Sapporo, Day 378 & 379

After completing the documentary filming I traveled to Sapporo, the largest city on Hokkaido.


A very neat bed in my hostel,

Wandering around Sapporo,

 

A market,

From Sapporo I took a bus to an onsen outside of the city,

The view from the onsen,

Views from the Sapporo TV Tower,

Mt. Kuro-dake, Day 377

From Asahikawa we would go up Mt. Kuro-dake, in the Daisetsuzan National Park.

A individual serving of soy sauce, I have a toothpick included for scale,

My film crew,

We took a cable car half way up Mt. Kuro-dake and then hiked up to the summit,

Ice crystals on the trail,

Asahikawa, Day 376

While at my hostel in Tokyo a film crew was going around interviewing people in the lobby. When they asked me what I was going on doing in Japan, I told them about my plan to travel north and see the leaves changing color in Hokkaido. This would turn out to be exactly what they wanted to include in a documentary about tourism in Japan. So I would go to northern Japan with a film crew.

Most of this day would be spent traveling north on 3 trains and then by car. My first shinkansen or bullet train,  

Views from the train,

 

The train,

Sunset,

 
My hotel room,

Mt. Fuji, Day 373

From Tokyo I took a day trip to go to Mt. Fuji. It was too late in the season to hike to the peak and even though it was a lovely day large parts of the mountain were lost in the clouds. I still enjoyed the views of the country from the areas I managed to reach.

Mt. Fuji,

Kawaguchi-ko, a town at the base of Mt. Fuji,