Sunday, January 24, 2010

Japan 2009, Day 8 Boxing Day

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Good morning, Sapporo!

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Train passing by as sun rise

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Breakfast at Nakau (なか卯), a restaurant located at Sapporo station underground street. Here, you will select and purchase the food coupon from the vending machine and pass the coupon to the waitress

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My breakfast – Beef bowl

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With miso soup

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Taking the tram to Mt Moiwa Ropeway, our main itinerary of the day

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We alighted from the tram and walked about 10 minutes. There’s quite a bit of up slope walk, so be prepared :)

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We bought our tickets at the Sanroku Station (山麓駅) to board the ropeway up Mt Moiwa

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View from the ropeway

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Japanese cemetary

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A 5 minutes ride up :)

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Slowly and gradually, the buildings turned into matchbox size

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Halfway up the slope

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After alighting from the ropeway at Sancho Station (456m), we were transferred to one of these snow vehicle to reach the observatory. Cool bus with modified wheels to drive in the snow. It takes about 10 minutes to reach the top

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At the top of the observatory deck (531m). Strong wind and cold weather.. felt that I am going to be blown away anytime!

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Trying hard to steady my cam and concentrating on snapping the shots that I wanted - fast!

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Nice sceneries

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Another view with some houses at the bottom of the mountains

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See how compact is the buildings below?

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Cute little fox

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Bunnies!

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Some big ice cubes are in preparation. Probably for the upcoming snow festival in Feb?

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Time to go back down

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Lunch at Mos Burger. Our drinks

After lunch, we did shopping for the rest of the days. So no photos here :P

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Supper!

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Good night ~~~~

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