The day we had to leave, i thought i knew where we were getting picked up. We went to goryokaku eki and went in front of the soba place and waited. Turned out i was wrong cauz by the meeting time, we were not sure what we were waiting for. Nicole figured we should ask and i did. Turned out there was another ramen place around the corner and a bus stop in front of it. Just as we get there, the bus arrives. That was a close call.
The seats resembled air plane seats a little bit. They were really nice. Nicole did not know the bus ride to Sapporo was 5 hours but i think she managed to sleep through it.
I was surprised to see that much snow but i heard stories before.
We arrived at the Sapporo station and ran around trying to find the hotel. We had to ask a few twice but managed to find it.
The hotel was bigger than the one we got in Tokyo. It was pretty clean and the shampoos and soaps smelled really nice.
For the first night, we ended up just having dinner and wandered around Sapporo. Of course, we had to go get desserts somewhere.
The next day, we went to visit a chocolate factory. I was really nice! reminded me of Charlie and the chocolate factory. It was also the factory of Shiroi KoiBito. Upon entering the factory, we also got a shiroi koibito :p.
Since i was already there, i figured i may as well get the Shiroi Koibito parfait. It was really nice!
It was slightly odd but the factory also had several displays of toys. There was that giant face on the wall that we saw at the trick art museum in Tokyo again except instead of worms falling on your hands, it screams. It freaked out Nicole.. was very amusing.
Outside, there was a lot of christmas lights, decorations and the factory let out some puppets that started singing. Nicole seemed to really dig it.
I really wanted to go to Susukino after so we took the Metro there.
It was really nice & there were a lot of entertainment around that area as well as some very questionable invitations from some very questionable hotels(they had pictures of the hotel guests.... and "staff" on the bed).
We also checked out the park where they will hold the Yuki Matsuri. There were only "Molds" of the snow statues and i was looking forward to it since i will be going to that too.
We went back for dinner.... at the Sapporo Eki again.
It seems we always go to the station for food but the food was good so i didn't mind.
After dinner & desserts, we went to an izakaya to have some drinks. Nicole started with a korean rice wine called makkoli. I started with Japanese rice wine. and after a few drinks, we were laughing and playing drinking games.
We left later because Nicole looked a bit dizzy and then... if you saw her status on facebook... you know what happened next :p.
Next day we had to catch the bus at 3 pm and we decided to go check out the Sapporo Beer Museum. It was very interesting & i learned a lot about Sapporo beer. I was unaware that the building next door had all you can eat lamb. :(... Next time i suppose.
I dont need to mention where we had lunch... we went back to the station and found a nice ramen place in the basement. They had a cheese tan tan men and the eggs were free. Nicole & I finished all of them as they were "service".
Overall, very nice experience & i am already looking forward to going again.
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