And off to Sapporo

after the long wait, we caught a train to Sapporo - with a change after 4 1/2hours then another 1 1/2hours.  We were a bit sick of sitting by the end of the day.

We dropped our bags and went off to have tea.  The next morning we went for the usual walk around the town. Some photos of the sights:

Sapporo Tower 

these photos were taken in a beautiful park running through the centre of town. Lots of people were out celebrating the Lilac festival.

the lilac.

the black mantra which was a slide

another sculpture in the park

An old government building from 1878

Court of Appeals

Later in the afternoon, tony went off to have a look around Sapporo Beer.museum whilst I went to Tokyu Hands and we met up in the Biergarten for dinner.  This is us having our meal.

It was a specialty of the area called genghiskhan- it was lamb and vegetable cooked on this little barbecue sort of thing on the table - it was delicious!

And that was Sapporo.  We only had the day but we walked a lot and covered a lot of territory.  The next morning we were off to catch the train again for an 8 hour trip back to Tokyo where we met Paul who took us home to Hiyoshi where we were met with an enthusiastic welcome from Buddy and JJ