I thought it might be nice to include a bulleted list of destinations and resources so that if you’re planning your own trip, you can just grab information from here without having to dig through all my journals. Of course, I still recommend looking through the rest of the blog posts to see detailed advice and thoughts plus pictures! Trip planning was heavily facilitated and tracked using an app called WanderLog.

Today we tried out the hotel breakfast – it was pretty much indistinguishable from the breakfast in our hotel from Sapporo – in other words it was fine. The weirdest part was that the restaurant is in the basement, is themed visually as an Italian restaurant but is playing 50’s era American music and serving Japanese breakfast. We had to get an early start to head out to Nara which is about an hour on public transit between the bus and the train.