thanks for the suggestion

tweaking it a bit after reading more of other people's blogs, planning end April-early May where there's no snow nor pink moss nor lavender:
day 1 arrive Hokkaido
day 2 Sapporo
day 3 Asahikawa day trip
day 4 Sapporo to Otaru
day 5 Otaru
day 6 Otaru
day 7 Otaru to Noboribetsu
day 8 Noboribetsu
day 9 Lake Toya day trip
day 10 Noboribetsu to Hakodate
day 11 Hakodate to Tokyo
day 12 Tokyo
day 13 Tokyo - Disneyland
day 14 Tokyo - Disneysea
day 15 Tokyo
day 16 depart Tokyo

Trying to do 3 nights in Sapporo, Otaru and Noboribetsu each... The thing i am unsure is whether:
1. 1.5-2 days in Sapporo is enough - there's nothing much there aside from the beer factory
2. 3 nights in Noboribetsu too much? 
3. 1-1.5 days in Hakodate enough - the reason this is here is because of the train to Tokyo

which town has more food? initially put Otaru more because there seems to be more good food there when i googled

Farm Tomito is a bit out of the way, train takes almost 4 hours, is it worth it to rent a car and drive 1.5 hours just to go there?

hmmm... interesting... do you have any car rental recommendation?
i saw that a Toyota Yaris equivalent comes out cheaper than taking JR 7 day Hokkaido pass!
that's going to save me quite a lot of train rides!

Any thumb of rule for car rent ?

International license require right ?

Is it worth getting the JR Hokkaido Pass ?

My 5N6D itinerary will be as below:

1st day - New Chitose --> Otaru
2nd day - Otaru ---> Hakodate
3rd day - Hakodate ---> Sapporo
4th day - Sapporo only
5th day - Shiroi Koibito + Bankei Ski Area
6th day - Sapporo ---> New Chitose

I'm kinda confuse with JR Hokkaido Pass coverage 
*im going next February

btw guys.. which airport is preferable to choose? narita or haneda ?

Thanks

So that means I dont need 4WD and snow tyres to rent a car.

Another question is anyone know this spot to take this photo?

Ah... since my cousins all tell me it's "budget airline", I really thought so! I agree their food is pretty good so no complain on that. They even serve Häagen-Dazs.

Unfortunately their older, lower res and smaller screen for inflight entertainment also isn't doing them much favour. Even MAS's screen is better ...and they probably knew of the problem with the ventilation as there were no blanket or pillow provided. Likely to know it's hot so no blanket is necessary for passengers.

My friend suggest me to put our last night near to the aiport as my flight the next day is 9.20am, to avoid transportation issue(worst is winter storm) to the airport, do you think is it fine if I remain my stay in Sapporo city and catch the earliest train to airport?

Draft itinerary for upcoming ski trip done, any comments / issues / suggestions @ sifu sifu sekalian?
(costs are in sgd for 2ppl)

Purpose of trip is mostly for skiing and a few days in Tokyo to cover things I havent done before. Costs are high cos this time taking 4days ski lessons.

RegentCid ooooh i record it down and try and plan it in.
sweet_pez good point. i might not necessarily do sushi though, this trip only few days in tokyo so don't want to spend too much time queueing.

I saw a lot of blog review mentioned that for the free pass like kamakura/enoshima, hakone, nikko. Why people always say that in order to take the train back to tokyo you need to take the last train at 5pm the latest? I check on the timetable seem like those line is actually did go back to tokyo even at a later time and 5pm is not the latest train to catch. Am i missing something here?

Guys who are familiar with Hokkaido, can I check if JR Pass cover the Airport train from Chitose to Sapporo? I checked via Hyperdia and all these trains are about 30 minutes away compared to JR trains which can take 60 minutes?

is 1h10m enough time for transit? kl-sg-nrt