Hello everyone! This was our first trip as a family with two young babies visiting our favourite country that is JAPAN! Our next stop is Hakodate, first stop of our Hokkaido trip, we decided to stay two nights here after picking up our rental car from New Chitose airport. Please enjoy this as much as we did, Hokkaido truly is a stunning location! This video was shot on 17th of July 2018.
Equipment:
GoPro Hero 6
Zhiyun gimbal
Locations visited:
Ekini Market:
Address: 9-19 Wakamatsucho, Hakodate, Hokkaido 040-0063, Japan
Donburi Yokocho Seafood:
Japan, 〒040-0063 Hokkaido, Hakodate, Wakamatsucho, 9−15 どんぶり横丁内
Kantaro Sushi:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kantaro+Sushi/@41.770788,140.745451,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipNfCB_FaE4DCXXT7_2jZLwcRA6fiBFXbSs-And5!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNfCB_FaE4DCXXT7_2jZLwcRA6fiBFXbSs-And5%3Dw152-h86-k-no!7i3840!8i2160!4m31!1m23!4m22!1m6!1m2!1s0x5f7520459d5c1add:0x1aba607ce5f681f6!2sNew+Chitose+Airport+(CTS)+(CTS),+Bibi,+Chitose,+Hokkaido+066-0012,+Japan!2m2!1d141.6813203!2d42.7875856!1m6!1m2!1s0x5f9fe09a9d962de1:0x8ab2a8ed5f048ff5!2sUsuzan+SA+Northbound!2m2!1d140.908363!2d42.4655581!1m6!1m2!1s0x5f9e5c2dd5bc4d21:0x917d7d2a9678c35b!2sHakodate,+Hokkaido,+Japan!2m2!1d140.7290599!2d41.7686961!3e0!3m6!1s0x5f9ef370b56e434d:0x8339d672bec72518!8m2!3d41.7707948!4d140.7454638!10e5!16s%2Fg%2F1tlbtkgr?entry=ttu
14-4 Ugauracho, Hakodate, Hokkaido 040-0023, Japan
Red brick warehouse:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kanemori+Red+Brick+Warehouse/@41.7688872,140.7225899,15.71z/data=!4m30!1m23!4m22!1m6!1m2!1s0x5f7520459d5c1add:0x1aba607ce5f681f6!2sNew+Chitose+Airport+(CTS)+(CTS),+Bibi,+Chitose,+Hokkaido+066-0012,+Japan!2m2!1d141.6813203!2d42.7875856!1m6!1m2!1s0x5f9fe09a9d962de1:0x8ab2a8ed5f048ff5!2sUsuzan+SA+Northbound!2m2!1d140.908363!2d42.4655581!1m6!1m2!1s0x5f9e5c2dd5bc4d21:0x917d7d2a9678c35b!2sHakodate,+Hokkaido,+Japan!2m2!1d140.7290599!2d41.7686961!3e0!3m5!1s0x5f9ef3a8785f50a3:0xe796ba2772ca1f8!8m2!3d41.7664927!4d140.7163777!16s%2Fg%2F1219h35q?entry=ttu
Music:
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You Ramen the food is unbeatable in terms of taste and quality for the price we paid here you can also grab some local Specialties as a souvenir so we had the uh we had the these are ramen salt Ramen and these are all sit that’s the
Show show you Ramen pretty good for a pit stop just rewinding back to the start some after landed at newos airport we were picked up in a shuttle bus along with our luggage to a massive car rental we originally booked our car rental in Australia once we arrived at
The car rental in USA towards the airport we needed to present our credit card that was used for the booking international driver’s license and passport say hello B say hello a word of advice here is to get the ETC card it’s a Tollway card and the amazing thing about it is you can
Use that card on all the tollways in Hokkaido for one fixed daily price I can’t remember the actual price but it is worth it if you’re planning to travel a lot of the islands via tollways it’s so much cheaper and it saved us a lot of money our first stop in Hokkaido is
Hakodate the main goal here is to experience all the amazing Seafood that’s on offer we were also surprised by the desserts that’s on offer at the markets so please enjoy our journey so yeah as you can see buses stop here you can do a pit stop nearly as usual needs a bit of
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Soy Source onto the squid it’s an live squid and it changes color when I say change color it looked like there was a mini light show in front of me unfortunately a GoPro didn’t work at the time but it was a spectacle for me to look at at
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But believe me there is none of that it is organically sweet and very fruitful on the pallette it’s it’s something you cannot describe in words it’s just super delicious and also fulfilling at the same time when it comes to a fruit I I simply could not believe how tasty a fruit can
Be okay that’s a wrap for the melon number one each time we come to Japan we always get grapes from Japan because we found that in Australia The Grapes just purely have a sweet taste and not much of a grape flavor but here in Japan the grape flavor is very
Strong what we also noticed is in Japan The Grapes without the seeds tend to lose a bit of the grape flavor I’m not sure if that’s by Design but I actually prefer the grapes with the seeds in them because it just gives you the maximum grape flavor but I
Understand taking out the grapes means you have a better experience overall because you don’t get to bite into a seed and when you do bite into a seed it leaves a bitter aftertaste from the seed so just something to watch out for yep s you like that’s
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Boxes there’s also a lot of uh souvenir shops for food um anything from dry food to Frozen squid frozen crab ice cream the lot it’s um practically a tourist destination um not so much of a thing for me cuz we didn’t end up buying a lot of things here it’s
Definitely a great place to chill out uh as part of your Itinerary [Applause] He [Applause] Oh What’s that we better look after ourselves [Applause] Is there any any hot food that you have fried hot Food [Applause] Now now you now you With all the shopping and walking we were hungry and we didn’t actually found this restaurant we drove past it as we were going to the hakodate morning Market um and we decided to give it a shot now we didn’t go on Google to look at the
Reviews so it was really a Hail Mary for us and surprisingly this restaurant actually provides over 100 Sushi items uh on the conveyor belt you can definitely order them via the uh it’s a sheet of paper that you can put the number of items you want you
Can also call out to the Chef Point to the item you want on the menu uh yeah there’s no iPads it’s just really human interaction all the way uh the prices were very decent there’s about five or six different price categories and there’s also a set men use which we’ve ordered
So in the end we ended up having roughly 20 plates of sushi and two set menus one to impura sets and the other being udon set um and we cannot Rave enough about this place because the quality of the sushi on each plate were as good as the
One we get back in Melbourne at mini Mishima which is the top finding destination for uh Sushi and you can get it here off the compant Bel it’s it’s just simply mindblowing how fresh the seafood they have here in a restaurant uh the kids also
Enjoyed the food that we gave them um we definitely would come back next time we come to Haka again it is pure joy and and the price is is very reasonable and also they took credit card much it’s it’s definitely a place you will want to visit again and Again it’s only 2 Well imagine these guys are have I have no idea what that Is Did It pry This last location we wanted to come here uh originally but it was closed on the Monday and it is one of those sushi restaurants where the Chef makes the sushi in front of you it’s a c SE and we saw so many rave reviews about it online but yeah unfortunately we have to
Come back next Time are closed what does that looks like it’s Clos today oh well