What the kid gave was not white wine but orange juice. Damn, Yunluo also wants to drink orange juice, who wants to drink alcohol? QAQAfter dinner, YAMASAN played guitar downstairs. When I went downstairs to drink water, the other couple from Sihai City were confirming the itinerary for the next day with YAMASAN, so I chatted with them for a while.
Yamasan is 65 years old, which should be the retirement age. He is also very tired from running the PENSION for many years (preparing meals is really hard, Yunluo thinks it takes almost two hours every time), and is considering selling the PENSION. So if you want to live there, you should hurry up... I am still very tired after riding a bike all day.
So I didn't have the energy to call my mom at night, because she fell asleep before 10 o'clock - it was unprecedented.
Early to bed and early to rise is good for health. Although I felt very tired from cycling the day before, I didn't feel tired at all after a good sleep. I don't know if it's because of the balanced nutrition and healthy work and rest in the past two days, but in short, I feel quite energetic. Breakfast. In the morning, after paying the fee with YAMASAN, I picked up my luggage and set off at 8:10 as usual and was sent to Nakafurano Station.
After saying goodbye to YAMASAN, we took the 8:25 bus and arrived at Biei Station at 8:54. In fact, when we were planning our trip, we thought it would be more convenient for Yunluo and Anchuyu to stay in Biei. We left our luggage at Biei Station and found the Dohoku bus to Shirogane Onsen on a crossroad in front of Biei Station. We set off at 9:26 and arrived at the entrance of the Blue Pond at 9:46.
But in reality, Yunluo felt that we drove for a long time... It really felt like a rural area QAQ The road became more and more deserted. There were also many Koreans in the car. There was no formal road at the entrance of the Blue Pond. It was all gravel, so it was quite difficult to walk. There were many people coming and going. It took about four or five minutes to walk to the edge of the Blue Pond. There were already many people gathered by the wooden railings.
But to be honest, it's not as good as in the photos. For people who have been to Jiuzhaigou, it's just average. The light is a bit dim, but it may be better in the afternoon. The bus back is at 10:24, there are only four buses a day, and there is really nothing there, just trees, trees, trees. So you must control your time.
But the Blue Pond is really small and you can see it in less than five minutes, unless you want to keep taking pictures there. I came out very early and wanted to see the White Birch Street next to it, but I didn't know where it was so I gave up. I saw it on the way back by bus, but it was still a little far from the Blue Pond.
I didn't drive myself, so I gave up... I got back to Biei Station before 11 o'clock. I went to a curry udon shop called Koiya in front of Biei Station and waited for it to open. Why is it that Yunluo and An Chuyu always have the image of holding a bowl and tapping chopsticks waiting for the meal to start? This shop has a large hall, which is an unexpected surprise. I ordered grilled udon, and the curry was very flavorful and delicious.
Curry is also one of Biei's specialties. It's rare to come across a curry-flavored staple food that Yunluo thinks is very good. After eating, I went to Biei Station to pick up my luggage and rest for a while, and took the local train back to Asahikawa. Because I didn't know how long I would spend in Biei that day, I didn't reserve a seat. I slept all the way back to Sapporo Station, and originally wanted to buy tickets for the next day.
I was going to use the Sapporo Otaru WelcomePass, but I got lazy and thought I would go back to the hotel to put my luggage away and then go out to buy the same one, but I forgot! ——This story is told to Yunluo and An Chuyu, it was because the plane was too slow the day before! (Hey XD Back to SUNROUTE, I can check in, so I left my luggage and continued to pretend for a while.
Then we went shopping. Tanukikoji leads to the underground street that connects JR Sapporo to Susukino. In fact, there are many small shops besides the subway station, and there are many department stores all the way to Sapporo Station. Near Odori Station is Mitsukoshi Marui Imai, and near Sapporo Station are Daimaru, APIA, ESTA, PASEO, STELLARPLACE, etc.
First, I went to Mitsukoshi to help my sister look at children's shoes. As a result, there were many elderly people queuing upstairs for tasting...orz Then I went to bigcamera, Disneyshop, loft, 100-yen shop and drugstore near the JR station, but basically there was nothing to bring for others... I wandered around a few shopping malls at the JR station and went to have dinner.
We had dinner at Ramen Republic on the upper floor of ESTA. Su had always wanted to eat ramen with butter. He said that when he was a child, he saw in Doraemon that Suneo went to Sapporo to show off to Nobita and his friends that the ramen he ate in Sapporo had a piece of butter in it, so he had been dreaming about it for more than ten years... I think every restaurant should have butter.
Yunluo and An Chuyu chose SORA at the exit. The butter melted in an instant, so you could only eat one or two bites of butter-flavored soup. QAQ One piece is not enough! At least 10 pieces of butter, right? But in fact, every store should have butter, so you can look at each store and make a choice.
I don't have many photos when I go shopping. QAQ I can't remember what I did without photos. So if possible, I'd better use my camera to record everything on the way. I only remembered it after I got back and forgot to buy it.
