Japan Trip

I’m going on a trip to Japan with my family for 40 days and considering this will be the last time I get to take a vacation this long I wanted to document this whole trip.

The rough itinerary for this trip:

2026-06-22 JST

It’s been a pretty uneventful day. We hopped on NH7 and we departed from SFO at 12:15 June 21 PDT. We’re set to arrive at Narita (NRT) at 22:43 PDT (14:44 June 22 JST). I’m currently writing this at 21:40 PDT and I’ve just finished eating dinner. The airplane meals were alright. I watched The Wolf of Wall Street using the in-flight entertainment. Other than that, it’s been boring. After landing at Narita, we’re gonna have to go through customs and then transfer to NH2155 to get to Sapporo. We’ll land at CTS at 19:30 JST and we’re gonna take a train from the airport to our hotel, which will be about another hour.

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2026-06-23

We grabbed breakfast from FamilyMart. I ate a fami-chiki and egg salad sandwich. After that we went to Hohei Kan (didn’t go inside), Odori Park, Sapporo Clock Tower and Hokkaido Aka Renga (Red Brick Building). There was a guide at the clock tower who spoke a bit of English and he explained the clock tower’s history. We ate lunch at the Hokkaido University Museum Cafe. I had an omurice. After looking around the museum, we went to the School of Engineering and Poplar Avenue. We then went to PoleTown and Tanukikoji Shopping Street. After shopping we went back to the hotel. We ate dinner at MiSHER’S (ミッシャーズ), which was close to the hotel and I had some tacos. Now I’m back in the hotel and going to sleep early because we have to wake up early tomorrow to join a tour.

2026-06-24

I was forced to wake up at 6:00 today. We went to FamilyMart before realizing it opened at 7:00 so we had to go back and wait. I got another egg salad sandwich for breakfast. We were supposed to leave the hotel at 7:20 but ended up leaving at 7:38 for some reason. Then we missed the train to Sapporo because I didn’t want to jaywalk this time and that cost like 5 minutes (my mom ended up malding about this the whole way there). We were supposed to get on the tour bus at Sapporo Station at 8:00 and we arrived at the station at 7:50. Then we took the wrong exit and we ended up getting there at 8:05 after sprinting from the subway station to the north exit of the JR station. I’m on the bus now and we’re on the highway. The tour guide (James) said it would take 2 hours to get to Furano and that there would be a bathroom break halfway through.

First we went to the Panoramic Flower Gardens Shikisai-no-oka (43.528923, 142.464754). I ate a potato croquette, melon ice cream, white corn, and a venison sausage. We rented a golf cart and drove around the flower garden. The weather was pretty good today, unlike yesterday. My shoes and pants were basically drenched yesterday. We then went to Shirogane Blue Pond (43.492701,142.613019). The pond was a turqoise color today. We then got more ice cream (it was blue this time) and I drank some milk. Then we went to Shirahige Waterfall (43.474685,142.638812). After looking at the waterfall we went to Herb Garden Furano (43.476636,142.456372) to eat lunch and buy some herb souvenirs. I had a chicken tempura don. Then we went to Farm Tomita (43.418206,142.428192) and looked at their lavender fields. That was our final stop before returning to Sapporo. Another two hours later we hopped off the bus at Odori and ate at Soup Curry Lavi (8th floor of Le Trois). Finally, we went back to the hotel. We have another tour tomorrow so I have to wake up early again.

2026-06-25

Today I woke up at 6:00 again and this time we were going to get picked up at Odori Station. We arrived there at 7:15 and got breakfast at Doutor. I had a beef sandwich. Then we boarded the tour bus and left Sapporo at 8:00. We arrived at Cape Kamui at 10:00. We hiked up to the lighthouse and back, which took an hour total. There were sections of the trail that were narrow, steep, and crowded, and it was hot outside, but the view was good. Then we went to Otaru Canal and arrived at 13:00. We were originally planning to get on a boat, so we got lunch at FamilyMart since we wouldn’t have enough time to go to a restaurant, but then we got told that the boat ride was cancelled due to high waves, so we went shopping instead. I got a purple potato churro at OTARUchurros. I bought a glass pen at Kitaichi Venezia Museum. We ate parfaits at LeTAO. We saw the Otaru Steam Clock. We went shopping at the Otaru Music Box Museum. It was a huge store with three floors filled with all sorts of music boxes. I bought a music box that plays “Idol” by YOASOBI. We ran back to the bus because we spent too long shopping and made it back in time for our 15:00 departure. Our final stop was Shiroi Koibito Park. It was a European-themed chocolate factory and they had a performance at 16:00 where a bunch of animatronics were singing. Finally, at 16:10, we departed for Sapporo and arrived around 17:00. I browsed animate on the way back to the hotel. After grabbing water from FamilyMart and dumping all our shopping bags at the hotel, we went to a soba restaurant about one minute away and had dinner. I had a tempura zaru soba. We don’t have any tours planned tomorrow so I won’t have to wake up early.