If you think about it, every trip (in addition to direct days of vacations), there are two happy dates:
This is the day to purchase tickets and pay day loan that you took to go into this journey. Not everyone was able to experience the latest. And tell me then what these people know about the rest? )))
When I was finishing this Chapter, it has been almost two years since the trip, and most recently, I experienced this wonderful moment: made the last payment on the loan for him. No, don't think that it was some kind of incredible amount, and I two years did not eat, wore rags and worked eight jobs to justify those happy days in Japan and on Sakhalin. Of course not. But, nevertheless, each month, a tangible part of my budget, I took it to the Bank, remembering that this is not a cheap thing to travel to Japan.
Why am I telling You all this. Perhaps, only then to once again to justify the low speed of writing my travel notes. Two years have passed, and I barely get to the middle of the description of his visit to the country of the root of the sun and the branches of the cherry blossoms. But, if you think even better, these two years, constantly, slowly coming back to writing your own short stories, I day by day continue their journey and taking my time. And if the money that I spent on the trip, divide on the calculator on the years that will be spent on its description, it turns out that the trip to Japan is an extremely economical piece ;)
But back on the second full day of our stay in Sapporo.
After glance at the capital of Hokkaido, with mount Moiwa we jumped on the subway and went to the Sapporo Chocolate Factory.
I must say that the horror stories about Japanese subway in Sapporo to feel in their own skin is very difficult.
Even to knock something really no one. And if you guess with time and station – you can get a standard Dachshund a full bed.
I noticed that the Japanese are big fans of beer, do not drink it on the streets. In the warm season (and in our Siberian style in most of Japan is warm almost all year round) like themselves Shinto gods commanded. But no. Thought, may be prohibited by law? Asked this question to a resident of Japan four years ago and her words have found that just not accepted.
And as is sometimes desirable in Japan after difficult leg day that have completed a lot of kilometres to sit on the railing of a busy intersection or just on the pavement of a quiet street, hissing open a can of beer and taking a few large SIPS, saying "BL... well, it is!"
And let's not customary, but if unnoticed, it can sometimes be.
Meanwhile beer knocked us out of the way, and a simple search led us to the Chocolate factory in Sapporo.
How much was the factory visit, I unfortunately can't remember, but I remember that we were handed a branded passport. We had to fill out, visiting various sections of the factory-Museum, the corridors where we went.
What is a Museum without paintings?
Who is this dear citizen, I could not understand, but certainly he has done for the Japanese chocolateparty something remarkable. He may have taught the Japanese that sweet should be sweet and turned all their ideas about beauty.
However, the years go by, some covenants are forgotten.
I wonder what the following pictures shown are not stills from the film about some epidemic and not even the personnel report from the scene of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, but only frames from the shop's chocolate factory.
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Think Japanese raccoons that are well-behaved in a previous life, reborn in the employees of this factory.
The same raccoons that have behaved badly, it was destined to be reborn only in the audience for a thick glass.
Like in the zoo, visitors are watching the employees of the factory. Only if the zoo biscuits to feed the inhabitants of the aviary, here, on the contrary, "prisoners" feed the visitors.
The light at the end of the tunnel I hope it's a little early, but when visiting the Chocolate factory in Sapporo you can expect free cookies at the entrance. However, nothing outstanding in her type was not found.
For an additional fee, you can get a master class in making confectionery.
These rolls I haven't tried, but I can give advice about Japanese confectionaries in General: be careful with expectations. You can't be immune from that lovely pink roll-up will not taste of goose pate.
Japanese ninja.
Surely after the work shift in the shop of chocolate factory on this suit is so much sugar that the crowd of starving students could lick this ninja to death, despite his fighting training.
Don't know whether render these flags distribution network Sapporo Chocolate Factory, but a compliment to some people are exactly
Japanese in search of nano-cookies:
Many of the subsequent photos will clearly require explanation as to their connection with the Chocolate factory )))
It's probably in that one demonstration of the process of preparation of cookies a big traffic of visitors will not do. Here and stuffed the factory, various exhibits, which should entice the audience. Tie them all into a single chain is unlikely, although I can just again something I do not understand the mysterious Japanese logic.
For example, the chorus of the surprised emoticons:
Or these toys. What are they doing in the Museum of the chocolate factory... I comprehend failed:
But this chair, apparently designed for the coronation of young sweet lovers:
Very strict limits )))
Superhero in shorts and boots, no doubt, can expect in Japan for a national love.
In General, each country has their own idea about how should look like a superhero.
Passing through the corridors of the factory Museum, we got to the outdoor part of the exhibit, which was something to see.
Penthouse:
And this construction is the object of universal fotografirovanie.
And, in General, true. Humorous and very powerful installation:
Another entertainment that offer pastry is to ride on the mini railway.
Apparently, you're supposed to enter the chocolate, but, by God, it seems, life turns out the train upside:
In the tunnel, as expected, damp and beautiful.
Greeters happy and excited visitors. Glad they all shift.
We left the Chocolate Factory in Sapporo in a good mood. But only because I like the mood in Japan was permanent. Strictly speaking, to do this on the tourist map of Sapporo as a whole is nothing. If you tune in to the maximum concentration of interesting places to visit, this place can be safely deleted.
I do not hold it against me, dear bakers. I'm not a fan of sweet ;)
But then the road took us, starving (in the literal sense of the word), vivid impressions of tourists on the wrong track, which in Japan leave an unpleasant aftertaste can only have a particularly demanding public.
We went to eat! )))
The exhibits on display another eatery (which, after the level of our domestic food service everywhere I am willing to call restaurants) promised to instantly smooth sweet aftertaste of a visit to the Sapporo Chocolate Factory.
I like chocolate, too away from the factory, we also looked for some details in the next combini where I took a few photos to better convey the essence of these stores. A small minimarket, self-service, what a lot of us in range of products like commodity matrix they drew Robinson Crusoe: the Goods on all occasions.
Gradually, evening was approaching.
And we went to celebrate Friday night in the heart of bustling cauldron of night life in Sapporo.
In Susukino!..