From Hakodate take Private line to Kikonai Station. train ride along Hakodate Coast Line, very beautiful.
Hakodate Best Conveyor Belt Sushi ....函太郎 宇賀浦本店 Kantaro Sushi

I took batik air early this month, and the service was pretty good. Plenty of legroom too, but need to prepared something to get past the boredom onboard lol.

What provider you with? I’m using digi roaming, everyday 3gb internet and will refreshed daily. I believe celcom and maxis have the same roaming plan also.

Thanks will check it out!

Good to hear about your flight experience with Batik Air.
Will consider it.

I have Maxis and Celcom, later will check it out.

Thanks for your update.

Using esim?

Nope good old SIM card, esim should work the same too

Ok, thank you for the info.

Hi guys. I will be travelling to Hokkaido this September. Plan to self drive around there. Total passengers -5 (including myself as driver). Any tips and guide can provide? Many thanks in advance

This post has been edited by virgoguy: Feb 24 2025, 09:38 AM

self drive parking price kaw2..if budget no issue then no problem... if buget got issue then better just use public train....their train very efficient one...alwasy got train there

Not every place in Hokkaido are accessible by public transport eh? Especially Sapporo region?

This post has been edited by virgoguy: Feb 24 2025, 12:55 PM

there are trains...in sapporo..but like i said..if u have the budget to rent a car and pay their overpriced parking fee then u can go with that option...but if your in a budget then just use the train transport....dont know about other...should wait and ask other people in this forum....last time went to osaka...yeah i know that place is a packed tourist attaction and that was my first trip to japan... at first damn scred looking at google maps to go to other place...but then my fren teach me...it was really simple...

depends on where u are going.

Central Hokkaido still ok to rely on public transport

Going Northern Hokkaido especially to Asahikawa, Furano, Biei is recommended to self-drive because public transport timing is less frequent

just got back from 3 weeks trip to Japan.
went to Tokyo, Hakuba for snow sports and then Kansai region and then Oita and Fukuoka before flying back to Malaysia.

Weather in Japan was crazy, snowing to much where it usually snows, and snowing at places where normally doesnt snow.

YA will be going to these areas (Asahikawa, Furano, Biei)

Hey man, I will be travelling to Tokyo this weekend for 2 weeks and I'm planning to travel to Hakone, Kyoto & Osaka. Is the weather in Japan that crazy? Freezing cold? Big wind? Any rainy day you encountered? Got any advice for first time traveller?

if you are going in September shouldn't be an issue, i think there's only one thing where you must stop at the junction when there's that triangle sign. Stop for 3 seconds before you start going again. Please don't ignore the sign.

I think the parking fees will be cheaper compare to Sapporo. Parking in Sapporo per day is like 2500 yen, especially near Odori Park cause i stayed near there last time.

i stayed in Japan for 6 years, and this was around 20plus years ago.
when i went there on the recent trip, even on the news mentioned how crazy the weather for this winter.

when i was in Hakuba there was even a snowstorm warning. i still remember that night.
its almost march but even weather in big cities are still cold.

Because you are also travelling to Osaka, i checked some data for you.
in february 2024, the temperature was around 3 or 4 degrees lowest. with high being 16, 17 even 20 degrees.
same time this year, lowest is -2, with high being 7 or 8 degrees.

when i was in Osaka for a week, highest temperature was 6, and thats noon time.


Rainy day yeah, but rainy day in winter is just drizzles.... not like rain in summer or rain in Malaysia.

if u coming to Japan for the Hanami/Sakura, then all the days are off a bit this year. because the weather are still cold, most probably bloom later than initially expected.

tip for you, what can i say? im not sure when you going, but do check previous 2024 weather on the dates you are coming. then minus 4 to 5 degrees to estimate for this year. Expect the unexpected.
Winter is almost over so i cant say much without knowing exactly when you are going, but bring some extra layers or just buy at second hand shops there if u dont mind and wanna save luggage space.

I just went to all these places 3 weeks ago, car is preferable than public transport. If without car a lot of places will be very headache to go to. Parking and gas are not cheap though so better prepare some budget for both.

If coming this and next week prepare yourself for hot afternoon and cold night. Am in Tokyo right now and night is super windy and cold.

Japanese prefer public transport because they can walk, Malaysian can't. 5km radius from Station for Japanese = Walkable.
From Sapporo Station they will walk until Susukino Zone
From Tokyo Station walk until Tsukiji
From Shinjuku walk to Harajuku.