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| The kind lady we met at the train station. |
Our next stop was up north! We took the Tobu railway link from Tokyo to Aomori, took a ferry from Aomori to the Hokkaido, then finally a train from a small village on the coast to Sapporo Hokkaido! It took us a very long time for all the traveling and staying in those crammed trains were uncomfortable and didn't help Thomas's claustrophobia. But the trains were very cool, they all had black leather seats with the reds painted blue. We could see the farms as they zoom by.
After each train ride we got some rice and fish, it was extremely nice to have some fresh fish in a coastal city, I have never tasted Mai (red snapper) that was so good.
My friend Thomas taught me many new card games on the rain rides to pass the time. Have you ever heard of Gin, Oh Crud, or Spoons?
It wasn't hard to get our tickets. In Canada a two train tickets from Toronto to Ottawa cost about 69$ in economy class and 136 in business class. Our train tickets in Japan though were much cheaper here.
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| Our speedy train |
Luckily for us we met a nice woman who spoke English and helped us from train to train. If it wasn't for her we probably have made it to Sapporo so easily!
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