We started our journey to Sapporo from Shin Hakodate, where we caught the JR Hokuto train to Sapporo. We got on a non-reserve car (a weird lady tried to push past us to get on the train.. She had a concealed dog and behaved really oddly the whole way to Sapporo) where we easily found seats near the front of the train. The train ride took 213 minutes, pretty long for a fast train in Japan, as it was a […]

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