Hakodate

Firstly, I arrived at Hakodate leaving Kansai airport. It was said to be 13 degree Centigrade outside then. It was really cold. Take a look at Goryo-kaku and stayed Hakodate. Why Hakodate? Because my company wanted to have night sight-seeing there.

The sea of Hakodate

This is near air-port, I rushed toward the breakwater to see dark sea. From there, the city looked like this.
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Mystery

One mysterious thing in Hokkaido is that dandelion is so huge. Look at the photo below. Somehow strange, right?
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This mystery was solved several days after in. This was not a real dandelion. It was another sort of flower called dandelion-like.
And here is another mysterious flower. It became our star during our trip. We name it "nyoki nyoki". This is also extremely big. All over Hokkaido you can find it.
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Night in Hakodate

I was expecting night sight-seeing, though Mt.Hakodate was surrounded by rain cloud. Instead we took a walk around and found a nice church. It was fun.
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My company looked quite unhappy about night sight-seeing and complained. Take it easy!! Let's enjoy! These cats in Hakodate like to play with tourists. They entertained us, too.
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This is not actually a church but a ropeway station. It doesn't seem it is.
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And there is light everywhere in Hokkaido. Easy to walk outside at night time.
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We stayed in the hotel in Hakodate. Next day we drove to Otaru.

Hakodate to Otaru

It was also bad weather next day. As to escape a rain cloud we drove toward the sea side. As I expected, we had great sunshine above our heads. Now on we never see rain cloud or so.

Driving along the sea. There were many cliffs and their faults which were beautiful.
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There was also a fall.
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We came via Benkei-misaki(cape), somehow there stood Benkei-kun waiting for Yoshitsune-san. Is this true??!! Looking panorama from the cape, the sun going forward the west is so shining.
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This flower was on the cape, but I saw everywhere in Hokkaido. It's name is Ezokanzou in Japanese.
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And this is a lighthouse. Tiled wall and concrete tower. Yes this is old style one but has stylish feel.
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