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 […]
After seeing the snow monkeys at Yudanaka, I took an afternoon shinkansen from Nagano to Tokyo.
Japan Rail’s equivalent of Sky Mall, “Train Shop,” is like a glossy fish market in your lap. It sorta smells like it too (though this smell is probably from the last reader’s bento lunch).
Ah, an […]
The nearest Japan Rail station to the Sumidagawa Youth Hostel is Asakusabashi (ah-sahk-saba-shi). On the way there from the hostel, I stopped at a McDonald’s for some breakfast. I had a standard American-style breakfast sandwich, but I could have ordered an “EBI Fliet-O,” which contains shrimp.
While I was looking for a straw, I […]
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