the impt ppl at work… thanks to them…

winter without uncle sun is so grey n gloomy..

this picture may seem nice to u, but driving in such weather is no joke!! scary~~

the view from my hotel room, that’s akanko, or lake akan. note the frozen parts nearer to the mainland..

it’s snowing!!!

the frozen branches…

the ‘seemingly’ professionals by the roadside… so i also stopped to take pictures too ahhahaha

a little boy fishing…

looks like waves right? look carefully!! frozen ice dont have to be flat like skating rinks!!!

the chairlifts and it’s shadow…

the autumn leaves back in tokyo/hakone area le~~

a string of balloons hanging along the main street of a small town…

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the table as it is when we arrived… see the crab in the foreground~~

also dunno which is appetiser? or what to eat first?

as we eat, we were served the tempura with ocha salt…

the sashimi~~~ really FRESH!!!

the rice that was cooked while we ate… see the scallops~~~

save the best for the last~~~ altho full to the brim already… and the dessert.. nothing spectacular, hence no pic…

of cos not forgetting where we were… the nice scenery… snowy~~~

the frozen waterfalls…

close up of the snowflakes on the car window…

look carefully… the structures are actually ice sculptures in the making… for the feb snow ceremony i think…

to be continued….

it’s my fourth trip to japan since aug 2006! looks like i m beginning to like japan alot hor~~~~

ok first pic… my v first meal in hokkaido after several air meals…

hmmmm so simple yet so YUMMY~~~~

doesn’t it make u hungry??

being winter, the day gets really dark at 4/5pm, n of cos it’s really COLD~~~

here’s the proof! it’s 5.16pm n minus 3 degrees!!!!

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according to my japanese friend, tomoko, asahikawa has the most famous zoo in japan!

and the winter highlight!!!! the penguin parade…

overview first..

up close n personal…

do they know what are these machines for?

n i like the polar bears at the zoo too… there are 3 there!!