But when Yunluo and An Chuyu left at around 9 to 10 o'clock, most of the shops were already closed or about to close. Eating Hokkaido long-legged crab, Otaru, Ramen Republic On the fourth day in Japan, I woke up early in the morning and saw heavy snow outside the window. The whole world was white, so beautiful. I originally planned to go to Hokkaido University.
But the snow was too heavy, so we had to cancel our trip to Hokkaido University and wait until the snow was a little lighter before deciding where to go. We walked downstairs to the hotel and found a handwritten weather forecast, which showed that the snowfall for the day was 70%. We couldn't stay out just because it was snowing heavily, so Yunluo and An Chuyu walked around the hotel, played in the snow, and took some photos.
Then we went to the JR station to exchange the JR ticket. Everyone still remembers what Yunluo said, the day you start using the JR ticket, you should exchange it for a bus ticket, because it starts from the day you exchange the ticket. It was also the first time for the little fat man to see snow. When the snow was a little lighter, Yunluo and An Chuyu officially entered the snow-playing mode. ! Enough playing in the snow.
Yunluo and An Chuyu went to try their luck at the Crab House, which was fully booked last night. A waiter who could speak Chinese told Yunluo and An Chuyu the night before that if they came to wait when the restaurant opened, they might be able to get a seat. The dining time was one and a half hours. Yunluo and An Chuyu calculated the time and went there when the restaurant opened at 12 o'clock.
A very handsome Japanese boy led Yunluo and An Chuyu into the store, and then asked them to take off their shoes and go upstairs to prepare for dinner. So it is still possible to eat there, although the reservation has been booked until December. ! The store is decorated in Japanese style, but don't worry, you don't have to kneel to eat, there is a place to put your feet below.
The waiter will only come to take the order and serve the food. If you need to ring the bell, she will come. At other times, the door is closed, and there is a private space. You can eat freely. There are many choices in the menu, all of which are crab dishes, and there are also set meals to choose from. Yunluo and An Chuyu directly chose a set meal for two, 11,000 yen, and it turned out to be true.
The set meal for two can completely fill three people. Now Yunluo is going to take revenge on society. Hahaha. Very cute chopstick holder. Appetizer: tamagoyaki, crab salad. I don't know what kind of fish it is but it's delicious. Appetizer: crab salad, bang bang bang! Completely fresh crab sashimi and fish sashimi! Yunluo never eats sashimi before.
But Japanese sashimi is so delicious! I can't stop eating it! The crab legs are much longer than Yunluo's hands! Crab hot pot! It's super delicious! It's so happy to see such a big pot! This is the crab sushi that Yunluo and An Chuyu ordered. It's delicious and fresh, 800+ yen per serving, and the portion is very large.
Yunluo and An Chuyu only ate two pieces and packed up the others. This should be the crab roe, which has a strong smell of sea water and a portion of cooked crab legs. There is no need to worry about not being able to eat it, as the store has already processed it all. The crab meat can be completely removed from the crab shell by simply scraping it with tools. It is so blissful to take a big bite full of crab meat!
This is crab meat and vegetables fried in crab shells. Squeeze some lemon juice on it and eat it with it. It is very fragrant and not greasy. When Yunluo and An Chuyu finish the crab meat hot pot and there is a little soup left, the waiter will come in and add some rice and eggs to the remaining crab soup to make two bowls of thick porridge. . Nothing will be wasted.
The porridge was served with pickled vegetables, including plums, salted vegetables and pickled radish. Finally, there was dessert, which was fresh fruit and yogurt, which helped digestion. There were so many crab dishes. The final bill was 11,886 yen, about 630 yuan. If you eat in China, this meal would cost at least 1,200 yuan.
So when you come to Hokkaido, you must not miss the long-legged crab in Hokkaido. You must try it! After dinner, Yunluo and An Chuyu set off to the JR station to take the Shinkansen to Otaru. Yunluo and An Chuyu did not make a reservation in advance for this train. They just went there to see the nearest bus and got on it.
