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Again, it was kind of a rainy and dark day. But Hokkaido is still beautiful. |
| Hokkaido Farm |
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Our car worked hard to go over the Karikachi pass. This is the top of the
pass. John finally found an Ainu Friend to be in the picture with him.
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| John with Ainu Friend |
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At last we found a bear! We wished it were alive.
Hand-carved bear is a typical Hokkaido souvenir. Of course souvenir bears
are much smaller than this.
We saw canned bear meat, walrus meat, and deer meat for sale. John said
"Walrus meat taste like possum." |
| Hiromi being eaten alive! |
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Mountain Color had already started in Hokkaido. We enjoyed many beautiful
colors, but it's hard to express by the pictures. |
| Autumn Red tree |
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We went through Furano. I decided the route to go through Takikawa to Hamamasu
where we can see the beautiful coast line.
This castle is fake. Hokkaido history is too new to have this kind of castle.
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| A castle in Akabira |
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We passed Takikawa and bounded to Hamamasu. Takikawa is the place where
we got the bad report about our car. It's still running as we believed.
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| Mountain Road to Hamamasu |
It was getting dark, and everybody was in a hurry to go back home. This
coast line is one lane and does not allow to pass the car in front. We
could not enjoy the view because cars kept coming behind and bother us
with extremely high speed. I don't remember how many times I stopped and
let the cars behind pass us.
We went back to Yoko's house and enjoyed the last Hokkaido night. |
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| Going back to Sapporo from North |
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