This one-hour cruise on a sight-seeing boat is a “non-event” in our opinion. Labeled as an Icebreaker, I would guess “ice strengthened hull” is more like it since it does not crunch through ice. It takes about 20 minutes to reach the drift ice, a few minutes spent there and then the boat turns back to port. B-o-r-i-n-g…
Every single tourist in Hokkaido loads on the 4-5 departures each day hoping to see marine animals…which are rarely seen this close to shore and pack ice. Forget about it…
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