Hear about travel to the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan as the Amateur Traveler talks to Inga from Inga’s Adventures about a trip to hike in the Daisetsuzan National Park.
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Why should someone go to Hokkaido?
Inga says, “The natural beauty is the main reason to go to Hokkaido. The rugged landscapes and the feeling that you’re far away from civilization is an experience. That you don’t find in a lot of other places on the main island of Japan, which is Honshu. Many beautiful places to go down there, but it’s a very different landscape in Hokkaido.”
Inga recommends this 7-day itinerary for travelers interested in exploring Hokkaido, particularly focusing on the Daisetsuzan National Park:
Day 1-2: Tokyo
Arrive in Tokyo and spend a day or two decompressing and adjusting to the time difference. Stay in a hotel near Tokyo Station for convenience.
Day 3: Tokyo to Sapporo
Exchange the JR rail pass for the Shinkansen train journey to Hokkaido. While you can fly directly to Hokkaido and save the 8-hour train journey, for Inga the journey was part of the point. You can watch the mountains rise up and the population thin out as you head north. Stay one night in Sapporo, exploring the city and visiting places like the Tokyo train station and the Sapporo Brewery. Inga and her husband also visited the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden and a museum about the Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido.
Day 4: Sapporo to Asahikawa
Take a train to Asahikawa, a smaller town. Explore Asahikawa, staying overnight.
Day 5-7: Asahikawa to Daisetsuzan National Park
Take a bus to Asahidake within Daisetsuzan National Park. Stay in a traditional onsen hotel in the park, such as Daisetsuzan Shirakaba Soryokan. Explore hiking trails, including the Sugatami Loop, nature trails, and hikes to the Nakadate Onsen. Enjoy the onsen experience in the hotel. Consider exploring other hikes within the national park if time allows. Return to Tokyo: Take a bus back to Asahikawa and a train from there to Hakodate. The journey back to Tokyo can be completed in the remaining two days, either by train or by taking a flight from Hokkaido.
Inga also mentions renting a car for more flexibility in exploring the national parks.
If you want a Japan experience with a heavy dose of hiking, ropeways, natural hot springs, and fumaroles consider heading north to Hokkaido.
Amateur traveler episode 877 today the amateur traveler talks about bullet trains and beer ferals and hot springs ropeways and hiking trails as we go to the island of Hokkaido in Northern Japan this is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler let’s talk about Hokkaido I’d like to welcome the show Inga aimit from inas adventures.com
Who’s come to talk to us about the northernmost region of Japan hak kaido ingga welcome to the show thank you so much I’m happy to be here excellent what’s your connection with Hokkaido my interest in going to Hokkaido is because I’m a real outdoorsy person and I love to hike and it seemed
Like with all the national parks that are located in Hokkaido that was a natural destination for me and my husband Steve excellent and why should some someone go to Hokkaido the natural beauty is the main reason to go to Hokkaido the rugged Landscapes the feeling that you’re far
Away from civilization is an experience that you don’t find in a lot of other places in the main island of Japan which is honu many beautiful places to go down there but it’s a very different landscape in Hokkaido what kind of itinerary are you going to recommend for
Us I’m going to recommend a 7-Day itinerary which will give the traveler a balanced experience between seeing towns on the island as well as getting out through the rugged natural landscape excellent where are we going to start I would imagine that most people will arrive in Japan in Tokyo
That’s how we arrived we were extremely jet lagged after the long flight and I am a person who no matter how much I do this I suffer from jet lag terribly so I like to allow a little bit of decompression time before I start moving around in the country so I recommend
Taking a day in Tokyo if you have it a couple of days is better and I understand that you have coverage on Tokyo and upcoming coverage so I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about what to do yeah we’ve got a couple different episodes on Tokyo that we’ve
Done in the past and we’ve actually got one that’s coming out in the next month we’ll give people lots information if they have more than a day in Tokyo in terms of what to do but you suggest I suggest that you stay one night in Tokyo
And we decided to stay at a hotel basically at the Tokyo Station this is one of the largest train stations in Tokyo one of the busiest train stations in the world and when we made that decision I wasn’t quite sure that was going to work out I’d been to Tokyo
