Elisa's Travel Diary

Top Things to Do in Sapporo Sapporo is the capital of the Northern part of Japan, Hokkaido. If you travel to Sapporo, I would suggest staying at hotel nearby the JR Sapporo station, so that could save subway fee from JR Sapporo to other station. In Hokkaido, we can use the SUICA Card that we bought in any stations in Tokyo, but we cannot top-up the balance for SUICA card in Hokkaido. So make sure if you have top up enough amounts when you were at Tokyo. Day 1 Shiroi Koibito Park Shiroi Koibito is famous for the biscuit made in Hokkaido. Almost every part of Japan sells the biscuits, it can also easily be found outside Hokkaido. This is not a theme park, there is no adrenaline attraction. It is simply a park with beautiful decoration, and a chocolate factory. I visited there during Christmas, so there was Christmas illumination and amazing decorations.   Attractions in the park: 1.       A café offering the Ishiya’s sweets and souvenirs shop...

Hida Takayama 飛騨高山 Takayama is a beautiful getaway choice when you want to visit Shirakawa-go. Getting to Takayama from Shirakawago: After spent around 3 hours in Shirakawa-go, I traveled to Takayama with Nohi Bus. Travel between Kanazawa, Shirakawa-go, and Takayama can be accessed with Nohi bus. Online reservation is required for most of the nohi routes. The Nohi Bus to Takayama is in front the Shirakawago Bus Terminal. It took around 40 minutes to arrived Takayama from Shirakawago. As I mentioned in my previous post, my main purpose of this trip was to visit Shirakawa go. So before heading back  to Tokyo, I planned to spend around 4 hours in Takayama. I didn’t bring any luggage, so it is easy for me to walk around the city. Even if you have luggage with you, you can put your luggage in the coin locker at the bus terminal next to the train station. Getting around Takayama: Takayama is a small city and easy to go around by foot. There are plenty of guesthouse a...