I suppose I wanted to pretend like it’s the north pole. In reality, the north coast of Hokkaido, the northernmost territory of Japan, is at a lower latitude than Portland, Oregon. What makes it seem so far north is the floating ice on the Sea of Okhotsk. Because this area of ocean […]
Tokyo is on the main island of Honshu. Sapporo is on the north island of Hokkaido. They are separated by about 23 kilometers of open ocean. I took the train.
Yes, believe it or not, you can travel the hundreds of kilometers between Tokyo and Sapporo, over mountainous terrain and the ocean, in […]
I left Kyoto in the morning on Thursday, January 26 on the limited express train to Nagano. Although Kyoto and Nagano are linked by the shinkansen, one has to change trains in Tokyo, which is out of the way to the southeast. So although the shinkansen is much faster, the trip ended up […]
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