If you want to check the timetable, you can go back to the Hokkaido section in the "Transportation" section above to see the official website's timetable. The snow scenery along the way from Sapporo to Otaru is even more beautiful, and the snow is heavier. And it is land on one side and sea on the other. An Chuyu said it was like a snow train haha. Here is a short video taken on the way, you can see and hear the sound of the sea, the wind and the train.
It takes about 45 minutes to get from Sapporo to Otaru. The station announcement will say "otaru". If you are worried about not understanding it, just look at the announcement strip on the train. It says "Otaru", which is Chinese, so you can definitely understand it. And Otaru is the last stop, so you don't need to worry about missing your stop. As soon as you get off the train, you will see a vast expanse of white. There is much more snow on the tracks of Otaru than in Sapporo.
After exiting the station, I realized that I was too young to have sex. There was so much snow outside. It successfully turned into a coca-cola vending machine. Do you want to buy something to drink? About Otaru. After exiting the station, you will see a tourist information center. There are Chinese maps and information that you can read for free. There are routes and directions to all the attractions in Otaru drawn on it.
Basically, you can just take a map. Otaru is not very big, and it is not far to the canal, about 10-15 minutes away. Okay, what you can see next is snow, heavy snow, big snow, very heavy snow, and very high snow. Snow that is almost as high as a bus. Snow piles shaped like trains. With reference points, you can see how thick the snow is.
With a reference, you can know how heavy the snow was that day and how high it accumulated. On the way to the Otaru Canal, I saw a seafood store. It was cold, so I went in to get some heat. The seafood inside was very fresh, and some of it could be eaten immediately, such as sashimi and grilled shellfish. The price seemed reasonable. After getting some heat, Yunluo and An Chuyu continued to walk forward.
Suddenly, they saw a river and some warehouses. There were no signs or arrows to indicate where they were. Yunluo and Anchuyu walked to the Otaru Canal without realizing it. They walked on the snow all the way to the bridge over the Otaru Canal and saw a scene that everyone who has been to Otaru has in their camera. The temperature in Otaru that day was minus 2.1 degrees Celsius, and the camera was frozen blue.
It is not necessary to arrive in Otaru too early. It is best to go there in the afternoon when it is almost dark but not yet dark. In this way, you can see the daytime and night views of the Otaru Canal at the same time. Each is beautiful in its own way, especially when the street lights on the shore are lit. The Otaru Canal during the day and the Otaru Canal at night.
Because we have to wait until it gets dark. Yunluo and Anchuyu walked around the canal. There was snow everywhere. It was a beautiful place no matter how you looked at it. They saw the famous Asahi Sushi just across the road from the canal. It was a big store and there were many snack bars. If they hadn't eaten the long-legged crab too much at noon, they could have bought some to try. The snow was so thick.
Of course I had to lie down and take a tourist photo. Haha. This was to commemorate Yunluo's first time sleeping in the snow. After nightfall, the weather got even colder, so Yunluo and An Chuyu set out to return to the station and take a bus back to Sapporo. Otaru was even quieter after nightfall. In fact, it was not as noisy as Yunluo imagined with all kinds of tourist groups. It was very quiet and comfortable.
It's a very interesting place just to walk around and step on the snow. The road is so clean that it's all white snow. When I walked back to Otaru Station to wait for the bus, I saw a small cake shop next to it. You must visit restaurants and food places when you come to Japan, because their models are so beautiful that I want to drool just by looking at them!
Can you tell which cake below is a model and which is real? After a 45-minute ride, Yunluo and An Chuyu returned to Sapporo. The station is directly connected to a food street underground. Not wanting to eat anything else, Yunluo and An Chuyu went to the food street and the supermarket. I really recommend everyone to go shopping in Japanese supermarkets.
There is a lot of food, the price is cheap, there are many choices, and the packaging is also very good. You can buy it and eat it slowly in your room, which is a good choice for travel. There are a variety of sushi platters, and you can eat a lot if you buy one! When you arrive in Sapporo Yunluo and An Chuyu, you should check in at Ramen Republic. Ramen Republic is on the 10th floor of the Esta building.
