EXPLORING SAPPORO | Japan Vlog Day 1
We started our 8 days trip to Japan by catching our AirAsia flight from Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok. We landed, in the morning, about six hours later at New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, the capital city of Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido.
Here’s how our day progressed:
- As soon as we passed immigration and customs at New Chitose Airport, we were welcomed by Doraemon, vending machines, sensor driven toilets, an exhibition on Ainu culture and civilization, then the Steiff Discovery Walk, Pokemon stores, and artistic sculptures.
- Once out of the airport, we went to the JR Train Station to get a ticket for the JR Express Train that goes to Sapporo. Buying a ticket and finding the right platform is not as complicated as it may seem... The cost of a one-way the ticket is 1.070 yen/person (which is roughly a bit less than $10US.)
- The easiest way of getting downtown Sapporo City from New Chitose Airport is by JR Express train. It's also a great opportunity to have a first glimpse at the cities around Hokkaido's capital. The stops the train made were at Minami-Chitose, Chitose, Eniwa, Kita-Hiroshima, Shin-Sapporo, and finally Sapporo.
- The first thing I always do when I land in a new place (read country!) is try to find the nearest tourist information office to get a map of the city I'm exploring.
- Let's be honest: one of the main reasons why people like to travel to Japan is not necessarily to check out temples and historical sites, but to eat Japanese food. Likewise, before we even got out of Sapporo Train Station, we stopped at a diner for onigiri and a hot macha latte.
- What do you do when you have some spare time in Japan? You find a bakery and get something that tastes like nothing you have ever tasted before. By far Japan has the best bakeries in the world!
- Using the subway system in Japan might seem a daunting task, but it's pretty easy to use. Just follow the signs... That's exactly what we did on our quest to find the entry to the Tōhō Line at Sapporo Station.
- Taking the metro for the first time from Sapporo Station (where we arrived from New Chitose Airport by JR Express Train) to Gakuen-mae Station, the closest metro station to our Airbnb accommodation.
- Japan is known as one of the cleanest countries in the world. Go into any Japanese public toilet and see if you're not impressed with the sights and the smells. I mean, really!
- Toyohira-ku, one of Sapporo's 10 wards, was established in 1972 when Japan hosted the XI Olympics Winter Games. It is also the first neighborhood we explored on our trip to Hokkaido.
- Ramen is a Japanese soup and noodles dish that is very popular in Sapporo. You can't make a trip to Hokkaido without trying a bowl of miso ramen. We ended up eating the best Sapporo Ramen Sanpachi at a local restaurant franchise!
- What we though was only an evacuation site with a small Japanese shrine turned out to be an amazing experience exploring Kyooji Temple, a Nichiren sect Buddhist temple and cemetery in Sapporo.
- Our first day in Sapporo was a visual invasion on our senses. Everywhere we looked, everything we saw, was something we wanted to take notice of. By the end of the day we were tired, cold, and ready to call it a day, but not before stocking up on a few supplies for the next day’s morning breakfast.
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Nagoya Side Trip to the Kiso Valley | japan-guide.com
Learn more about this trip to the Kiso Valley:
For this 3 day trip we will be checking out some of the popular attractions in the city of Nagoya, before travelling back in time to the Kiso valley to explore the beautifully post towns of Magome and Tsumago, partake in a calligraphy experience at Ochiaijuku, and end the trip with a visit at Iida's Puppet museum as well as a boat cruise along the Tenryu River.
- Video Credits -
Host and Narrator: Sam Evans
Videographer: Charles Sabas
Producers: Sam Evans, Stefan Schauwecker & Export Japan
Yamadera, Japan - Yamadera Station (2019)
Yamadera Station (山寺駅 Yamadera-eki) is a railway station in the city of Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Yamadera Station is served by the Senzan Line, and is located 48.7 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Sendai Station.
Yamadera Station has a single island platform connected to the station building by an overhead walkway. The station is designed to resemble a Buddhist temple.
Yama-dera (山寺 lit. Mountain Temple), (山号 宝珠山; Sangō Hōshu-zan) is about a twenty-minute train ride (Senzan Line) northeast of Yamagata City, in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. The temple is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty and Historic Site.
