Just come back from japan yesterday night, finally end my 14 days trip with my 2 years old kid.. which half of the trip she fall sick, thus we have to compromise itinerary (75% done)

this is one my my favorite shoot while i m in kawaguchiko lake.

(file very big ya)

I'm planning a trip with my 2yo too next year oct

Dammit, didn't leh! The only corn I eat in Hokkaido is one snack 'potato corn butter'
Yeah. Many major places in Hokkaido can get to by train and bus ... but the frequency is very low. So most people will recommend renting car to drive, or take tour.

Anyway our car rental costs ... around 1200km total driving from sapporo to otaru to sounkyo to asahikawa to jozankei to noboribetsu to hakodate.

▫ 8-day car rental ¥67,918
▫ One-way charge (for returning the car in Hakodate) ¥7,560
▫ 9-days Hokkaido Expressway Pass ¥8,700
▫ Petrol and Parking (estimated) ¥20,000

1) Toyota Allion 1.8. If you have 4 adults 3 kids I think you need to rent 2 cars.



2) Car 1 day rental is "24 hours" i.e. you rent today 10am return tomorrow 10am = "1 day." But the ETC pass is by number of calendar days; i.e. if today and tomorrow you plan to drive on expressway then you need to buy 2 days.

But actually if I look back, once I reach Hakodate I never drive expressway liao so I should have buy less days for the ETC pass.

You going at Early Nov or Mid or late Nov?
If Late Nov, Have any snow driving exp before?

No SNow driving exp better don't.  Driving on snow are extremely hard. One small accident your holiday can say bye bye .

areankim do remember that 7 seater mpv's have very very minimal boot space if you have 7 people. For me unless you pack super light you won't have place to store your luggage.