Akita and Niseko

We are now up to day 15.

After the fox village we went to Akita. It turned out that the wasn't lot planned for this area but it turned out ok.

We went to Osaki Hachimangu Shrine for my Akita goshuin. The tori gate out front here was fucking huge!

So I got my goshuin there, then that night we went to Round 1. That was good fun. We paid around $25 to get access to all the to floor for a few hours, which included archery, trampolines, arcade games, baseball, mini golf, etc. It was very tiring, especially after walking half an hour to get to Round 1, but lots of fun.

Next stop was Niseko. We stayed at Niseko Youraku Hotel, which is quite far out from stuff so we had to get a taxi to get into town, but the owners were really cool. On the first night, the owner drove us to a shop to get food. And later in the to his wife drove me to a shrine to get goshuin. This time the shrine was Niseko Kaributo shrine.

I bought 5 days of ski hire from Rythm Niseko but ended up using 3 and refunding the last 2. Because of the way their pricing works this was a small refund though. Skiing was good fun as always, but Niseko in general is pretty overpriced.

Next we went to Sapporo for the snow festival. I'll make a separate post for that.