Night train to Aomori, complete with JR yukata

Okonomiyaki

Or, as a guy we met at the top put it, the interesting path.

We took the advanced path down

Finally at the top!

We met a group of germans on the way to the top

The top is in sight

Climbing Mt. Rishiri

Esben the sorcerer

Momoiwa

Momoiwasou is a madhouse

Going to Rebun island

The queue for taking a photo at the northernmost point monument

The biggest attraction in Monbetsu is this crab

Turns out that Spar is not really a danish thingW

Panopticon

Granola sorting at Abashiri prison

He did it!

キツネは何歳になりますか

An outdoor onsen

One of the five lakes of Shiretoko

A bear-proof walkway

Shiretoko misaki

Those four pixels are a brown bear

Going on a boat trip to the top of Shiretoko

The Godzilla rock

This onsen was closed :(

Aidomari onsen

Lake Kussharo

Boiling water straight from the ground

By lake Mashu

Corn for breakfast

After a longish wait at the halfway station, the ropeway started up again, so we could get down the last part of the mountain

The chairlift was suspended, so everyone walked down together

Then a thunderstorm started

Getting cloudy

Kurodake, 1984m

From the other side

View from the top

The beckoning rock

Windows XP

The striped chestnut rat

This is the easy part

We went mountain climbing

Stained glass windows for the church of Totoro

We got the car

Sapporo tv tower

Yes, let's!

Watch your fingers in the train

No sad niggers allowed!

…at the amazing Moerenuma park

A very windy breakfast

Esben beat me at go ¬_¬

The Nikka Yoichi distillery

Old-school KiHa-40 on to Yoichi

Smaller train to Oshamambe

Train to Hakodate

Yeey

Amazing fireworks

Nebuta festival

Waiting for the plane to Aomori

Went for a beer

Tomoko picked us up at the airport

We've arrived in Narita

Dubai airport

I got the window seat!

Last day at work