Itinerary Overview:
Day 2: Noboribetsu - Date - Hakodate
Day 3: Hakodate
Day 4: Lake Toya
Day 5: Furano
Day 6: Biei - Asahikawa
Day 7: Asahikawa
Day 8: Sapporo
Day 9: Otaru - Sapporo
Day 10: Sapporo
Day 11: Chitose
Singapore Changi Airport
A series of unfortunate events for the start, we forgot to take BabyTan's chow chow, in which we had to hire a grab just to specially bring the chow chow to the airport. All these unfortunate events were dismissed by the nice flight of Singapore Air, with good food and in-flight entertainment. We were also blessed that babyTan continued another 1-2hours of sleeping time on board the plane. This gave us some freetime to enjoy the in-flight entertainment.
We reserved the child meal for babyTan and both mama and papaTan took the japanese lunch. We had no regrets, both the child meal and japanese lunch were great!
Haneda Airport
When we were retrieving our luggages, we discovered that a similar luggage was floating around. PapaTan could identify that the luggage despite looking similar, was not ours as it did not have babyTan's usual stickers on it. After couple of minutes of waiting, the airport staff approached us and asked about our situation. They were helpful, helped to call the owner of the luggage, and found the guy. He u-turned back to exchange the luggage, which we were happy this happened, as the initial option given to us was to deliver to our hotel in Chitose/ Hakodate.
Really grateful to the friendly staff of Haneda Airport (the guy and two ladies) for all the help. The two ladies even accompanied us all the way, till we check-in and boarded the shuttle bus. Thank you very much!
New Chitose Airport - Dinner @ 一幻Ramen
By the time we reached, most of the shops were closed, less those at the ramen area. We went for the most famous ramen store, and no doubt, our first ramen is good. The soup was good, and the ramen was cooked "just nice". We finished the whole bowl of soup and ramen.
If you did car rental, probably you have to call the shop to arrange for shuttle service. For the company that i rented from, there was no booth in the airport, and we had to call a number to reach them. PapaTan initially wanted to use his own auto-roaming to call, but he realised that there were several phones at the car rental booths (they also closed already. All have to call them car rental company to arrange for transport), he picked up and use to call the Nikku Car Rental. Surprisingly, it worked. The call went through and saved on auto-roaming service (cheap chill).
+81 123-45-6755
10AM–9PM
Best Western Plus Hotel Fino Chitose, Chiyoda-cho, Chitose, Japan
Check-in was smooth, and there is a 7-11 just opposite the hotel. The necessities can be purchased easily. There are also yakotori just below the hotel (note that taking-away is not allowed) and about 400m away (see below). Best thing is that, there is a Geo Mart (600m) just beside the Chitose Station, and it is open until 12midnight! For gamers, this will be the heaven for you. I spent 1-2 hours on the last day of the trip in this shop!
〒066-0062 北海道千歳市Chiyoda-cho, 3丁目3
+81 123-40-0033
Supper - 串鳥 千歳駅前店
Commendable from this shop are their beef and chicken meat. Tried a ginger one, and it tasted really bad.
串鳥 千歳駅前店
〒066-0062 北海道千歳市千代田町5丁目5−1
+81 123-40-1194
4:30PM–12:30AM