Japan Travel Guide: Visiting Sapporo

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Sapporo is the capital of the northern island of Japan, Hokkaido. There are nearly 2 million inhabitants and is the center of the island protractors (from here you can go to any other people of Hokkaid? and, in fact, go through it if you want to view any part of the island).

Sapporo’s name comes from the Ainu to the area, Sari-poru-betsu or “river moves along a plain full of reeds.”

The city boasts of being the birthplace of the famous Sapporo beer and for being the home of the Winter Olympics in 1972, and in fact the southern mountains are perfect for winter sports. Its design is mathematical, grid streets that provide guidance.

Since 1891 the city was made in Sapporo beer, so you should not miss the charming Sapporo Brewery, which dates from the late nineteenth century. It has a great botanical garden the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

Travelling to Hokkaido Island

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Travelling to Hokkaido Island

Mapachi Street houses most fashionable shops, restaurants and shopping stores. There are in between, art galleries, museums, amusement parks and in the heart of the University of Hokkaido, the Japanese garden with over 4,000 plant species spread over an area of more than 14 hectares. The Ainu Museum of tickets may know the traditions and culture of the Ainu.

Among the famous restaurant of the place, their noodles are the Susukino (Japanese pampas grass) is always full of tourists and visitors, very good food.

A singularity of Hokkaido, is as already mentioned earlier, his exuberant nature, which is not in the big cities of Japan, forget that one thing that attracts attention and is justified by the high prices in Japan, is that people large cities, the grocery shopping done considering the portion “fair” deal for your menu that day, exact purchase a lemon, a tomato, an egg, no excesses, as Latinos become accustomed, that despite high inflation we are experiencing, we are doing the weekly shopping in abundance, in addition for us is allowed to have the number of children they give us the win, which is also restricted in Japan due to the overpopulation of cities, leading to a progressive aging of its inhabitants, in addition, women have become increasingly sophisticated and want to develop their career rather than primarily to family.

The clubs are separate point, the Japanese have entertainment centers very similar to those Western countries, were it not for the freedoms have been so suspended until a few years ago there would be far safer than they are in front reels the other hemisphere.

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