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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Back to Tokyo

Today, we left Hokkaido for Tokyo... We had an early start as we need to drive for 1 hour 30 min to return the car at New Chitose airport.

Technically this is our breakfast but we eat as if it was lunch as this is the very last moment to savor the Hokkaido seafood.

My Sashimi, tempura and crab miso soup for breakfast

Johannes shredded crab meat set meal, also with tempura and sashimi

Interesting the Chitose airport is like a fish market, all stalls selling fresh Hokkaido seafood from crab to everything you can think of..
fishes like this

or these...

Hokkaido has been an eye opening for us, very un-Japanese and every place that we visited are unique on its own yet all commonly govern by the nature of volcano, mountains, sea. The summer weather is similar to the one in the Netherlands, which is rather pleasant as the sweltering Tokyo temperature was a bit unbearable.

Well, to mark the end of Hokkaido journey, here is a ramen map of Hokkaido that I have taken at a restaurant at the airport.
We only covered a very small part of Hokkaido, the original plan was more aggressive but thankfully we given that up and opt for some relaxation and enjoyment at Toya lake resort.

Now we are back to Tokyo... Noisy, crowded and confined to high rise building, undergrounds and the concrete walls. Despite of all these, Tokyo still has something unique to itself . I love the concept, design and artistic elements that appeal to me in the architecture, product design or expressive in shop window and concept stores...

We did some shopping and this is an interesting store of the day...

This store sells unique design T-shirts, they are so simple but yet eye catching...

Good night!

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