Several times before but didn’t have a sense of what the landscape was around the train station but we ended up loving it these train stations are like little cities you could spend a whole day in the Tokyo train station it has everything you need it has retail shops restaurants convenience stores and so
For us it was very convenient to stay basically at the train station we were at the Metropolitan Hotel which is a Jr hotel it is operated by the Japan rail system oh and so we arrived completely jet lag disoriented we knew we were close to the train station we didn’t
Quite realize we were at the train station so we went out and got a cab and he tried to tell us something and I’m sure he was trying to tell us that if we just turned around and walked into another entrance we would be at our
Hotel and we just threw up our hands and said please take us somewhere so it ended up taking him about 10 minutes of driving to navigate around to the other entrance and then we did laugh when we got out of the car so we got a good
Night’s sleep and then went back to the train station to exchange our JR Rail Pass so we had purchased a pass on the internet and it is available to tourists but you have to exchange it in person with your passport and get the ticket that actually gets you on the train we
Were going to be in Tokyo for a few days if you only have a week I would recommend just going to the Jr office exchange your ticket and then get a reservation or just walk on the train to go up to Hokkaido so in my itinerary I’m going to give Travelers a
Way to do this only using public transportation ground transportation and not having to fly if people want to make it more efficient you certainly can fly it might even be a little bit cheaper but for us we love trains and the opportunity to travel on the bullet
Train the shin Consin train was part of our journey it was part of the experience that we wanted so the train goes up to the island of Hokkaido and before I start talking more about the itinerary I did want to emphasize that it is really easy to
Travel around Japan you don’t need a tour you don’t need a private driver you don’t need a guide it’s very safe the stations are all spotlessly clean it’s incredibly efficient do not be 1 minute late for your train or it will be gone that is true okay so even if you choose
To fly back I would encourage people to consider taking ground transportation maybe on the way up and then making it more efficient to to fly back to Tokyo or wherever they’re headed after that so the shin Consin tracks are usually in the separate part of whatever train
Station you’re in right this would be our second day would be going up to the island of Hokkaido so when we were planning we were trying to figure out how it got over or under the water it just wasn’t very apparent even from Reading multiple sources how that worked
And so we just decided it was going to work out somehow our ticket actually said hakodate in Hokkaido so we knew that the ticket got us over there so we thought when we get there maybe they transfer to a regular train or maybe there’s a ferry or when you swim or I
Don’t know what I noticed that one of the passengers was getting really active and looking out the window at one point towards the end of the journey and it turns out there’s an undersea tunnel and it only opened I believe in 2016 so since that time you’ve been able
To take the bullet train straight up to the island unfortunately it doesn’t go all the way to saporo which was our destination it goes up to a town on the very end of the island and then you transfer to a regular train so we went a
Very long distance in 4 hours and then it took us another four hours to get to Hokkaido going a fairly short distance so we noticed in saporo that they were building a train station separate from the regular station for the shinc Consin and so I looked it up and it looks like
They’re estimating around 2030 is when the train will go all the way to seoro now just to clarify so Tokyo to hak was four hours it’s interesting because it’s like a 12-hour Drive I was just looking it up so you can see why flying might be a
Good option but the the shin conson is quite efficient okay yeah it’s a great way to experience how people actually travel in Japan although a lot of Japanese said why did you take the train you could have just flown but I hear a lot of Travelers saying they want want
To travel like a local and this truly is how people get around thousands of people take the train every single day to go to work they travel this way to see family and it’s a nice way to see the terrain changing I noticed about two hours into the train ride going up the
Main island that you could really feel how the population density was easing up more Mountains were starting to pop up or at least little Hills first and then bigger mountains so I got sense of excitement I get when I’m getting near Wilder areas I started getting really
Excited about the hiking that we were going to do so we did end up taking the train for eight hours so that’s a long travel day it’s very comfortable the ride is very smooth they have snack carts that run up and down the train and you can buy lunch and snacks before you
