Hi Guys

I have 2 days to spend at sapporo next week

- Otaru 1 day
- Sapporo Free & Easy 1 day

Is it possible to drive there or take public transport ?

public transport is good enough...

driving in snow...not that easy

Thanks

Get the Sapporo Otaru welcome pass, the best way to visit Otaru and Sapporo for a short trip.

You might want to consider taking the morning bus (6-7am) to Kawaguchiko, the view is
Not so sure about spring time, the last time we went in November, the visibility not as good due to fog from 11:30am-12pm onwards.

thanks

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Just finished booking my hotel, for guys comments

3/4 - monday - Tokyo airbnb at Shinjuku
4/4 - Tues - same
5/4 - wed - same
6/4 - Thurs - same
7/4 - Fri - afternoon bus to kawaguchiko lake, stay at fujigenkei hotel
8/4 - sat - go hakone, stay at tonosawa ichinoyu
9/4 - sun - go yokohama , stay at bay hotel tokyu
10/4 - mon - go haneda airport take flight to Sapporo

Any comment ?

I would stay in put in Tokyo and take the highway bus to visit lake kawaguchiko as well as all the places you mentioned for a day trip if you only plan to stay for 1 night. Moving all your luggage around for short stays is not enjoyable. I know it cos I just did it.

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[quote=huaweie5830,Jan 2 2017, 11:32 PM]
Just finished booking my hotel, for guys comments

3/4 - monday - Tokyo airbnb at Shinjuku
4/4 - Tues - same
5/4 - wed - same
6/4 - Thurs - same
7/4 - Fri - afternoon bus to kawaguchiko lake, stay at fujigenkei hotel
8/4 - sat - go hakone, stay at tonosawa ichinoyu
9/4 - sun - go yokohama , stay at bay hotel tokyu
10/4 - mon - go haneda airport take flight to Sapporo

Any comment ?

I would stay in put in Tokyo and take the highway bus to visit lake kawaguchiko as well as all the places you mentioned for a day trip if you only plan to stay for 1 night. Moving all your luggage around for short stays is not enjoyable. I know it cos I just did it.

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Not bringing luggage , maybe some small backpack for 3days 2 nights, will post forward my luggage from shinjuku to yokohama .

Sure will stay at kawaguchiko and hakone to enjoy their onsen, else I felt wasted

Guys need advice on the Hokkaido trip early April

Which route / direction to go if I want to go to

Monday evening around 3 to 4pm reached airport
Sunday morning flight back to KL, basically a 5 full days in Hokkaido

The place I want to go sapporo, noboribetsu and otaru

make sapporo your central stay...
then take train to otaru (short trip) and noboribetsu (slightly longer trip than otaru)

otaru just do day trip from sapporo (don't bother staying overnight).
noboribetsu stay at least 1 night. lyn recommended ryokan is takimotokan cos the onsen is awesome.
whether to do noboribetsu first or sapporo/otaru first depends on your flight times IMO. example if your arrival into CTS is afternoon then it's probably better to do sapporo first.

Thanks for the reply.otaru maybe I will skip the overnight , but noboribetsu sure will stay one or 2 nights. Plan to stay till very late at otaru, coz hear the night scene at the river super nice, but don't know wat is the last train back to Sapporo. Do you know ?

Ok . Looks like will go to Sapporo before heading to noboribetsu . But my flight back to kl, is Sunday morning 920am japan time, can I get transport to aiport from the onsen hotel in such early timing ?

Hello Guys,

Have any of you been to Gala Yuzawa?

Does the rental of the clothes, equipment and lift tickets separate? I calculated and I probably need slightly more than 10k yen for 1 person (Includes ticket, ski rental, wear rental) is this right?

I will have a JR pass. Will there be any discount at all for individual with JR pass?

Thank you very much!

It was all separate prices for each.

We had the gala passes. So there were some discount. Didn't see any discount package for jr pass

hyperdia will be your good friend in japan if you are not driving...

Wao good website
just found that last train from otatu to sapporu is 1110pm

Hokkaido get dark very early. Also I doubt you will spend until the last train as basically nothing much to do there so late at night. Was there during winter, took some photos at night, dinner and left about 8:30PM for Sapporo.

Supper etc gua , or drink something while enjoy their scene.... when u say early ,ARD wat time it start to get dark ?

Btw need to go noboribetsu first then Sapporo, else if depart frm noboribetsu on Sunday morning , no transport to catch my early flight at 920am.....

Was there 3 years ago so my memory is still vague. If I remember correctly it start to get dark at 5PM. Went searching for dinner and most shops are close! And it was during Christmas period. There are shops inside the warehouse, but dinner dont look so yummy. I think there are some shops along the river but not sure what time they close. I got bored after a while, thats why I left early. Remembering back I actually stayed a night in Otaru - Dormy Inn which is just opposite the train station. The hotel offer free hot udon, that might also be the reason I left early.

I checked the weather , looks like April still OK, sunset at 6pm+ like Malaysia

Just had to hope tat not all shops closed so early .....