{"id":11633,"date":"2006-02-03T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=11633"},"modified":"2022-05-20T16:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:36:53","slug":"japan-trip-2006-worked-a-show-in-tokyo-and-then-a-short-break-in-asahikawa-sapporo-hokkaido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/03\/japan-trip-2006-worked-a-show-in-tokyo-and-then-a-short-break-in-asahikawa-sapporo-hokkaido\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Trip 2006. Tokyo and Asahikawa (Hokkaido)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Page 2006 in Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flew from Tokyo into Asahikawa, Hokkaido with Philip for a snow-filled winter vacation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The winter journey through Japan begins…<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Freezing cold Hokkaido<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ice sculpture outside the airport. -9 degrees Celsius.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our rental car<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My brother Philip and me, freezing out butts off.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Drove through the blizzard to our first stop in Abashiri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My friend Hiro was driving while my brother and I passed out in the car, oblivious to the blizzard conditions…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thanks Hiro for driving in such dangerous conditions, and got us there in one piece!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dinner! Hokkaido is famous for crabs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We each get one of these… yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hiro is a bit buzzed… \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next morning, we got on an icebreaker ship and drove through the Abashiri Hyoru (crushed ice) cruise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from my ryokan (hotel) room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It snowed overnight, covering all the trees with a thin layer of snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We bought tickets for the “Drift Ice” cruise (called Ryuhyo). My brother and I imagined it to be a ice-crushing ship like those in Alaska…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just in time for our ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our cruise ship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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chunks of ice near the dock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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looks impressive so far… COLD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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after a few minutes of this, and hearing no ice-crushing sound from the front of the boat, I was told that the ice is really slush, and there will be NO ice-crushing at all \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My good friend (and family tour guide for Japan) Hiro Kanasaki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was quite windy that day… freezing wind-chill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The more “packed” area, but still slush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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looking at the “trail” behind the ship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I passed out \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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Page 2006 in Tokyo, Japan Flew from Tokyo into Asahikawa, Hokkaido with Philip for a snow-filled winter vacation: Drove through the blizzard to our first stop in Abashiri Next morning, we got on an icebreaker ship and drove through the Abashiri Hyoru (crushed ice) cruise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSCN4394.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions\/11719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}