The area is named after the common name of the temple of Risshaku-ji (立石寺), founded in 860 AD by the priest Ennin (円仁) (AD 793 or 794–864), who is better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師). In 847 he returned to Japan from China and in 854 he became the chief priest of the Tendai sect at Enryaku-ji. Risshaku-ji was founded as a branch temple of Enryaku-ji on Mt. Hiei near Kyoto. Even today the ritual fires brought from Enryaku-ji are still burning in the main temple. It developed into the major Heian-period (794–1185) temple for rural Dewa province (now Yamagata and Akita prefectures). This main temple, the Konpon-chūdō, an important cultural asset, is said to have been built in 1356 by Shiba Kaneyori, lord of Yamagata Castle. Most of Risshaku-ji was destroyed during the local wars of the early 16th century. It was rebuilt in 1543 under the monk Enkai. By the Edo period (1600–1868) Risshaku-ji was a powerful institution possessing a fief of 1,420 koku.
The present Konpon-chūdō (Main Hall) is a Muromachi period (1333–1568) construction of beech, which is rare as a building material. The temples clinging to the steep rocky hillsides are picturesque and unusual. The thousand step climb through the dense cedar trees is worth making to the temples at the top and for the view from them. The principal image of the main temple is the Heian-period seated wooden image of Yakushi Nyorai (the Buddha Bhaisajyaguru), an important cultural asset. Yamadera holds many other important cultural assets in its treasure house, the Hihokan, including standing wooden images of Shaka Nyorai, Yakushi Nyorai and Amida Nyorai, a seated wooden image of Dengyo Daishi, a hanging wooden mandala of Buddha, and a stone monument of the Nyohō-kyō Sutra from 1144.
Yama-dera is where the well-known haiku poet Matsuo Bashō wrote his famous haiku ah this silence / sinking into the rocks / voice of cicada in 1689. A museum of Basho's writings and paintings and other related art, the Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum, is a short walk up the hill on the opposite side of the steep valley. In 1996, the Ministry of the Environment selected the cicadas of Yama-dera as one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan.
Meet The FURUSATO Hokkaido（EN）
Hokkaido press tour
~Craftsmanship of Hokkaido~
Hokkaido is well known area from overseas as a majestic wilderness and attractive foods. This tour is featured in the craftsmanship city of Asahikawa, where people can experience great products of Hokkaido.
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■Asahikawa Furniture Center
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■Ryoei PLAN
■Yukara-ori Folk Craft Musuem
■Dreamy Person
■Sasaki Kogei
■Asahiyama Zoo
Pink salmon and chum salmon run in Otoshibe river, Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan
Underwater footage of karafutomasu (カラフトマス) / pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and shirozake (シロザケ) / chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) run in Otoshibe river, Hokkaido. Recorded on August 25, 2019.
Delicious Japanese food at Nijo Market & Sapporo Factory in Sapporo,Hokkaido, Japan!
Nijo Market
Nijo Market (二条市場, Nijō Ichiba) is a public market in central Sapporo that occupies about one city block. Both locals and tourists visit the market to shop for fresh local produce and seafood such as crabs, salmon eggs, sea urchin and various fresh and prepared fish.
The market is open from around 7:00 to around 18:00 on all days of the week, with individual shops maintaining their own opening hours and closing days. Several restaurants can be found among the shops, including a collection of small drinking places and restaurants along a narrow corridor called Noren Yokocho.
Address:
Japan, 〒060-0053 Hokkaido Prefecture, Sapporo, Chuo Ward, 南3条東1丁目〜東2丁目
Sapporo Factory
The Sapporo Factory is a complex that includes a shopping mall, office, multiplex movie theaters, and museum, located in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The building was formerly a brewery that belonged to the Kaitakushi, the old government of Hokkaidō prefecture, and later owned by the Sapporo Beer Company, the predecessor of the Sapporo Brewery. Currently, the Sapporo Factory is run by the Yebisu Garden Place, a subsidiary of Sapporo Holdings Ltd., and a real estate company. The original brewery building was built in 1876, and after the brewery ceased to function in beer production, the operations were moved to a new location in Eniwa, in 1993.
Address:
4 Chome Kita 2 Johigashi, Chuo Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture 060-0032, Japan
「やってみる」から、はじめよう。 | Keisuke Iwaya | TEDxHIU
He is taking the universe with rubber balloon.
He succeeded in taking the first photographs from 30 kilometers over Japan as a private sector. Since then, he has been developing his methods, and set a record in the number of launching and acquired the highest success rate in Japan and the highest altitude in the world. He has established a method of world’s best standards. He has been featured in various media such as television, newspapers, magazines, television commercials, and advertisements. He developed the methods by himself. A picture on foreign web news site he found on summer vacation in his fourth year at his university was the beginning of his story. He is acting so that people may feel more familiar with space and have a challenge spirit, through “Fusen Ucyu Project”, or Balloon Photo graphics from Space, which he developed with things for daily use and by personal funds.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
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