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On Tuesday morning the family assembled for a long three train journey to Hokkaido.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At our first destination, Hakodate<\/a>, we visited the cape just as the sun started to set behind Mt. Hakodate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I disappeared to take this picture as the cabs waited for us. I could hear Sam yelling for me, but she couldn’t see me. A few minutes later the rest of the Fam realized what the view looked like on the western side of the cape and ran over as I was hurrying back.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had dinner at a fancy local restaurant with lots of great food (but few customers) then took a cab (because the ropeway was closed for renovation) to the Mt. Hakodate Observatory<\/a> on top of the mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wind rushed around the top swiftly enough to discourage the Fam from staying too long. They went back to the cabs and back to the hotel while I stayed and tried to get some stabilized shots. As throngs of teenagers arrived on buses and rattled the rails my gorrilapod<\/g> was affixed to I realized that long exposures weren’t going to happen here and took the public bus back to the hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first instinct for teenagers in Japan when reaching the observatory is to yell as if they’ve been stabbed in the back. I wonder if they’re conversely silent at sporting events and think WE’RE the weird ones.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The next morning, before catching our train to Noboribetsu, we walked to the Hakodate Asaichi<\/a> for breakfast, focusing on super fresh crab and the most delicious salmon\/tuna in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mmmm, that’s good salmon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buy here! My fresh unmodified product is different than the other twenty fresh crab sellers on the same block that buy from the same fishermen! (note the eye-rolling daughter inside that can’t wait to get out of this little redneck town and do something in the big city, not gonna be the latest fish monger in a long line of… actually I have no idea if they’re related and might I might be projecting a bit…never mind!)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also tried squid ink ice cream, which didn’t really taste like much of anything.
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