Go it is a long travel day so we got to saporo and basically just ate dinner and went to bed the next day we did spend one full day in saporo and the things that we wanted to do were get outside a little bit we had been on this train for
Eight hours so we wanted to be able to walk around and we wanted to go to the saporo brewery okay so we found the University Botanical Garden which was quite near the train station we stayed about a block away from the train station and walked to the botanical
Gardens which was a very lovely shaded it was pretty warm that day but it was a beautiful blue sky day so it was nice to get out and stretch our legs a little bit and then within this Botanical Garden were two museums and they were very interesting so one of
Them was a natural history museum so we got to see examples of lots of the animals that are native to Hokkaido and then they also had an indigenous culture Museum so we got an introduction to the Inu people and I know there’s an article on your website about the Inu people the
Indigenous tribes that inhabited this island before it was taken over by Japan so that was a really great introduction to that part of Japan where we were going to spend the next few days by the time we saw the garden and the two museums it was time to get a little
Break and go to the brewery so we ended up walking it’s quite a a long walk but we’re big hikers and and we enjoyed that you can get a taxi easily and went over to the saporo brewery they have tours that you can join but they also have a
Really nice self-guided tour that we did and then a beer tasting of course and this was available in English or are you fluent in Japanese in English yeah okay yeah it’s actually it was great they had different stations and you walked around from Station to Station they were numbered so you could
Tell where you were going and then at the beginning of the station would be a little rack with a bunch of cards oversized cards and they were all different languages so you could just pick up the English card read it walk along a little bit drop that card and
Then move to the next station so it was really set up very efficiently which doesn’t surprise me because everything’s very efficient in Japan the beer tasting was great if you like beer and then they also have a really nice restaurant we had heard good things about it but we
Didn’t really understand what it was all about and I’m really glad we went there because they featured a meal it’s a famous dish that originated in Hokkaido you grill the meat at the table which is similar to other meals in Japan other dishes but it’s a little bit different
We had other meals later on where you grilled on a grate with a fire underneath this features a heated Dome this dish is called the gangas Khan dish dish and it said that it’s because this domed method of cooking resembles the helmet of the the warrior so in Japanese
I think it’s pronounced something like Jin jusan but it is in reference to genoshan so the way it works is you order whatever cuts of meat you want and they bring very thin tender strips of lamb is what we ordered and then you can also order vegetables so they give you a
Little hunk of lard you put it on the top of the Dome and it drips down into a rim and so we arranged the onions and cabbage around this rim and then we cook the meat on top of the Dome and it cooks very quickly but the fat is collecting
Down in the rim and that’s what flavors and Cooks the vegetables so it was really delicious and that’s what everybody was having around us so I was really happy to be able to experience a typical meal that that was unique to that part of the country and we never saw that on the
Menu again in any other part of Japan so that was fun and then the other thing was fun about that is they had a robot waiter and I’d read about those in Tech news but I’d never actually been to a restaurant that had a robot waiter so
That was very entertaining for a lot of people around us it didn’t seem like it was that common in Japan either I never saw one at another restaurant but to see the robots zipping around assisting the regular Waiters it’s something that you’re going to see in Japan before you see it
Elsewhere because of their population pyramid is all screwed up they’re they don’t have as many people who would be able to do service level jobs and they have a lot of older people who need service and so they certainly are experimenting with all sorts of service robots in their economy yeah it was
Great to see because we have a we have some challenges too with sometimes trying to find help in our country yeah that was fun so we stayed overnight but for the 7-Day itinerary I would recommend taking the train to the next town because it’ll just make things a
Little more efficient and get people up into the more remote areas okay of the country that they probably are there to see I would head back to the train station and take the train to the next town which would be asahikawa asahikawa is a small town There’s trains that go all through the
