Japan – MC Overland

Naha, Okinawa, Japan

Two weeks after our Hokkaido trip, we went to Okinawa for a weekend. This trip occurred because I found a cheap flight to Vancouver on Cathay but it had to first originate from a city in Japan via Hong Kong then to Vancouver. I had never been to Okinawa so off we went after buying a […]

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Hokkaido road trip – Day 5&6: Noboribetsu and Otaru

We drove to Noboribetsu on the most boring stretch of highway for 4 hours. It would have taken 6-7 hours if we had followed the ridiculously slow speed limit of Japan highways of 70km/h. Almost no one follows this rule except the little 600cc bread vans. Amazingly there are no police in Hokkaido checking for […]

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Hokkaido Roadtrip- Day 4: Akan National Park

Drove to Akan National Park and saw their 3 famous lakes. Lake 1: Mashu- Ko is allegedly the most beautiful lake in Japan. In the middle of the lake is a little island. Apparently the island is a grandma who turned into stone waiting for the grandson who never returned. Also the lake is covered […]

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Hokkaido Roadtrip- Day 3: Shiretoko National Park

Drove to Shiretoko Park. Took a walk around the Five Lakes which was ranked very high on many tourist websites, but really you can only just one because you have to pay and take a tour to access the rest for fear that tourists will get eaten by bears or something. Not worth it, my […]

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Hokkaido Roadtrip Day 2: Daisetsuzan National Park

From Furano we drove to Sounkyo Onsen in Daisetsuzan National Park. We climbed up to the peak of Kuro-dake which turned out to to mostly still covered in snow so the hiking was fairly wet and tiring. Incredible view though. My parents were going to hike up with us, but one […]

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Hokkaido Roadtrip – Day 1: Furano and Biel

After 1.5 long years, M was finally coming back to HK. This end of 1.5 years coincided with my mothers 60th birthday. Since she wanted to go to Hokkaido, and M was departing Japan, we went on a little road trip around Hokkaido. Hokkaido is quite large, and covers around 20% of the land of […]

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Nikko, Japan

We were planning to go climb Mt.Fuji in late June, but the 130km/h wind and thunderstorm put a stop to that. So we decided to head to Nikko National Park instead on a day trip which turned out to be a dumb idea. Our itinerary in Nikko: 1.Board train at 7:45 arriving at Nikko Station at […]