Sapporo Sightseeing
The next morning we were contacted by the Nagoya airport, and was told our luggage was found and it's on its way to the hotel in the afternoon. Apparently it was left in Frankfurt for a day. So we went out in the morning to do some sightseeing, and a lot of eating of course. We went to the Sapporo station to check out the department stores and had lunch in a small curry shop. Afterwards, we went to the famous Snow Brand ice cream parlor and saw a group of young kids sharing the super size ice cream sundae. Then we found out we left the other camera in the curry shop ! Though being in Japan, we were quite confident that we would be able to retrieve it, and sure enough, the shop owner had turned in the camera to the lost and found, and gave us very detailed directions to the information counter to get our camera back.
TV Tower
Odori park
Clock tower
Curry Omlette rice
Tomato and Egg curry rice
Strawberry cake
Snow Brand ice cream parlor
Super-size sundae
We went back to the hotel early afternoon, and was told that our luggage had arrived. We were fortunate that the delay had not derailed our vacation plan too much. (And we just got the check from Lufthansa 2 weeks after sending our claim.)
Otaru
In the early evening, we took the train to Otaru. We thought it's a place crowded with tourists, but to our surprise, it's actually a nice quiet town and some stores were closing early too. We walked towards the canal, took some photos when it's still bright, and checked out couple stores and stopped for a big Takkoyaki - grilled octopus dumpling, and returned to the canal when it's dark to take couple night shots.
Otaru station
Otaru
Canal daytime view
Takkoyaki
Nighttime canal view
Sapporo Crab Dinner
Satisfied with our Otaru outing, we returned to Sapporo for dinner. There are so many must have food in Sapporo that we could spend a whole week there and still won't get to try everything we want to. But the Hokkaido crab is not to be missed. We looked up our guidebook and found one all you can eat crab restaurant near the easy to spot ferris wheel landmark. The entire building is full of restaurants, and the one we were heading is called Shrimp Crab Battle in literal translation. While it's all you can eat, you must first finish a set dinner with crab, shrimp, sushi, steamed egg custard before you can order additional items. Obviously that's to discourage people from only eating the more expensive items, but that won't stop us from eating everything and then going for the extra round of crab ! After dinner, we walked back to our hotel, and enjoyed some night scenery of Susukino.
Sapporo eye
Restaurant building
Crab
Susukino after dark