Category: Hokkaido

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Tabemono Summer Vacation- Hokkaido/Tohoku 2016 Day 9-10 – Hakodate

The port town of Hakodate, which is Hokkaido’s third largest city, wraps up our final destination of Japan’s northern most island.   Hakodate was Japan’s first port city that was opened to foreign trade in 1854, after years of Japan’s era of isolation.  As such the city has experienced multiple foreign influences that shaped its town landscape, food, and culture.  Many of the buildings stayed intact since the 1800s and are some of the primary attractions of the city. Continue reading “Tabemono Summer Vacation- Hokkaido/Tohoku 2016 Day 9-10 – Hakodate”

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Tabemono Summer Vacation- Hokkaido/Tohoku 2016 Day 9- Rusutsu Amusement Park, TreeTop Trekking, and Zaborin Part 2

After a restful and peaceful first night at Zaborin, you truly appreciate the brilliance that this contemporary, yet zen-like ryokan offers.  While there were other guests staying at the same time as our stay, the ryokan is large and the feeling of luxury and exclusiveness permeated throughout our stay.   As previously mentioned in the last post, Zaborin is nestled in a quiet forest in Hanazono of Niseko and the kanji characters for Zaborin (坐 忘 林) means “to sit and forget amongst the woods”, and it is a perfect description of our experience as we forgot about the troubles of the world and just enjoyed ourselves nestled in the white-birch forests. Continue reading “Tabemono Summer Vacation- Hokkaido/Tohoku 2016 Day 9- Rusutsu Amusement Park, TreeTop Trekking, and Zaborin Part 2”

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