Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Hakodate 2.0

During my stay in Setana and after coming back from Sapporo I traveled again to Hakodate to visit some new places which I couldn’t see in my first time there and re-visit some places I really like. This time my stay in this city was from April 4th to April 8th.

Hakodate is a place that I really love, mostly because of the landscape and now that the weather is getting better taking a walk in nearby places is very nice and relaxing!

I had to visit Mount Hakodate for  a second time, in this video I recorded the first time I was there this winter, now days almost all snow is gone and in some areas of the trail I could run :) One could spend hours and hours with the beautiful scenery from this excellent place!!! 

Kimuni, Hallic, Chan Mami and Ju chan! There's a fox at the end...How perfect!!!

Other place we visited this time (Sabina, Mami, Shogo and Me) was the star shaped park named Goryoukaku, sadly I couldn’t  see the famous cherry blossoms in this park, but it’s a very nice place and it has an old government building replica (the original was destroyed by a fire), this place’s architecture is awesome, I want my house with this architectural style! :) Here some photos from the park and the building… In the last picture I’m blinding the monument’s face with one purpose: they say that if you touch this guy’s face you will become more clever! :O !!!

Goryoukaku Tower...  Reconstructed Government Palace...

The palace from the inside...  Hallic, Mami and Shogo...

Freedom! Touching this guy's face makes you clever!!!

After the star-shaped park we visited what it used to be a Christian monastery , a very interesting and rare place in Japan. Now days the area is just a small tourist town. On the way to the monastery we had green tea ice cream and everybody was very happy…

Die Mami!! ;D On our way to the monastery... The monastery... Green tea ice cream... Miguel Archangel :)

This time we could also visit a very nice guy who’s main dedication is carpentry. Here we all built a type of wooden box which I gave as a present for my host family in Setana. We had a great afternoon talking with this gentleman… Here some pictures from his workshop…

Working on the wooden box... The workshop... Strange right hand... Such a nice guy!

Finally some photos and a video from my favorite place in Hakodate… The vibe from this place is great!! :D

Japanese cemetery... The place is like 10 meters away from the beach... Perfect!!!

Ah! And something curious… Hardcore gamers will recognize this sign’s similarity with a particular game… I didn’t knew that portals really exist!!! :O !!!

Portal...

In the next posts I will tell you about my last days in Setana, my first and present days in Tokyo, my journey to Kyoto and my travel to Korea which is in planning stage…

Live life to the fullest!!! :D

See ya!!! :D

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