To Otaru

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 17 Oct 2017 22:57
The Final Leg of Our Epic
Journey to Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
![]() Our third leg of this six hundred and
seventy six mile journey was from Shin Hakodate Hokuto to
Sapporo.
![]() Well, colour us both happy, we were
sitting waiting for the little local train when on a side track in came Red Bear.
![]() ![]() Looking left
and right, when he got going it took ages for
all his carriages to go through the station.
![]() ![]() Meanwhile, there was a really
annoying woman stuck on a loop telling us where to stand on the platform, to get
on the correct bit of the train. It was also flashing on a TV monitor. I had hoped for ‘D’ for Deer, we got ‘C’ for Cow. Say a word and it will hurt. I wasn’t, I was only thinking it. Hear Pepe
growl.
![]() After fifteen minutes of the
Minnie-sound-alike, our little girl
arrived.
![]() Almost immediately we had scenery.
![]() We wiggled a
bit around Mount Komagatake.
![]() Shame the windows were a little dirty,
but still, lovely.
![]() ![]() Bear decided to eat his late lunch. Oh My. What with the egg in his salad, the bits
of crab and opening his chicken..........
![]() .........I wasn’t sorry to get a breather at Sapporo. The nice Fat Controllers came over and asked us if
we were OK. We showed our tickets and they each said “Third train”.
![]() ![]() One of our
super smartly turned out, skinny, Fat Controllers as
Bear stands messily out of a queuing
line.
![]() Our train
appears on the monitor.
![]() ![]() Three stops (yellow blobs) on the map.
![]() ![]() On the dot, our
fourth and final girl came in.
![]() Forty two minutes later we were at
Otaru Chikko Station.
![]() ![]() Outside, we followed the arrows to
our hotel down a covered walkway, turned
left and went down another long walkway and there we were in a huge shopping mall. If you arrive after ten at night you
have to leave the station by an outdoor exit and walk along the road.
![]() ![]() We walked for ages passing loads of shops, then suddenly on the right, there was our hotel
entrance.
![]() Beds soon
settled. We had two beds, sort of big singles, I knew at
once we would snuggle on the one. Too right. You pick
one and I’ll be there. (Bear won’t sleep by himself unless I am on
watch on Beez) we have to do it then, what you would
expect, strange and I do miss you but not now. OK then. Snuggle it
is.
![]() ![]() Another amazing
toilet. Seat heat set on low, soon turned to high.
![]() Within minutes our room had the ‘moved in look’, glad to see
your case on the other bed. It can be moved you
know. But...... We were settling to cob a squat (picnic)
with cheese rolls, a banana and a shared packet of crisps, we know how to
roll......
ALL IN ALL A GREAT JOURNEY TO
A LOVELY TOWN BY THE SEA
THE JOURNEY WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF A LIFETIME
AMBITION
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