2008 Holiday
Holiday plans 2008
2008/09/05 Friday
Leave Ueno (上野) on Cassiopeia 16:00.
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
Duties: Book hotel
Sunday
Pick up rental car, drive to Wakkanai (稚内) by coastal road.
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
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, cross tunnel to Aomori (青森). Also return car.
Things to do: Stop for tunnel museum? Aomori things to do?
Hakodate - big ropeway http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zYhvstb5Ekw
http://www.334.co.jp/en/index.html
SL train does a short jaunt south Hokkaido
tunnel museum station 2 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.
Wednesday
Travel south, maybe Shinkansen. Stop somewhere in the middle? Maybe Sendai (仙台) ?
Thursday
Travel to Tokyo (東京) by Shinkansen.
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