After regrouping in our room after our visit to Noboribetsu, we set back out towards the train station at about 5:00pm to take the metro to Sapporo station then the rapid airport train to Otaru. Otaru is an old shipping port city on the water with iconic warehouses looking out over the canal. We took the rapid train which took 33 minutes. From the train you could see the sea and the rocky winter waves. We arrived at Otaru station […]

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