We finally went on our long-awaited day trip to Otaru. We got up and got ready, and left the hotel around 11am to catch the train.
Otaru is a small town an hour away from Sapporo. It's home to a shopping street with music box (orgel) makers, bakeries and glass-blowers.
I got a little music box that plays the chorus of Kiseki by Greeeen, and I also got some little trinkets to decorate the box with. :D Here are some photos taken from the music box museum (unfortunately mine is not as pretty as these:
Spot the odd one out :D
Then we went into various bakeries and confectionery shops to try all the free samples :D
Once that was over, we split into two groups - the shopping group and the playing-with-snow/eating group. The former consisted of my mother, Sam, my aunty and myself (and then my grandmother after she got ditched by the other group while using the toilet lol).
We had a look in various shops, selling chopsticks and crafts made from traditional brocade (still don't remember what it's called fail). There was a pair of chopsticks going for 8400 yen (roughly NZD$135).
Since 2011 is the year of the rabbit, everything was rabbit-y
Sam and I looking at all the little glass ornaments 8D
Glass-blower at work
There were also a lot of little stalls selling snacks, like gyoza, rice crackers and 'bakudan-yaki'; a cross between tako-yaki and okonomi-yaki. So basically a gigantic tako-yaki containing okonomi-yaki ingredients.
Gyozaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Rice cracker stall
Crabs that were bigger than my face D:
Bakudan-yaki!
We spent pretty much the whole day there, even going without dinner (though we did have snacks from a combini) and got home after the sun had gone down. All in all a rather fun day.
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