Lest the moss begin to grow around my feet, away I go on another grand adventure. As mentioned in the last post, I'll be heading off to Tokyo and Hokkaido with two friends, a trip I've been looking forward to more or less since arriving in Japan. The way we're doing it means that we will be riding trains for more time than we are actually out and around sightseeing, but it should be so much fun that it doesn't matter. The basic itinerary is this:
Thursday 25: Go to Tokyo on bullet train, spend the day there partying.
Friday 26: Spend day in Tokyo.
Saturday 27: Get up at some ungodly hour and spend the whole day on the train. Spend the night in Aomori, a town on the northern coast of Honshu.
Sunday 28: Take the ferry from Honshu to Hokkaido, spend a while in a city called Hakodate, then leave to spend the night in Sapporo.
Monday 29: Much craziness in Sapporo. Rumor has it that touring the Sapporo beer factory allows one to drink until satiated for free. For the sake of mankind, this mystery must be investigated.
Tuesday 30: Get up crazy early and take the train all day to Wakkanai, the northernmost city on Hokkaido. Spend the night there.
Wednesday 31: Spend a while in Wakkanai, then get on the train and ride it until six a.m. the next day.
Thursday 1: Continue on the train without break until arriving in the Tokyo area sometime lateish at night.
Friday 2: Go all the way back to Hiroshima on the train, arrive late in the evening. Be extremely exhausted. Sleep until Judgement Day, or maybe a little later.
Rumor also has it that in Tokyo, there is an entire used bookstore district just teeming with priceless little papery nuggets just waiting to be dug out of their hiding places by a man with the courage to plumb the district's cavernous depths and a plucky talking animal sidekick to make sarcastic wisecracks before finally risking life and limb to show that true friendship is all that matters. I believe I fit these requirements, and expect to come back weighted with treasures, and this time not like the kind that your dog leaves for you on your brand new white carpet.
- Gyaa! I'm give up
Naka-ku, Hiroshima
730-0803
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