{"id":9190,"date":"2019-09-14T01:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2022-05-24T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:25:27","slug":"japan-day-11-sapporo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=9190","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 11: Sapporo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected, I did not feel 100% this morning. After rooting around my suitcase I could only fine one clean shirt so decided it was time to do laundry.<\/p>\n

Remember all the bad things I was saying about this faux fancy hotel? They have the all-in-one washer\/dryers that never wash nor dry properly. Note how the laundry room also has a dehumidifier in it to boost the effectiveness of the dryer? I decided to just go to a coin laundry.<\/p>\n

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It was a bit of a walk to the first decent coin laundry according to teh Googs but the front desk told me about a much closer capsule hotel that lets anyone use the washing machines. Not only do capsule hotels cater to the younger budget-minded travelers, but they also have the down-and-out who can’t afford real apartments. So I spent a couple of hours in the corner of the capsule hotel guarding my clothes while they washed and dried. Not that anyone would want them but better safe than sorry.<\/p>\n

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I figured this would be my “down day” and I needed to get my train tickets for this half of my trip. I found lunch at Mos Burger and got the tickets (plus the ticket to the airport for my side-trip to Wakkanai).<\/p>\n

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I figured this might be a good day to wander around the downtown area and maybe Hokkaido University. I made it to the Hokkaido University campus and had to use the bathroom. I wandered into the first inviting building and it turned out to be the school museum. I found out that they do a lot here and even have a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (organoborate chemistry).<\/p>\n

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I even had a soft ice cream on the way out.<\/p>\n

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On the way back to the hotel I checked out the three buildings I was told were “must see.” The former municipal building was having a pet\/human fair and I didn’t really check that out.<\/p>\n

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The clock tower, while historic, wasn’t much to look at.<\/p>\n

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And of course I was at the tower yesterday for the beer garden (but not today).<\/p>\n

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I even found the Benson bubbler donated by Portand to Sapporo (out of service right now).<\/p>\n

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OK, now it’s time to find dinner. I think I’m going to look for this restaurant my sister sent me on Instagram that has omurice. Will update later. (Well, I figure both of you who might see this are probably asleep right now anyway.)<\/p>\n

Update:
\nThat was disappointing. I took a half-hour walk down dark streets to the Sapporo Factory, only to find it a mishmash of buildings that were hard to navigate.<\/p>\n

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When I did finally find the food area, there was no obvious store with omurice. I made a pest of myself asking restaurants if they made the omurice that was shown on instagram.<\/p>\n

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After striking out and being told that it was probably the previous restaurant at a particular spot (the tables looked the same) I decided to have some Indian food.<\/p>\n

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It was unremarkable at best as it was kind of bland. The naan was great, though. It was probably better than my second choice.<\/p>\n

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As expected, I did not feel 100% this morning. After rooting around my suitcase I could only fine one clean shirt so decided it was time to do laundry. Remember all the bad things I was saying about this faux fancy hotel? They have the all-in-one washer\/dryers that never wash nor dry properly. Note how the laundry room also has a dehumidifier in it to boost the effectiveness of the dryer? I decided to just go to a coin laundry. It was a bit of a walk to the first decent coin laundry according to teh Googs but the front desk told me about a much closer capsule hotel that … Continue reading Japan Day 11: Sapporo<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}