EY452's Blog: August 2008

2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~Souvenirs 战利品~~杂货

By Happy452 - Thursday, August 21, 2008

Necklace with glass pendant bought at Meijikan, Motomachi -- ¥1,680

Fridge magnet with clip. A lot of handycrafts are made in owl, wolf or bear form in Hokkaido. This one sold at Hell Valey gifts shop.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido ~ More Skincare 战利品~~美容护肤品2

By Happy452 - Thursday, August 21, 2008

Another best place to buy KOSE products is the Duty Free shop. I got these at Narita Airport, about 31%-38% cheaper in Malaysia.

1. Massage Mask (¥3,500)

2. Clear Lotion (¥1,700)

3. White Powder Wash (¥2,100)

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

If you ever have spare time, try to persuade your tour guide to bring you to ¥100 shop. Although most of the items are made in China, the quality is definitely better. Worth buying...just see what we bought...each item is sell at ¥105 (inclusive of 5% tax) which is about RM3 only

1. Home sandal. Soft and washable.

2. LCD monitor and keyboard dust cover.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~Food 战利品~~土产

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Food Section

When you go overseas, you can't resist hoarding loads of goodies back especially snacks and local produce. We bought these from the omiyage shop at Tanukikoji shopping arcade, Sapporo.

1. Tokibi Corn Chocolate http://www.hori-group.jp/hori/shop/list/1_6/

Photo extracted from official site.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~Skincare 战利品~~美容护肤品

By Happy452 - Friday, August 15, 2008

This is what we bought on the first day from the drugstores at Tanukikoji shopping arcade. This is only the first day! We have done our homework so we got some ideas what to buy. Personally, I felt you really need to do the homework unless you could read Japanese. Even though you could read, you might not have the time to study each item. So basically I just grabbed what looks familiar into my basket especially those recommended in the Taiwanese popular 女人我最大 TV show.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~DAY7 Back to Malaysia

By Happy452 - Thursday, August 14, 2008

Our flight back is 1330 and we need to reach the airport 2 and half hour before for check in. The hotel is not far from the airport. So free and leisure in the morning until transfer to Narita airport. No group check-in, so everyone had to queue up. I think most of our tour members have exceeded the weight limit. Our luggage only weight 38kg

Not bad.

After immigration checkpoint, you could shop at the duty free shop and lots of omiyage shops too. If you want to buy ROYCE chocolate, you need to take the train first. In the terminal, they still have mini stalls selling omiyage but not many.

We reached KLIA 1940 and ended our Hokkaido tour

23 July 2008

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~DAY6 HAKODATE 函馆朝市-->金森倉庫-->100yen shop

By Happy452 - Thursday, August 14, 2008

Today we will visit the famous Hakodate Morning Market 函馆朝市. We will be having our lunch and dinner early today as we need to catch a flight back to Narita at 1855 hours.

M-size is ok with us as we use it for porridge and soup only.

A must buy in Hokkaido is the dry scallop. It's better quality and cheaper as they have pretty of supply here. According to Low-san that Japanese also sell dry China scallop in the market to cater for specific group of consumers.

He promised to bring us to this one particular stall in the market which will only sell dry Japanese scallop. Well, we don’t know how true the truth is.

). 500g of M-size cost ¥6,500 (RM200) while L-size is ¥7,500 (RM230). We bought 1kg of the M-size.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~DAY5 Natural Formation of Noboribetsu 登别市

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Today breakfast is a bit special. Breakfast in set at the Yumoto Noboribetsu Hotel where we had our dinner last night. Of course no yukata this morning but still need to sit on the tatami floor.

Hell Valley (JIGOKUDANI) 地獄谷 is our first sightseeing spot today. Very near to the hot spring town. Cloud of steams and volcanic gas coming out from the surface and filled with strong smell of sulphur. This place was the remnant of an active volcano erupted 10,000 years ago. We followed the wooden path to the end to witness the bubbling hot water every 5 minutes. Those with breathing problem better stay off the area. They have a gifts shop at the entrance. So you could wait there if you don’t want to go in.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~DAY4 Rainbow of Flowers 富良野

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Today is to visit the lavender farm, our main title of this trip. From the hotel it took about 1 and half hour to reach Furano 富良野~~Farm Tomita. Coincidently the Japanese are having some kind of celebration event and the traffic is real slow. Finally most of the members gave up sitting inside the bus and took a stroll to the Farm instead. Just a short distance of about 10-15 minutes walk to reach the entrance but the place is packed with tourists already.

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Hokkaido~DAY3 Romantic Town of Otaru 小樽市

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Morning call at 0630 which is 0530 Malaysia time!

