The trip to Sapporo involved a Shinkansen to Shin-Hakodate station on Hokkaido (the north island), including going through an undersea tunnel for 15 minutes, a trip which is maybe 80% of the distance and takes around 4 hours. You then need to transfer to some sort of dark ages railway that takes 3.5 hours to cover the remaining distance.
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| Back to the land of the ice and snow. |
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| Shin-Hakodate station. Ain't nothing leaving from track 4. |
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| The train went past the beach at one point. |
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| Sapporo station building. |
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| The long dark icy trek to my hotel. |
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| The children at the school this statue was out the front of presumably took pity on it in the cold. |
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| The view from my hotel doorstep of allegedly the best Ramen place in Sapporo. |
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| Navigating the icy streets without slipping is an acquired skill. Interestingly some types of brickwork melt the snow faster than others. |
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| No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around the homeless simply freeze to death. |
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| Snowing! |
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| The snow can be quite heavy at times, this is from standing outside for less than 30 seconds. |
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| This poor guy on the left has the task of keeping this path outside a shopping center clear. |
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