2008 Holiday: Difference between revisions

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Holiday plans 2008

2008/09/05 Friday

Leave Ueno (上野) on Cassiopeia 16:00. 1 2

Saturday

Arrive Sapporo (札幌) at 09:30.

Things to do: Amusement park, Sapporo sight-seeing?

http://www.satoland.com/index.html - big park, sl train-bus, looks a bit like showa kinen style.

Mt Moira Ropeway 藻岩山ロープウェイ http://www.sapporo-dc.co.jp/eng/moiwa/index.html Hours 10:00-21:00 between Apr. 14 and Nov. 9 Access 7-minute walk from "Ropeway iriguchi" Streetcar Stop Inquiries Tel 011-561-8177 Seems to be affiliated with/near Kidland http://www.sapporo-dc.co.jp/eng/kidland/index.html 15minutes from Maruyama Koen Subway Station, Exit No.3

Kiroro resort - near Otaru (west of sapporo), has bouncy castles, archery and papercraft museum(!!), also has flash looking hotel within the resort

Kids cafe in Sapporo http://cafe.happy-mama.com/index.html

Duties: Book hotel

Sunday

Pick up rental car, drive to Wakkanai (稚内) by coastal road. http://www.scenicbyway.jp/english/index_e.html

Things to do: On way back down - jiggerworld! http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?lat=44.51990472&lon=142.5979131&sc=5

http://torokko.co.uk/index.php

Reindeer world　http://www.town.horonobe.hokkaido.jp/web2/pd_cont.nsf/eb3ad322058bb29749256c9b00100d2f/90bdbc842b0d8dd149257037002487e6?OpenDocument

Science museum in Wakkanai http://www.city.wakkanai.hokkaido.jp/kagakukan/index.htm Also aquarium there

Ferry info http://www.heartlandferry.jp/english/index.html

Duties: Book car, book hotel

Monday

Drive south, by central mountain road, stop somewhere in the middle.

Things to do: Central Zoo in Asahikawa

Canadian world http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~canadian/map.html

Greenland amusement park http://www.h-greenland.com/access/

Duties: Pick place to stay, book hotel. Asahikawa area http://www.asahikawa-daisetsu.info/e/index.html

Tuesday

Drive further south to Hakodate (函館), return car.

Things to do: Hakodate - big ropeway http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhvstb5Ekw

SL train does a short jaunt south Hokkaido

Duties: Book hotel.

Wednesday

Take tunnel tour from Hakodate (函館) at 10:40, tunnel, ropeway and museum for 2 hours, and finishes in Aomori (青森).

tunnel museum station 2 3

Things to do in Aomori: ???

Duties: book tunnel tour, book Hotel

Thursday

Travel to Tokyo (東京) by Shinkansen (新幹線).

Duties: Book Shinkansen tickets.

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 === Tuesday ===
-Drive further south, cross tunnel to Aomori (青森). Also return car.
+Drive further south to Hakodate (函館), return car.
-Things to do: Stop for tunnel museum? Aomori things to do?
+Things to do: Hakodate - big ropeway http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhvstb5Ekw
+ [http://www.334.co.jp/en/index.html 2]
-Hakodate - big ropeway http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhvstb5Ekw
+SL train does a short jaunt south Hokkaido
-http://www.334.co.jp/en/index.html
+Duties: Book hotel.
+=== Wednesday ===
-SL train does a short jaunt south Hokkaido
+Take tunnel tour from Hakodate (函館) at 10:40, tunnel, ropeway and museum for 2 hours, and finishes in Aomori (青森).
 [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%9C%E9%A3%9B%E6%B5%B7%E5%BA%95%E9%A7%85 tunnel museum station] [http://allabout.co.jp/travel/railtravel/closeup/CU20080320A/index2.htm 2]
 [http://jr.hakodate.jp/train/tunnel/kaitei_kengaku.htm 3]
-However, best tour leaves Hakodate (函館) at 10:40, and leaves you in Aomori. So we would have to sleep close/in Hakodate.
-Duties: Book hotel.
+Things to do in Aomori: ???
-=== Wednesday ===
+Duties: book tunnel tour, book Hotel
-Travel south, maybe Shinkansen. Stop somewhere in the middle? Maybe Sendai (仙台) ?
+=== Thursday ===
-=== Thursday ===
+Travel to Tokyo (東京) by Shinkansen (新幹線).
-Travel to Tokyo (東京) by Shinkansen.
+Duties: Book Shinkansen tickets.