Comments on: Japan Photo of the Week: Hakodate

By: morningstar

morningstar — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:51:41 +0000

I will not eat anything brought over from China.

By: LOD

LOD — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:03:33 +0000

If you are not into seafood, I’d recommend the local humberger store called “Lucky Pierrot”. Their “Chinese Chicken Burger” is very nice.

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:17:46 +0000

are you implying that the only thing good about Japan is seafood?

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:57:01 +0000

Hokkaido is pretty big so from place to place could vary a lot on any given day, but just as a starting point, Sapporo (the largest city in Hokkaido) has an average of about 23 celcius in August. In general, and more importantly, it is less humid than the rest of Japan during the summer and there is less of a rainy season. Seriously, the humidity is the worst part of Japan’s summers, not the heat.

By: morningstar

morningstar — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:01:58 +0000

Interesting place yes? Hope you had a wonderful time in Hakodate. Thanks for the photo.

By: LordHuggington

LordHuggington — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:07:00 +0000

Nice, so what is the Hokkaido region’s weather like in the summer temperature-wise? 20-30 degrees celcius? Comparable to the Pacific North West? Northern Europe? A frame of reference would be great. =D

By: Evan

Evan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:00:04 +0000

vegetables just bc I am not a huge fan doesn’t mean I won’t eat some of it…

By: WEH

WEH — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:48:56 +0000

“For me, I am not a huge fan of seafood”

Dude, why are you even in Japan?

By: medaka

medaka — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:52:57 +0000

Wow — you’re “not a huge fan of seafood”?

That must be kind of hard to work around,
I mean, what else is there?

By: hiphoptater

hiphoptater — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:15:17 +0000

The top of Hakodate also had these gigantic microwave towers that in the US you wouldn’t be able to get within hundreds of yards of. I remember in the evening they had these booths under it selling food. Doubt they had to heat anything themselves.

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:40:59 +0000

There is a wonderful old foreigners’ graveyard in Hakodate which includes someone from Commodore Perry’s crew as one of the ‘residents’, surrounded (if my imagination does not fail me) by a white picket fence and with Russian names on some of the stones. There’s an orthodox church there too, and there are lovely old wooden houses down the main street. In Hakodate, there were about a dozen POW camps during the war, and there are all sorts of places to explore there. And the people I met there were open and friendly.