Day and even evening up until 10 or 11 at night there’s trains that go different speeds so when you look up the amount of time it might take it’ll depend on the train that you choose but it could be an hour and a half to 3 hours depending on the schedule I would
Just head up and spend the night there and then take the bus to Assa hake which is inside the national park and this is one of the areas that’s accessible easily by the train and bus combination if you choose to stay in saporo that next night you can also take the train
In the morning it’s just a little tricky to line up with the bus if you want to try to take the train and the bus on the same day there’s um only four bus times from asahikawa and those are at 79 1 and 3 so
If you get up late and take the long train you might miss the 300 p.m bus so either way works out but if you want to head straight up to the mountain I would travel on that saporo day get up to asahikawa it’s a pleasant town to
Walk around in but there’s not a lot of tourist activities to do there we’re pretty far north in Japan and we’re also then going up into the mountains and all the pictures I’m seeing have snow what time of year were you there really good point this is a summer
Adventure unless you want to go skiing uh so it’s either a summer or winter but if you want to go hiking think about how you would plan to go to the Sierra or the Rockies or maybe even Alaska the latitude of this region of Hokkaido is similar to Southern Oregon
Okay however they are heavily influenced by Siberian weather patterns so there’s some aspects of their weather that are more similar to Alaska they have permafrost they get a lot of snow and they get these blasting cold winds so we were there at the end of September beginning of October and that was
Probably about the last week for comfortable summer hiking the next week or 10 days later after we had left they got their first snow their first significant snow so the area that we’re heading also has cross country skiing so it’s a big winter sports area that also
Would be a really fun destination but not for hiking got it in Assa hiawa everything’s so terribly well-coordinated when we came out of the train station we wanted to check out where the bus stop was going to be for the next day and we walked out and
There’s the bus terminal right there in front of the station it’s just not complicated at all the directions that we got from the hotel we were going to stay in on the mountain told us to go look for the Lawson’s convenience store and I wasn’t familiar with Lawson but it’s a very common
Convenience store like our 7eleven okay so there’s Lawson stores everywhere so we spotted the Lawson we went over there they had an ATM next to the Lawson was the ticket office for the bus but you can also buy tickets on the bus itself from the bus driver so once we got that
All figured out we checked into our hotel which was at the train station because we found that we really enjoyed the convenience of that so we stayed in another Jr in property and they were able to provide us with more information about the bus and all the different
Times and all that one of the things we loved about this hotel which I saw in a bunch of other places on the main island was the pillow bar right next to the check-in counter was this little skinny room with all these slots and they have a dozen
Different kinds of pillows and so if you don’t like the pillow in your room it was it’s such a fantastic idea yeah so they have a little diagram of how firm it is and what it’s stuffed with and they have feathers and they have all great idea I was like this is
Genius it’s just funny the side things you find that make travel really fun so from ASA hiawa to Assa hake is about a 90 minute bus ride we took the bus in the morning and were able to explore a little bit in the afternoon so I did want to mention that the bus
Picked us up at the train station but then the next stop was at the airport so they actually have an airport in Assa hiawa and so it would be very convenient if you wanted to fly from Tokyo straight there and get into the outdoor activities as quickly as possible if
That’s your goal then you would only have the 90minut bus ride to asah D have to make sure I get those names right because they’re so similar right so this town is it’s a little village it’s not even a town it doesn’t have any Services it just has hotels and a ropeway which
Is their name for a cable car or a tram so there’s two of these fairly close to each other within a day’s walk and so the only services that are available are ones associated with the ropeway and lodging if you need to bring cash if you need to have everything you need with
You you you won’t be able to buy much of anything there so we stayed at a traditional onen so one thing I learned on this trip was the different ways that onen is used so your Travelers who have been to Japan may know this but I had to
Figure it out because anen means Hot Springs right so the ASA hake is also an onon but it’s an Anson town so they built a little village around the concept of the Hot Springs so we stayed in an anen hotel in a anen town and then