It is said that this place is made up of 8 specialty ramen shops from all over Hokkaido. I heard that they have a monthly selection, and the best survive, so each one will actively recruit customers. Listening to their shouting, it is very Japanese haha~ In addition, there is a bigcamera next to esta. If you want to go shopping or buy electrical appliances, you can go directly here.
Here you can see that every ramen shop is doing their best to promote their own ramen, with all kinds of titles like "top-notch" and "first place" etc. Yunluo and An Chuyu finally chose this Asahikawa ramen shop as a preview for their trip to Asahikawa tomorrow. Also, because they have spicy ramen here, after eating Japanese food for many days, they are all too original, so eating something spicy can wake up the stomach.
The ramen is still based on the miso soup. It's a little spicy, and the noodles are chewy. The eggs in Japanese ramen are all soft-boiled eggs, which are delicious, and the barbecued pork is also a big piece. It can satisfy the needs of meat eaters~ But the soup of Japanese ramen is still relatively salty. For those who have a lighter taste, they think this bowl of noodles is too heavy, haha.
After eating noodles, it's time to go back to the hotel to rest. You can eat the strawberries you bought at the supermarket. You can't eat Japanese strawberries easily, because you will fall in love with them once you eat them! Really! Completely addictive~! A box of Japanese strawberries is sold for about 40 RMB in the supermarket. There is no sourness or whiteness at all. The whole thing is sweet, and the color and arrangement are super beautiful.
In the next few days, Yunluo knew that she would buy and eat strawberries when she saw them, and she couldn't stop at all~ Another thing to say is that Japan's convenience stores are really convenient. Yunluo especially likes their beverage cabinets. It seems like she can buy all of them. I have to say that Japan's packaging design is really the best in the world. Just looking at it makes me want to buy it!
In addition, Japanese instant noodles are actually very delicious. If you really can’t find anything to eat, you can try it. The taste is really good. After all, Japan is the birthplace of instant noodles, so it can be considered a check-in ~ haha.
A good breakfast will put you in a good mood for the whole day. There is a Japanese set meal restaurant next to the ramen restaurant downstairs in the hotel. It is very clean. Yunluo and An Chuyu chose this one to try. Many stores in Japan have automatic ticket machines at the entrance. You can choose what you want to eat first, and then put money in to buy meal tickets.
Then give the ticket to the waiter, and the waiter will prepare the food according to the order and send it to you. Again, if you can't read Japanese, there are pictures on it, so you can guess what it means. Japanese food is very light, without heavy seasoning, and most importantly, very little oil, but you won't get hungry easily, the ingredients are very fresh, and there are many varieties.
Yunluo still likes Japanese breakfast very much. After breakfast, Yunluo and An Chuyu set off to the last attraction in Osaka, the castle tower. The castle tower of Osaka Castle was originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 16th century. In order to build Osaka Castle, he ordered the princes of the country to participate in the construction project. Many stones for the moat and the city walls were also donated by princes from all over the country.
Hundreds of thousands of workers were mobilized in three years. It was built with their hard work and sweat. Yunluo and An Chuyu were more interested in the maple leaves that had not yet withered beside the park than the castle tower. It felt magical to see the maple leaves for the first time! (Children in the south have never seen many things, haha.) There were many citizens running and exercising around the castle tower.
It is difficult to associate a building with such a high status in Osaka with the daily fitness activities of citizens. Yunluo and An Chuyu only looked at it from the outside and did not go in. From the outside, they thought it was a very delicate and Japanese-style building. From the castle tower to Kyobashi Station, Yunluo and An Chuyu went shopping in the department store downstairs of the hotel.
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Because of the year-end promotion, many stores directly offer 40% to 60% off. Japanese clothes are made of good materials and are not expensive. Girls who come to travel can really buy more. After shopping, it's time for Yunluo and Anchu to find food. There are several alleys behind the hotel, with many small shops and Internet cafes here, as well as a lot of ramen.
