Form Wednesday evening until Sunday morning I was on a trip to Hokkaido (the northernmost of Japan’s four main islands) with the main goal of visiting the Snow Festival (雪祭り/”yuki matsuri”) in Sapporo. Obviously Sapporo is a few hundred kilometers north of Sendai, so the first question is how to get there. We decided toContinue reading “Boat trip! – Seeing Snow, part 1”