Our 8-day Hokkaido Trip (Spring in the North)
(15-22 May 2007 - Free-wheeling Tour)
Hokkaido is one of the four largest islands, the northern-most and major farmland in Japan. Hokkaido is famous for its beef, seafood, cheese and other milk products. Its development and urbanization into modernity has been vast and fast since the completion of the Tsugaru Kaikyu Tunnel, which connects Hokkaido to the main island, Honsu, where seats the Capital of Japan. With the fast and efficient rail and road systems, the journey between Sapporo and Tokyo can be barely under four hours by bullet trains. The last time I walked on the land of Hokkaido was a quarter of a century ago. After this long lapse, it is time now to go back there again, to take a look around and pick up my sweet memories left behi ...