We had breakfast at SUNROUTE. Yunluo and Anchuyu forgot to buy the pass, so they had to spend more money on subway tickets to go to the JR station to buy the pass. What a sin. If they didn't need to buy it, they could just walk to Odori Station and take the Tozai Line to Miyanozawa... Now after buying the ticket, they have to take the Namboku Line to Odori and then change to the Tozai Line, which is really troublesome.
There is a statue in the green window of JR Sapporo Station. It is the statue of Dr. Clark, the first president of Sapporo Agricultural School, the predecessor of Hokkaido University, who was riding on a horse and shouted "Boys, beambitious!" to the teachers and students who saw him off when he passed by Shimamatsu near Sapporo on his way back to the United States. The Sapporo Otaru WelcomePass contains a one-day subway ticket.
A JRPASS ticket for the all-you-can-eat Sapporo-Otaru train. You need to take it out to use the turnstile. Exit Miyanozawa Station on the Tozai Line. Walk for about six or seven minutes and you will see the Shiroi Koibito chocolate factory. A dreamy factory. I bought a ticket for the tour on the bottom floor of the clock tower. The ticket includes a passport and a Shiroi Koibito cookie. There are many cat paws on the stairs going up.
Go up the stairs and you will see a place where you can take photos with the huge Shirokoi cookies. Are you visiting the factory to commemorate the occasion? Going further in, you will see the Aurora Fountain, which was built around 1870. Going upstairs from the fountain is the connecting passage you can see from the front, which leads to the chocolate factory. The ceiling in the corridor is made of stained glass.
The sunlight shines through the colored glass and is projected onto the retro floor tiles, which is very beautiful. Until around the 18th century, chocolate was consumed by the nobility as a beverage. Therefore, many European classical and precious tea sets are displayed on both sides of the corridor. There is also a display of chocolate packaging in the past. When you arrive at the chocolate factory building, there is a chocolate time tunnel.
Inside the entire glass is a 3D model with a button below that you can press. When you press it, a floating projection image will play the chocolate production process of a British chocolate factory in the 19th century. At the same time, the 3D model behind the image will also move. Going further in, you will see the highlight: the entire production process of White Lover cookies. The factory is downstairs.
So through the large glass, you can clearly see the whole process from making cookies to packing and sealing. There are also many questions and answers on the outer wall to tell you a lot of little knowledge. There is also a temperature sensor, which can feel the temperature at each step. The sandwich is pressed into two biscuits, and then the staff sorts out the defective ones and throws them away.
into the plastic bag next to it. Stavsan! What Yunluo wants is the inferior bulk White Lover! Why don't you sell them in a bag? Yunluo really doesn't want the ones with such delicate packaging. Anyway, it's more economical to give them to the family in bulk! ←I dream of having bulk White Lover. A glass window over there, the biscuits that were identified as finished products were put into the machine.
The biscuits are swept into the aisle row by row and then transferred to the packaging machine. There is also a sorting staff in front of the packaging machine. If the packaging aisle is blocked, the biscuits will be taken out and put in when there is an empty space. In this way, there will be no empty packaging. The staff waiting behind the packaging machine will box and seal the packaged biscuits.
I counted 6 production lines in total. Are all the Hakuren in Japan produced here? To make you not bored (there are no production lines, so you can have fun), there are many cartoon sculptures above the factory, and many of them are moving. Going forward, there is also a cookie hand-made experience workshop that requires advance reservation.
The Café on the top floor is awesome! The cake workshop outside displays a lot of cakes and sugar flowers. There are also all kinds of super beautiful snacks for sale. The Café is surrounded by antique furniture made in England. From the large glass window at the top, you can see Mt. Teine, the football field, and the atrium of Shirokoi Park.
During the chocolate carnival at the Clock Tower, you can also watch the puppet activities up close. I didn't want to wait for a seat, so I sat in a seat that was not near the window. Since you can't change seats after sitting down, you have to wait patiently if you want to sit by the window. I had high expectations for Rollcake.
When I first saw this plump white cake in the brochure of Shiroi Koibito biscuits, I always wanted to eat it. I've been thinking about it for two or three years, but it's really sweet! Really sweet! I didn't pay much attention to the milk flavor, I just noticed that it was very sweet... So I didn't even think about buying one at the airport to take back.
I also ordered TSUMUGI, which you can choose to dip in, such as cream chocolate. You can eat it without the sauce, but Yunluo thinks it's a bit hard, not as delicious as I imagined, and the taste is not very strong. Classic White Lover ice cream. I originally thought that the white lover biscuits are only delicious with white fillings, and the ice cream should be the same.
I think it's not as good as chocolate. The chocolate flavor makes it more appealing to eat. The classic product has its own reasons. The pinnacle of Ishiya Confectionery is still the White Lover Cookies. Although I'm tired of eating them... Not long after I sat down, it was the hourly show time. It's really close and clear here.
After having morning tea, we continued to browse along the entrance path. First, there was a corner about quality inspectors, which contained Shirokoi cookies, Midori, etc. Wait, isn't this just a job of eating and eating? XD Candies in the corner. Going down the stairs, there was a display of dolls of the Little Choir, and then there were displays of various phonographs, and performances at fixed times.