One of our hikes went to an ANS in which was just a natural Hot Springs there was nothing built around it it was just a hole in the Earth where the water was warm so three different ways to use that concept we stayed in a hotel it was
Called the daet suzan shirakaba so rokan so daet suzan is the the name of the national park we went to there’s actually seven national parks in Hokkaido this is the largest one it has the largest mountain which goes to over 7,000 ft not terribly High compared to
What we’re used to in California or the Rockies but still pretty high for Japan there are a number of different price points and you can make your choices about where you want to stay based on that but we stayed in a traditional onson so they had Western and
Traditional rooms so we decided to go for the traditional room and did find that the futon mats are pretty firm very firm and you’re sleeping pretty much on the floor on the pretty much on the floor Y and so our room was set up for
Four people but we were only two so we had the benefit of stacking two of the futons on top of each other and it was still pretty firm and they did have the traditional anen hot Springs bathing facilities Y and that’s all they had for bathing so
There was a communal bathroom with a toilet and a sink and then for showering you needed to go down to the communal baths so that was really fun this was my first time to use an onson so luckily they had a diagram in the room so we could study up
On proper etiquette for going into the anen and that was really helpful and I was always also grateful that around 4:00 when we were finished with our first hike that I was the only one there so I could stumble around and figure things out before I had to embarrass
Myself in front of other people I did figure out where to put my belongings to remove my clothing to shower before I got into the pool and this was a really beautiful setup they had an indoor pool was quite chilly out by the end of the
Day and it was raining a little bit by then and then they also had a wonderful outdoor area that was natural lava rocks which were very pointy on my bare skin when I tried to sit down the water was so scalding hot I really couldn’t stand
To be in there longer than a few minutes but I really enjoyed the experience uh the other aspect to our Anson Hotel was they had a restaurant for breakfast and dinner but we couldn’t order from a menu it was just a set meal and the times were very exact so it was
Meals were served at 6:00 p.m. and 700 a.m. not on demand so if you wanted your meal you better show up at that time and it was our first meal with all the wonderful plates all the little dishes and so we were quite Charmed by the offering and plenty of food delicious
And they always had at least one kind of oddly American thing or maybe it wasn’t I don’t know I did see a lot of pasta salad and potato salad salad but they always had something that struck me as being Western and then the rest of it was traditional Japanese and then always
White rice so anybody can find anything to eat and then we liked our hotel that had a nice mix of Ages so there was the very young to quite elderly and also a mix of nationalities so quite a few Japanese a few Europeans and then a couple of Americans so the hiking that
We did in this area we did three hikes and there’s a lot more that you can do but for the time we had and the weather it was already getting a little bit rainy so one of them was up at the top of the ropeway was called the sugat Tomi
Loop and it’s the one that pretty much everybody does when they first get there and it is stunningly gorgeous so I highly recommend like everybody else just starting with that loop it’s only about a mile although there are extensions to do a little bit more but
It took us an hour to do this one mile and could easily take longer because everywhere you turn is just this amazing scene when we got off the ropeway we were still a little bit below a rise so we could see the top of the mountain and
It looked very inviting and we could see these little puffs of smoke but we didn’t have a good view of what was happening and then as we got higher you could see that there were multiple ferals where steam was Rising from the earth and there were these gorgeous
Ponds being held by the volcanic rock and so it was just this magical otherworldly scene where I felt like I was on another planet of this landscape spreading out with all these little puffs of smoke coming out you could hear the steam hissing as you got closer to
Them and there was a slight sulfurous smell it wasn’t overpowering but lots of these ponds and then the huge mountain rising in the back background it was just gorgeous it’s a nice loop it’s an easy track and then we hiked up the mountain a bit pretty steep
And Rocky and then the weather started closing in on us we didn’t quite make it all the way to the top but we got a little bit longer hike than just doing the mile around that Loop we came down and it rained all night and we were concerned the weather
