Posts Tagged ‘Hokkaido’
Dear readers,
I will leave Japan today and head back to Vancouver, Canada. I stayed in Japan for 9 nights and spend 5 days for my trip. It was crazy busy trip. I tried to take a train as many as I could.
I got these following trains:
Sanyo/Kyushu Shinkansen Hikari, Sakura and Tsubame (Shin Osaka to Hakata, …
Cassiopeia is operated between Ueno and Sapporo. This train is like Japanese version Oriental Express and is the most luxurious in three luxurious overnight trains (other two are Twilight Express and Hokutosei) in Japan.
If you want to take this train by Japan Rail Pass, you need to pay some extra charges. You have to pay …
Hokutosei is operated between Ueno and Sapporo. This train is like Japanese version Oriental Express and is operated on the same route as the most luxurious overnight train, Cassiopeia.
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This overnight express train is operated between Aomori and Sapporo. If you want to save your time and you don’t want to spend your money for Hotel in Sapporo, this overnight train is the best choice. Especially when you want to transfer to Tokyo from Sapporo as early as possible, this train is connected with …
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Hakucho/Super Hakucho is operated between Shin-Aomori (新青森) and Hakodate (函館). These trains go through the longest tunnel in Japan, “Seikan Tunnel” and connect the main island in Japan, “Honshu” (本州) and Hokkaido (北海道). All these trains are scheduled in the right connection time with Tohoku Shinkansen at Shin-
Aomori station and Limited Express “Hokuto” and …
Sapporo is the biggest city in Hokkaido and is very well know city where hold one of the biggest winter festival in the world.
We can get Sapporo in same day from Tokyo and Osaka by Shinkansen and Limited express trains. And also we can take a night train too. Let’s see the sample itinerary.
*You can …
Cape Erimo (=Erimo Misaki=襟裳岬) is located at south end of Hokkaido. There is more than 60m height cliff around the cape and 7km long shore reef to offshore. It is facing the open water of Pacific Ocean. A lot of harbor seals can be seen there.
You can access Cape Erimo by JR local line and …
