The ground was wet. But it wasn't as cold as the legend said. Fortunately, the place we booked was close, and it was only a 3-minute walk away. Yunluo and An Chuyu went to put down their luggage first. The proprietress greeted Yunluo and An Chuyu in English, and she squatted down to help Yunluo and An Chuyu clean the wheels and the bottom of the box. I really want to recommend it again!
Aozora B&B in Hakodate! Such a heartwarming place! The specific pictures and introduction are in the hotel section, you can go back and have a look~ After putting down the luggage and taking a rest, Yunluo and Anchuyu set out to the restaurant next to Hakodate Station to find food~ This is Hakodate Morning Market, but when Yunluo and Anchu met, it was noon, many shops were closed, and the restaurant was still open.
So you can still see some seafood stalls selling things. When you come to Hakodate, you must eat the seafood donburi here. The portion is super large! It is also very fresh and tastes great! There are super beautiful models to choose from at the door of the store. There are many stores. You can choose what you like and then go in to eat. There are too many varieties. What should Yunluo do if he wants to eat them all!
Finally, I found a restaurant that has been reported in many newspapers and TV programs. I ordered a regular version of the seafood bowl. When it came up, my god, is this what you call a regular one? Slowly, a layer of sashimi and salmon roe appeared. Just looking at it made me feel super happy! Here is another close-up. Are you drooling? Hahaha~ It’s really delicious, and the taste is the freshest feeling.
I really don't know how to describe it. If you go to Hakodate, you must try it! After dinner, it was just the time for the bus to depart. The restaurant was only 5 minutes away from the bus stop. Yunluo and Anchuyu immediately set off to take a bus to see the monkeys. If you want to see monkeys bathing in hot springs, take a bus to the Tropical Botanical Garden, which is on the Yukawa side, about a 20-minute drive.
We went to the entrance of the botanical garden to buy tickets. The ticket seller asked Yunluo and An Chuyu where they were from. Yunluo said they were from China. The grandpa smiled and said weletojapan~ As soon as we entered the gate, we could see a pond. When we got closer, we saw that it was full of monkeys. Hahahaha, it was so funny! Some were catching lice in it, and some were eating in it.
Some put their hands on the edge of the pool to enjoy it, their faces were all red. It was really funny, just like boiling a monkey hahahahahahahahaha! There is also a greenhouse in the botanical garden, which is full of tropical plants. The plants that Yunluo and An Chuyu brought from the south are all plants that can be seen everywhere, so they just wandered around.
Suddenly I found out that the day Yunluo and An Chuyu went was the last day of the Tropical Botanical Garden in 2014. It was closed after that and it was reopened on Sunday. How lucky! Tropical Botanical Garden It was already dark when we returned to Hakodate Station from the Botanical Garden. We just followed the train schedule given to Yunluo by the station staff.
Yunluo and An Chuyu returned to the station just in time to catch the bus to Mt. Hakodate. They walked around the station to see the lights. There are lights in many places in Japan, and they are especially beautiful after nightfall. After waiting for a while, the bus came, and Yunluo and An Chuyu got on the bus and set off to see the night view of Mt. Hakodate. To go to Mt. Hakodate, you must first take a bus to the cable car station.
Then I bought a cable car ticket and queued up to the mountain to see the night view. The cable car one-way ticket is 660 yen, and the round-trip ticket is 1200 yen. After buying the ticket for Mt. Hakodate, I kept looking for the end of the queue, but I kept walking and walking and found that the end of the queue was more than 300 meters down the stairs.
Many tour guides were still counting the number of people. In the end, Yunluo and An Chuyu waited for nearly 20 minutes before they could get to the cable car platform. Many tour guides said "wow, why are there so many people today" as soon as they got off the car. When you reach the top of the mountain and continue walking up, you will see the night view of Hakodate, one of the three most famous night views in the world. It is as famous as Hong Kong City and Naples in Italy.
Because Hakodate is a port. The shape of the night view is also unique, with crisscrossing roads. The lights are bright, and the lights on the shore are reflected on the water. The halo is clearly visible. The night view is really intoxicating. After staying on the mountain for nearly half an hour, I returned to the original route and took the cable car back to the bottom of the mountain. Because of Japan's unique concept of time.