Report had been shifting and changing and we knew that it might rain the next day luckily it didn’t look too bad in the morning but it was a little bit threatening so we had noticed a nature trail right outside of our hotel across the street and it I can’t find anything
About it it didn’t seem there’s probably a sign in Japanese but I couldn’t find anything other than just calling it The Nature Trail but it was um a little bit more than three miles and it had boardwalks it was really welldeveloped so it may be used more in the winter for
Cross country Expeditions or snowshoeing but it was really pretty it was down in the lower part which is more like temperate rainforest and less like the barren rock that is featured in the upper reaches of the mountain so it was really Pleasant to walk around Boardwalk
Went over some marshy areas and then by the time we finished that the weather looked improved so we went up the ropeway again and hiked to the nakadate anen and that’s the name of this natural hot springs that I described earlier so that was a six mile hike so we ended up
Hiking a a little bit more than 9 miles that day which was good exercise so to get to the nakadate ansen there’s a couple of different ways when we got up to the top of the ropeway we got on the loop trail and then turned left and it
Traversed across the landscape and it was really beautiful because you’re circling around this mountain so you’re seeing different views as you progress that you couldn’t see before so Ever Changing I kept seeing more valys it kept beckoning me to go further and we did learn that on this Trail you could
Hike to the other onson Village that has a ropeway and it would take all day and you can get luggage transfer so if we had known about that we would have tried to do that my husband and I our style of travel is more to get a rough outline
And then not plan things too much and the downside of this is that you discover things that you would have done that require some Advanced planning so that would be a really nice all day hike and there also is a diset suzan grand traverse that people do over 5 to eight days so
For the through-hikers in your listener group there is an opportunity to do a full week of hiking in this mountain range so there’s some great opportunities for hiking okay so for the rest of this 7-Day itinerary the next two days would involve getting back to Tokyo so what we did was take
The bus back to asah hiawa and then we took the train not back to saporo but all the way back to hakodate which was the end of the line for the shin Consin train so for us it would be the beginning of the line getting back to right
Tokyo and again people could elect to spend another day on the mountain and fly back to Tokyo I also want to mention that if you want to rent a car that does provide more opportunities for traveling to different areas of this National Park and for the other national parks and you
Do need an international driver’s license if you want to rent a car in Japan and one of the things I found was that in the guide books and blog posts and everything around going to the national parks is that everybody recommended that getting a car and that’s easiest way to see things and
Then they wouldn’t give you any information about how to do it without a car so that was one of the reasons I wanted to emphasize how it is possible to do this and get to the mountain so you could say that either it limits where you can go
But I actually prefer to think about it as it simplified our choices because it was overwhelming looking at all the different Villages and just figuring out is there a main place to go or what is the best way to tackle a firsttime visit to this area so for us it ended up
Simplifying things because this was the most straightforward way to get to the mountain and I have driven in Japan uh one thing to remember is that they do drive on the left I have found them in my limited experience to be polite drivers as you would expect we’ll talk
About my Driving Experience coming up on the Tokyo show because I’ve only driven a go-kart through the main streets of Tokyo which is a different experience dressed like Batman of course but that’s just something that people need to be aware of one is it when you’re up in Hokkaido you don’t have to
Dress like Batman and we’ll have a real car but you will have to drive on the left yeah and that can be intimidating for people right I would say one thing though that’s good about Hokkaido is is that it’s not nearly as crowded of course as other areas of Japan so it’s
It’d be a much more comfortable experience so in terms of other places to visit in a Hokkaido I would love to spend a month there and go to all of the national parks you can get up to the very far northern part of the island you
Can get way out to the eastern part where you’re looking at islands that I believe are actually Russian and so there’s a lot more you can do in Hokkaido than just the area that we were able to see got it anything else we want to cover on your itinerary before we get