There are also fruit shops. The fruits in Japan are delicious and not expensive. They are all fresh. You can buy more to eat. After all, you can't bring them back home. You should eat more of these things while you are in Japan. Yunluo eats a box of strawberries almost every day in Japan. I will talk about it later. Tips for finding food: If you don't want to eat in those small shops.
The food section of a Japanese department store is a very good choice. Don't think that the food section of a department store is bad. There are a wide variety of things here, and they are well matched. There are all kinds of set meals, fried food, rice balls, sushi, sashimi, snacks, etc. The price is very cheap, and the attitude of the service staff is also super good.
And the food department of the department store will have discounts at night. There are all kinds of discounts. If the hotel does not include breakfast, you can take advantage of the discount to buy some rice balls or something at night, which is also good for breakfast the next morning. Japanese black bean tea is great! Yunluo drinks it every day and buys a lot of it back. It is good for the body! After shopping and eating, we packed our luggage.
Yunluo and Anchuyu left Kyobashi and went to Osaka Itami Airport to take a flight to Hokkaido. There was a Conan billboard on the subway. Because the estimate was wrong. The time to arrive at Itami Airport was about 30 minutes before the plane took off. Yunluo and Anchuyu were super nervous, because if they were in China, even if they were flying domestic routes.
They also had to check in 45 minutes in advance. Yunluo and An Chuyu were worried that they would miss the flight. As soon as they got off the subway, they ran all the way to Ana's counter to check in. There were only 25 minutes left before take off. As a result, the flight attendant checked in Yunluo and An Chuyu very leisurely and told them the boarding gate.
Yunluo was surprised why she was so calm. Later, she heard that if Ana's flight was a domestic flight, she only needed to arrive 15 minutes in advance. How calm was she? The plane from Osaka to Sapporo was very small, with only a few dozen seats. After getting their things, Yunluo and An Chuyu boarded the plane. Yunluo and An Chuyu are here in Hokkaido.
After about an hour of flight, the plane landed smoothly at New Chitose Airport. After getting off the plane, a shuttle bus will come to pick up the passengers and take them all the way to the airport. After the bus stops, the driver and another staff member on the bus stand in the front of the bus and keep bowing to the passengers getting off the bus. Yunluo can't understand what they are saying.
But they just kept bowing, which seemed to mean thank you. The service attitude was really good, and Yunluo and An Chuyu were a little shocked. After picking up the luggage at Sapporo Station, you can go to the JR station to buy a ticket to Sapporo Station, 1070 yen per ticket, 37 minutes to the station, there is a high possibility that there will be no seats, so you have to stand all the way.
If you have a JR ticket, you can reserve a seat in advance. It was the first time that Yunluo saw snow on the rails. After arriving at the JR station, Yunluo and An Chuyu went to the hotel to put down their things. As soon as Yunluo got out of the station, she was shocked. It was snowing outside. Not to mention snowing, Yunluo had never seen snow in her life. At that moment, she was really excited and had mixed feelings.
No matter how hot it is outside, I just ran out to step on the snow and touch it with my hands. It was so beautiful! I completely experienced the excitement of the southern children when they saw the snow for the first time! Even now, I am writing and looking at the photos, and the feeling keeps coming up~! Before coming here, I kept seeing news in Xiangjiang City saying that
There is a lot of snow in Sapporo this year, so please be careful. At this time, Yunluo doesn't care whether the snow is heavy or not. It feels so happy! And it seems that the snow in Sapporo has been falling for a while. The snow is very thick. It is cotton snow, very light and thin, and not easy to melt. It turns out that the snow really makes a crackling sound when you step on it!
Now it's time to tell a story, this is a true story about late-night ramen. After leaving the hotel, Yunluo and An Chuyu looked for something to eat. They originally planned to go to the famous Kanimoto, but when they asked there, they found that all the seats were fully booked that night, and basically all the seats were booked until the 31st (but Yunluo and An Chuyu also ate there the next day, and I'll tell you the details later.) (To be continued...)