There is a row of 101s with tilted heads above the phonograph room. When the button on the display cabinet is pressed, the phonograph will start to play various music. After leaving the phonograph room, there is a "toy box for children in the past", where a life-size Astro Boy is placed for taking photos, various toy collections from the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods, and peripherals of heroes active in the world such as Batman.
There are even a lot of athlete merchandise. Going downstairs from the toy box is the store. First is the candy factory. There is a Ferris wheel capsule machine at the door. You can spin out a different bag of candy by inserting 100 yen. The enclosed glass room is the candy making site. The store leads to the big staircase upstairs to the toy box. The store sells various products of Ishiya Confectionery.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Shiroi Koibito, Midu. Drinks, puffs, rollcakes. TSUMUGI, etc., accepting nationwide delivery orders. Business is not too good. Orz. The super exaggerated annual rings in the counter. After leaving the building is the atrium. You can see the rose garden, the clock tower, etc. Going further back is the legendary train, Shiroi Koibito Railway.
The final stop is Shirakaba Station. It runs every 20 minutes for 300 yen. When I went there, it was about to start, so I quickly bought a ticket and got on the train. It was really a super cute little train: it departed from Shirakaba Station and went around the Dim Sum House. Why were the tourists passing by and the parking lot security guards happier than the people sitting on the train? They waved to Yunluo and An Chuyu. The road passing through the parking lot passed through a tunnel.
The top of the tunnel is decorated with bright luminous lights. The speed will slow down when passing through the vertical water column. After exiting the tunnel and passing through the forest, there is a super big white bear butt. It is said that the white bear who is greedy for chocolate buried his whole head in it. Haha, it can't be pulled out. The head of the white bear is inside the cave. There are many chefs fighting for chocolate above the cave.
One of them had his pants pulled up, revealing his flowery shorts... Then we returned to Shirakaba Station, which took about 10 minutes. A small tree house. A small train>
We returned to Miyanosawa in the sun, took the Tozai Line to Maruyama Park, and walked to Hokkaido Jingu Shrine. Every time I go, I have to visit the feudal superstitious places. I really want to go to Kyoto again. The main hall has the painted horse of Rilakkuma. In fact, the feudal superstitious places are all the same. You will get tired of seeing them. The floor tiles of Maruyama Park Station are all animals.
Because I got off at Maruyama Zoo. Only the pandas were clearly visible. Why was the style different from others? I returned to Sapporo Station and took out another PASS to Otaru. There were many trains between Sapporo and Otaru, and it would be faster if I used the express airport. The place near Otaru was the coastal railway again. I don't know if it was because the weather was particularly good that day.
The sea outside the window is so blue and beautiful. Especially the shore with flood prevention stones piled up, it makes people want to get off the train and walk around. Unfortunately, the windows are too dirty... Outside JR Otaru Station. Walk along Chuo-dori in front of Otaru Station towards the sea, and you will first see the remains of the old National Railway Temiya Line. It used to be a freight railway. Continue walking towards the sea and you will reach the Otaru Canal!
The beauty lies in the reflection! The weather was great! Of course, there were a lot of people beside the Otaru Canal, especially the Asakusa Bridge. Many people on school trips and senior groups took photos beside it. I had lunch at the Otaru Canal Shokudo near the Asakusa Bridge. I didn't want to eat ramen, so I ended up eating at Hokkaimaru. The specialty is grilled seafood? It's not cheap.
I ordered grilled beef and grilled pork. Across the Asakusa Bridge is Debato-do. Going south towards Otaru, there is a small canal with ducks in it. Going along the small canal, you will find the Taisho Sensoji Main Building. Even the tree at the entrance is decorated with glass. There are also many wind chimes tied on the canal, and the sound of the chimes is very pleasant when the breeze blows.
If I didn't think these things were hard to bring back, I would really want to buy them! The colorful and crystal clear glass is so beautiful. When I first met An, she said she would definitely like Otaru because there are desserts and glass. These are what she likes. There are many unique roads in Otaru (I'll mark this here to see if I have the energy to make a collection of Otaru "travels" XD).
Due to time constraints, I couldn't visit all of them properly, so I took a side trip to Sakaimachi Street. This street is basically lined with whistle museums and music box museums, or some old shops. If you can spend an afternoon, choose a few to visit. It's a very pleasant way to kill time. There are many glass artworks placed in front of many stores.
I saw a very small child tripping and falling to the ground - ah, the boss's heart must be broken, Yun Luo's heart must be broken Orz But the kind owner? Or the clerk? He immediately rushed out and asked anxiously if the child was okay, and it was unclear what happened afterwards... Kitaichi Shaozikan on Sakaimachi Street.
At the end of Sakaimachi Street is the biggest destination for Yunluo and Anchuyu: Rokkatei, Kitakaro, and the LeTAO main store at the intersection of fairy tales. First, they visited Rokkatei and Kitakaro. Then they went straight to LeTAO... for afternoon tea. The name LeTAO, in Japanese, is Rutao, which is based on the name of the building where the main store is located. (~^~)