The cable car has a fixed arrival time, and there will be a sign telling you that the cable car will arrive in a few minutes. When we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we found that there were still many people waiting in line to go up the mountain. Yunluo and An Chuyu took the bus back to the JR station to find something to eat. There was a restaurant upstairs at the JR station, and Yunluo and An Chuyu didn't want to run around, so they ate here directly.
Surprisingly, the food tasted very good. The price was not expensive. I had a bowl of curry pork chop rice and a bowl of signature seafood noodles. I was very satisfied. Here is another episode. When Yunluo and An Chuyu were taking the bus to Mt. Hakodate, the two Taiwanese people in the row in front of Yunluo and An Chuyu were chatting all the time. Yunluo and An Chuyu were still saying that they were Taiwanese people.
As a result, when I returned to the B&B and was about to go downstairs to take a shower, I found that the two Taiwanese people were living in the room downstairs from Yunluo and An Chuyu. What a coincidence! Today is my last day in Hokkaido. I changed the ticket for the 11 o'clock train to Tokyo in Sapporo in advance. I got up early in the morning to take my luggage downstairs and set off for Hakodate Morning Market.
Official website of Hakodate Morning Market: /First, Yunluo and An Chuyu come to have a casual breakfast first~ No kidding, eating the seafood bowl in Hakodate will be addictive. After Yunluo returned to Xiangjiang City, he kept looking for where to eat, and he always wanted to eat Japanese food because it was really fresh!
Yunluo ordered a mixed bowl of sea urchin + crab meat + crab legs + salmon roe + egg, which was so satisfying! The sea urchin tasted very fresh! This one was An Chuyu, with shrimp + egg + salmon roe + crab meat + crab legs + scallops + fish roe! After eating, we went to the Hakodate Morning Market. Because there are many tourists from Taiwan, the shop owners basically speak very basic Mandarin.
When Yunluo and An Chuyu were walking around, they encountered various tour guides from Baodao who were introducing tourists to the door. It was the first time in so many days that they heard so many people speaking Mandarin, which was very friendly~! They came across a fruit shop, and the owner spoke Mandarin fluently. He also recommended Hokkaido cantaloupe to Yunluo and An Chuyu. Yunluo and An Chuyu ordered a box of strawberries.
He directly deducted the fraction and gave discounts to Yunluo and An Chuyu. Haha~ Why is the cantaloupe in Hokkaido so famous? You will know it after you eat it. It is really sweet, but not greasy. It is not the crispy taste of the domestic cantaloupe. The cantaloupe here is soft. King octopus legs! The sucker is so big! There is a pond in the Hakodate Morning Market, which is full of squids.
You can fish by yourself. After you catch it, the store staff will make it into sashimi and eat it right on the spot! You can also buy some seafood when you come to Hakodate Morning Market and share it with your friends. The prices in the small shops outside the market are usually a little cheaper than those inside the market. This may be because of the rent and entry fees. The prices inside the market are basically the same, so you can bargain.
The boss used a computer to calculate the price, and if you felt it was not suitable, you could calculate it yourself and ask the boss for his opinion. However, the boss basically spoke Mandarin when it came to the price, so direct communication was also possible. After buying souvenirs, Yunluo and An Chuyu returned to the B&B, said goodbye to the boss, and then took their luggage to the station to take a train to Tokyo~!
See you next time in Hokkaido~! This is the coffee that the lady boss of Qingkong B&B ran to deliver to Yunluo and An Chuyu before they left. The strawberries bought at the Hakodate Morning Market are also super delicious, all of them are big, and they are so satisfying to eat! Regarding the transportation problem from Hokkaido to Tokyo. You need to transfer to take the Shinkansen from Hakodate to Tokyo, and you have to get off at Shin-Aomori and then get on the train.
When booking seats, you can book the whole journey together. If you want to stay longer in Shin-Aomori, you can book them separately. The whole journey takes 5-6 hours. If you depart from Sapporo to Tokyo, you also need to change trains, and the whole journey takes 8-9 hours. It only takes about 15 minutes to change trains when you arrive at Shin-Aomori Yunluo and Anchuyu.