Get to some of our wrap up questions this probably was mentioned in some of your other podcasts but one of the joys of traveling in Japan is that the food is amazing everywhere and so we found that in Hokkaido as as well as the mainland honu the main island and you
Don’t have to make reservations at fancy restaurants just stop at any little place and the food is going to be amazing excellent as we get to our wrap up questions you’re standing in the prettiest spot you saw in Hokkaido where are you standing and what are you
Looking at I’m standing on that sugami Loop okay scene that just replays in my mind every time I think about Hokkaido and we went up several times on the ropeway we approached it from several angles and every time it took my breath away and even on the turning
Around from that amazing scene was a scene that you just don’t see a lot in Japan which was was a feeling that you were a million miles from anywhere there’s no big towns around there you couldn’t see roads it just felt like you were out in the wilderness and that’s a
Really special experience especially in a very densely populated area like Japan one thing that makes you laugh and say only in Japan I don’t know that pillow bar was pretty crazy pillow bar is pretty cool idea as someone who needs is you know under pillow over pillow between the
Legs you need a combination of styles of pillows so you you just have to make do at most hotels yeah um some of the hotels are really small and so we just have to laugh sometimes they were all like so wonderful the restaurants were amazing
The people were so kind and then we get into the room and we’re not big people but it was one person at a time could get into their suitcase and move around so it made us laugh a few times I’ve definitely been in a hotel room in Tokyo
Where you could be on the bed one one bed in the room it’s up against one wall and you could reach all the other walls from the bed exactly there was one room that we just we called our tent because it was um only slightly uh larger than a tent we
Would be backpacking in it was plenty large enough for me it had a close pressing machine which was one of the only places I’ve seen this which was a vertical machine that you could put your clothes in and press them which I kept seeing that outside of there would be
One communal one outside of the elevator and so I went over one time what is this for it’s like making a a grilled cheese sandwich or something for your pants the the room that I was in you wouldn’t have had room to set up even if
They’d had a ironing board in an iron it just wasn’t the floor space for it so this was genius way to do that if you were you know there with clothes that you needed pressing for your business meeting or something but correct yeah the elevator lobb is the only room big enough
Yeah and if you had to summarize the island of Hokkaido in just three words what three words would you use natural beauty I only need two okay then you’ve got a spare word if you come back on the show you get forward excellent I’m going to remember that you
Can bank that remind me if you come back on the show excellent Our Guest again has been Inga axit from ingos adventures.com and Inga if we want to send people to your best post on Hokkaido I’m gonna say what should we send them to where will it be it will be
In the Travel section on my website I have a section for outdoor art articles and travel and actually there’ll probably be some on both but look on the Travel section and I haven’t started writing those up hopefully I’ll have my first one up by the time this airs and
Then over the next couple of months I’ll be writing up more of my travel adventures in Japan but Ina’s gonna send us the one that she writes on Hokkaido when it is finished and we’ll put it in the show notes so that you can more easily find it great thank you thanks so
Much for coming on amateur traveler and sharing with this your love for Japan and for the island of hoko well thank you so much for having me I hope to be back sometime you know you’ve got that extra question I got to use my extra word you got to use That thanks as always to the patrons of the show who help support amateur traveler financially if you’re interested in learning more about becoming a patron you can go to patreon.com amateur trer some news on the Morocco trip we did not get enough people for the second trip but we had
Some cancellations on the first trip so we’re going to try and combine the two but that probably does mean that the trip is full and so if you want to be on the waiting list you can contact me but other than that we’re probably ready to
Go with the people we have who are going with me to Morocco in April and thanks I’m looking forward to it and with that we’re going to end this episode of amateur traveler if you have any questions send an email to host at amateur traveler.com or better yet leave
A comment on this episode at amateur traveler.com and thanks so much for listening I got to see one more Cathedral I got to sit in one more Cafe I know that I should be heading home but maybe not maybe not today