me. I can converse with the obasan, very happy )

No Vege food Scare: 3/5 [ Got food, though dun look as good as "meat eaters" course(^ _^!!!) my Dinner looked pathetic as it is buffet style. ]

Politeness rating: 4/5 (The Owner of the farm is so friendly !!! I am impressed)

Things bought: A Hello kitty Pen that is only sold in Hokkaido, costed 520円



Station 2: Sobetsu and Noboribetsu

We took a ferry in the moring and went to Nakajima Island to learn about hokkaido zoology. Seems like deers, bears and foxes are commonly found in Hokkaido. We went to Sobetsu in the afternoon to pick the the strawberries. The owner of the farm was again very friendly and we were not force to buy their strawberries. The strawberries were very sweets and very big... Hmm, I polished about 8 strawberries. The same farm also harvest apple in autumn, As it was spring, we can only see the beautiful apple flowers (Hokkaido is in spring in June)

We then went to visit the ainu village in Noboribetsu, Ainu was the minority enthic group in Japan and from what I see, they resembled those minority enthic group in China (白族）and Taiwan anuwa. We learned about their custom and their living style. See a lots of 高校生.

Trivial

How to differentiate 高校生,from 中校生?

For female students:Look at their skirt length, the 高校生 weared mini skirt.

For Male students: They are taller with stylo hair.

Next we reach the hell valley for our second hotel, the hell valley was literally hell as sulphur dioxide gas enguffed the air. Smells like rotten eggs .

They even have a puppet show about the hades of hell along the street near my hotel and the street are full of people cladded in Yukata waiting for the show.

Seems like in Japan, they wear Yukata whenever they are on holiday in the summer.

That day we also wore Yukata. They looked Kawaii, for me it is more Kakkoii . Haha

The Onsen rating for the second date is 5/5. There were a lot of varieties . My favorite was the skin beautifying onsen.

Japanese Scare: 4/5 (The introducer of the Ainu village spoke in record time Japanese as there were lots of Korean tourists around and their tour guide translated everything for them. The introductor also spoke in Korean sometime, I was so fetted up, only long understand him.)

No Vege food Scare: 3/5 [ 2nd day dinner is better ]

Politeness rating: 3/5 (Sales persons are friendly and gave recommendation)
Things bought: Just black seasme ice-cream 230円

つつく！

お楽しみに待って見ます。