They dragged their luggage to another platform. On the way, Yunluo and An Chuyu bought lunch boxes at the platform. They were very rich and full of fresh seafood. The shellfish was super sweet! On this train, Yunluo met the second person who spoke English very well that Yunluo had met in Japan. He was an 80-year-old good man.
Because Yunluo and An Chuyu's suitcases were too big, they were worried that they would hinder the movement of the passengers inside. Yunluo asked if they could change seats so that it would be more convenient, and he agreed immediately. After sitting down, the old man took the initiative to ask Yunluo how Yunluo could speak English and where he came from. Yunluo said that Yunluo was from China. Later in the chat, he said that he used to be a translator.
So he speaks English well, retired at 60, and is now 80 years old. He also asked Yunluo about his impression of Japan, and he also said that China is getting better and better and stronger. They chatted about various things, and an old man was very enthusiastic about introducing Yunluo to what he thought was fun in Japan. He recommended delicious food to Yunluo. Until he got off the bus in Sendai.
He said, "Hope i can see you again~" This trip was made more fun by this amiable Japanese old man~ At about 4pm, Yunluo and An Chuyu arrived at Tokyo Station! Tokyo! Yunluo and An Chuyu are here! I've heard that Tokyo has so many subway lines that even the locals may not know them all.
Although I was mentally prepared, I was still shocked when I saw the subway map. Fortunately, there was a tourist information center at the station. Yunluo and An Chuyu went to the JR station to exchange their tickets from Tokyo to Kyoto, and then asked how to get to Yunluo and An Chuyu's hotel. Amazingly, when Yunluo asked for directions to the hotel.
The staff took out the hotel's route map directly from a large folder. There were all the surrounding stations and so on, so every hotel in Tokyo could find a corresponding exclusive map here. I have to admire that the Japanese always think a little more than others. The staff told Yunluo how to take the bus and what bus to take.
After getting out of the station, how to get there and how long it takes, Yunluo was so clear that she even suspected that she lived nearby. After the consultation, she asked Yunluo where she was from. Yunluo said China, and she said welcome to Tokyo~ Although it was already the 7th day that Yunluo and An Chuyu had been in Japan, she still felt very happy to hear it~ The hotel where Yunluo and An Chuyu stayed was near Ginza.
After putting away the things, we set out to see the legendary Ginza. As expected, there are all kinds of international brands here, giving it a luxurious and high-end feel. I have to say, Tokyo is really fun to visit. Yunluo and An Chuyu spent nearly 3 hours in a clothing store, buying a lot of things, and the checkout was only about half of the price in China.
It's really a place that drives people bankrupt! After walking around for a while, I still had to find something to eat. I found a sushi restaurant called Tsukiji Sushi King.
I don't remember the details, there weren't many people inside, a few regular customers sat next to the sushi and chatted with the sushi chef, Japanese sushi restaurants all have this kind of atmosphere, very friendly feeling, although I couldn't understand what they were saying, but the atmosphere was very good. I ordered a sushi platter, Yunluo was really amazed!
After eating sushi in Japan, I didn't want to eat it again. Yunluo, who doesn't eat raw fish, finished most of the sashimi in this plate. There was no fishy smell at all. It melted in the mouth, with a little bit of wasabi. I don't know how to describe the feeling. Yunluo ate it and it was immediately gone.
I was amazed and said, "It's really delicious. Why is it so delicious?" After eating sushi, there was a dessert, red bean matcha jelly. After eating, Yunluo and An Chuyu walked back to the hotel to rest. After all, they had to get up early the next day to go to Tsukiji and Mount Fuji. The reason for booking this hotel is not only because it is close to Ginza. It is mainly because it is very close to Tsukiji!
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It's only a 10-minute walk away! Yunluo and An Chuyu got up at 4am and set off at 5am. Now they got a cup of free coffee downstairs in the hotel, asked for directions, and set off to the world's largest seafood market! Tokyo at 5am. At first, they thought there were not many people on the road, but suddenly a large group of people came out after passing an intersection.
They all walked in the same direction. It turned out that so many people came to see the Tsukiji Market, which was open on the last day of 2014. About the closing time of Tsukiji Market. As we walked into Tsukiji Market, there were more and more people. There were people everywhere on the street. There were already many people queuing up to buy noodles in the noodle shop next to it. Many shops had staff standing by.