…Do we have to wake up so early, aren’t we on holiday….how come much early than working day! Sob…sob..we have our buffet breakfast at the hotel. Too early for my stomach to have breakfast la. In Japan, you take a tray and put empty plate(s) or bowl(s) with cutleries first, then proceed to the food section. Their normal breakfast is porridge or rice. Of course they have western food to cater for the tourists too. Not many choices though.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido ~ DAY2 The Start of My Footprint

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Arrival hall of Narita Airport

Hurray, we finally reached Narita airport 成田国际机场 on time. There was a minor hiccup at the immigration check point as our pretty tour leader led us to the wrong queue which was for Japanese and Japan PR only.

No wonder not even a single foreigner at the queue except us. Well, she apologized later and apparently this is her first time at Narita airport

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido ~ DAY1 Here we come!! 北海道，我們來了！

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Finally the day had arrived. Well, I’m still working in the morning and only take the afternoon off. The flight is 2330 hours and the assemble time is 2130 hours at KLIA. We reached KLIA about 45 minutes earlier from the assemble time and yet the tour leader is already there… waiting.

wah la, we thought we are the first…..how early did she arrive there?

The tour leader is a pretty young lady with not much tour experience to Hokkaido. This is her 3rd time to Hokkaido.

It takes about 7 hours to reach Narita airport, Japan. So we should be there about 0745 tomorrow morning.

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido ~ Revised Itinerary 北海道~旅程

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

July is a peak season in Hokkaido and hard to get seat for domestic flight. According to our tour guide, they couldn’t secure seats to Hakodate

and have to reschedule the itinerary. We will touch down in Chitose instead. This means our travel plan will be from west to east against the original plan from east to west.

DAY 1
KLIA --> Narita

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido ~ Final Confirmation 北海道前的準備

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

While counting down, the tour leader called and sending out the final confirmation list and some important information.

Yahoo weather forecast had reported raining for the whole time we will be in Hokkaido. What!

Can I change to another date… So don’t forget the umbrella.

(If you forget to bring, don't worry. The Japan tour bus is good, they always have spare umbrellas in the bus for the tourists)

You wouldn’t believe it my sis like their umbrella and brought it back all the way to Malaysia!

You won't want to miss the shopping during vacation. Please bring sufficient Yen as not all places accept credit cards in Hokkaido.

Bring 3G phone only.

The temperature is around 22℃ to 28℃. Lower temperature during night time. Light jacket is advisable as certain tour spot is cold as they are located on higher ground.

Lastly, don’t forget the PASSPORT.

Oh almost forgot to mention we have 34 pax in our group. The biggest tour group I ever participated before

出發的五天前，團的領隊來電告知一些旅遊資訊和出發前的準備：

雅虎天文頇告行程的那幾天都會下雨…唉‥真是天公不作美啊，得帶雨傘。（不過日本旅巴還蠻貼心，都備有多把傘以防万一。）
〔值的一提日本的傘大多是透明的，我妹還特地大老遠帶回來大馬呢〕

多帶現金因为在日本不是所有的地方都受卡付費。

只有3G手提電話可用。

天氣介于22-28度C ，晚上較冷、有些景點位于高處如函館賞夜景時風會较大。所以記得帶件薄外套。

最後嘛就是記得帶護造…忘了話就自己保重啰！

对了…這个團共三十四人，還真多人呢！

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2008 夏之旅~北海道

Hokkaido~Summer Holiday 2008 夏之旅~北海道

By Happy452 - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

If you are going to Japan, Hokkaido 北海道 is one of the popular place to go. Hokkaido is an island located north end of Japan. I and my sister finally decided to go to Japan this mid July 2008 and Hokkaido is our first place to set our foot in Japan. It will be summer in Hokkaido which is her popular floral season especially height of the lavender blooming period during end of July.

Without wasting too much time on choosing which traveling agencies, we had picked AppleHoliday which suppose to be good in organising Japan tour. The all-in tour fare came up to about RM7k each person for 8D6N. Really expensive. The tour will be flying with MAS and transit to domestic flight in Narita to Hokkaido. There is no direct flight to Hokkaido from Malaysia. If you choose to take JAL airline, it will costs you extra RM200-RM300 each person and yet you still need to have transit flight.

Malaysia Hormony offered a lower price but the tour will stop and stay a night at Shanghai before departing to Hokkaido. If I could recall correctly, the all-in price around RM6k per pax.

聽到北海道就很興奮

，只因她是個值得去旅遊的好去處。尢其是夏冬季，夏季賞花冬季賞雪两個截然不同的情景。既然選了夏季，那就不能錯過當地聞名的薰衣草盛開的旺季囉 ~~ 那就是七月中至尾了。

以前就聽聞蘋果旅行社是個去日本不錯的選擇，所以也沒做太多的比較。蘋果個人旅費就要七千馬幣，還蠻高的價位。馬航沒有機直飛北海道哦，蘋果直飛日本再轉機飛往北海道。北海道可是位于日本最北部的島嶼。或者多加兩三百馬幣就可乘搭日航了。不過還是需轉機哦。

Malaysia Harmony 就便宜的多，不過不直飛日本反而飛往上海住一晚,隔天再乘機飛北海道。個人旅費大概只需六千馬幣左右。

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