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Arrival Hokkaido Island, Hakodate Foreign Heritage - Hakodate, Japan Hakodate, Japan Today was going to be a very busy day. I was leaving Tokyo and travelling to the north Island of Hokkaido. Still on unusual time I woke 4am and left the capsule hotel...

In 1590, the intrepid Matsumae clan settled in southern Hokkaido, Japan. This was the first time that ethnic Japanese from the mainland had attempted to settle in the northern ‘wild land’ of Ezo (Hokkaido). It would not be until 300 years later that...

Unless we are one of a bad souls cursed to a limbo of Southern Rail, steer ride as a sequence is something that, roughly dual centuries after Robert Stephenson’s invention of a Rocket, stays one of a many courteous ways of removing from A to B. It offers...

The 2016 Sakura Forecast by the Japan Weather Association Has Been Released! NATIONWIDE Feb 4, 2016 TAGS CHERRY BLOSSOM FORECAST HANAMI KYOTO MT. FUJI SAKURA SPRING TOKYO TWITTER FACEBOOK GOOGLE + PINTEREST When Setsubun holiday on February...

Irishman Walking is about my walking the coastal roads of Japan through a series of summer, winter, spring, and autumn stages. Stage 1 began in Cape Soya in Hokkaido in the summer of 2009, and ended in Noshiro City in Akita Prefecture seven weeks later...