There are signs to indicate where the end of the line is. Come here and line up. This shop sells tamagoyaki, and there are many people lining up. And here the line is separated, and the line is folded several times in front of the shop. The line at the back is on the opposite side of the sidewalk, lined up in a row, so that it will not affect other passers-by or the business of other shops.
Yunluo waited in line for about 20 minutes before buying Yunluo's tamagoyaki. Because Yunluo was carrying a camera, the staff asked Yunluo if he needed someone to translate, whether to speak Chinese or English. Then they found a clerk who could speak Chinese to introduce Yunluo to the ingredients of each type. There were boxes of crab legs on the street. The line at this rice ball shop lasted for nearly half an hour.
Many of the people buying things are locals, who come with orders and buy dozens of items. The boss will not speed up because there are many people in line, but will always receive customers, take rice balls, calculate the money, and pack them in bags at a steady speed. Everyone queues up obediently without complaining. From dusk to dawn, more and more people come, and the market becomes more and more lively.
Seeing the time, it was 7 o'clock in the morning. Yunluo and An Chuyu went to the noodle shop outside to line up to buy a bowl of noodles. The shops here are very small. But the lines are basically winding for several bends, and there are basically no seats in the noodle shops here. Everyone eats with their hands or puts the food on the cardboard boxes next to them. This noodle shop seems to be run by a family.
Dad An Chuyu and his son, An Chuyu is responsible for collecting money, while dad and son are responsible for cooking noodles, adding meat, scooping soup and adding green onions. Only 7-9 bowls are cooked at a time, and the next batch will be lined up after one batch is cooked. Yunluo feels that the culture and characteristics of Japan as a whole can be reflected in Tsukiji Market. Everything is slow and orderly, and will not be rushed because of the large number of people.
Everything should be done as it should be done. If I want to talk about this, I can talk about it for several days. After eating ramen, Yunluo and An Chuyu took the subway to Shinjuku, ready to go to Mount Fuji~ About going to Mount Fuji. Because Yunluo had checked this section of transportation before and it was really difficult to do, Yunluo directly searched for "Mount Fuji Day Tour".
There are many special packages available on Mafengwo and other travel websites. You can choose different packages according to your preferences. The one Yunluo bought is 399 RMB, which includes a trip to Mount Fuji, Oshino Hakkai, the Fifth Station, Kawaguchiko, Shiraito Falls, Hongu Sengen Shrine, lunch and a bus to and from Tokyo.
The tour guide was very nice and the whole trip was great. Yunluo and Anchu met at the hotel in Shinjuku at 8:30 and then set off for Mount Fuji together. The first stop was Oshino Hakkai. Here I will first talk about what Oshino Hakkai is. [Oshino Hakkai is a group of springs located in Oshino Village, Yamanashi Prefecture. The snow water from Mount Fuji flows through the strata for decades and is filtered into clear spring water.
The ponds are formed by seepage from 8 places. The beautiful rural scenery, the rippling water and the beautiful Mount Fuji are integrated into one. The scenery is so beautiful that it has been selected as one of the 100 famous waters, and has also been recognized as a natural monument and one of the new 100 views of Mount Fuji. The "Hakkai" in Oshino Hakkai means eight ponds.
The eight ponds are the Tsukike, Mud Pond, Mirror Pond, Choshi Pond, Shobu Pond, Ditsu Pond, Okama Pond, and Departure Pond, all of which are filled with natural water from Mt. Fuji. The water in these ponds is the snow and rain that falls on the highlands of Mt. Fuji, and is filtered by Mt. Fuji for many years before being accumulated underground.
The filtration time is even more than 20 years, so the water quality is clear and transparent, which is the biggest feature of Oshino Hakkai. The water here is really exceptionally clear. There are several pools that are 6-8 meters deep, but you can still clearly see the water plants and fish at the bottom of the pool. So some people say this is the Jiuzhaigou of Japan. You can vaguely see Mount Fuji in the village.
Can you see Mount Fuji in the distance? This pond is 8 meters deep! It is so clear that you can clearly see the bottom of the pond! It is really beautiful! The tofu and grass cakes of Oshino Hakkai are very famous. They are sold in the scenic area. You can buy some and try them. Then Yunluo and An Chuyu took a car to the place closest to Mount Fuji. (To be continued...)