Otaru 2D1N Trip Part 1

I am sorry peeps for not updating my blog for quite some time again because I was rushing to do my internship report. Was worrying the hell outta me. Worried that I cant graduate same time as my friend; will I be penalized? these questions kept playing in my mind...

Sorted it all out finally~ *Cross finger* I will pass with flying colour and posting my convo picture in the blog! (^.^)Y or that's why I had the weird dream bitten by snake... maybe someone caused it to, you-know-who-you-are =p

Just warning you, this will be a super duper long post. Too many pictures of sightseeing and my camwhore to tell you how amazing was the trip!

Christmas just finished not long ago and before CNY comes - things start getting busy and crazy. I decided that we go to a short excursion @ a nearby city - Otaru. Abit of facts about Otaru before I confused you ;)

• a city and a port located northwest of Sapporo
• one of the leading tourist destinations in Japan
• at one time a canal is running through middle of the town but now just only a part of it is preserved
• is Ainu habitation
• for Ainu, Otaru = river running through the sandy beach

Abstracted info from Wikipedia and summary of it.

Enough... enough... I shall begin my journey~

took the earliest bus from staff house to Kutchan station

Kutchan eki = Kutchan Station

snow and snow and more snow - it was quite hard to walk with my addidas

just another old JR station

Celine @ Kutchan station =p

It took us about 2 hours to reach Otaru Station

See the difference between Kutchan station and Otaru station? I love city! such a city gal =p

glimpse of the station

Ok... time to search for the hotel I booked through phone. I have no expectation of how the hotel look like...randomly find one in the the tourist brochure. Spoken to an old lady over the phone and pleased that she understood my very broken Japanese language! lol.