Day 34: Returning from Sapporo

Tuna-mayo bread from the convenience store and the other soda (melon flavored) from Daiso for breakfast:

Also Onigiri #22 (this one had beef in it):

I also got a convenience store taiyaki because I'd been wanting to try it but hadn't found any taiyaki shops yet. Taiyaki is a cream filled waffley fish. The fish is a Tai (sea bream) which is where the name comes from.

After breakfast, I went to the station with Rett and Qingya to go shopping for a little bit before heading back to Hakodate.

We went to UniQlo first (which I've heard described as a Japanese GAP). I liked the hats on these mannequins.

I finally got some shirts!

We went to a few other stores too. These dangling jean legs were one of the highlights:

As well as the English on this makeup:

Smoking is still pretty common in Japan. Most restaurants/parks/airports/etc. have smoking sections, and there are signs all over telling you where you can and cannot smoke. I couldn't figure out what these were at first. They are colorful portable ashtrays:

Walking through a small section of one of the electronic sections on one floor of one building. I just can't get over how crazy the shopping centers are here:

A salty lychee drink:

Also, actual taiyaki from a taiyaki booth below the station. This one is peach flavored. It was fresh, warm, and way better than the one from FamilyMart.

Onigiri #23 and #24 (chicken-mayo and tuna):

Scenery on the bus ride back:

The area actually reminds me a lot of the Pacific Northwest, just with a few different species of plants.

Someone informed me that it was Natto Day, so I got some natto for the bus ride. Also combini cream puffs.

Farmland:

Creepy tower in the foggy distance:

Lemony, limy drink with lots of vitamin C:

More farmland and scenery:

Natto:

Scenery:

Really yummy umeboshi (pickled plum) caramels. At first, they were a little too sour, but these things are like the gateway drug of umeboshi candy. I love almost anything umeboshi flavored now.

Dinner (at my host dad's parent's house):

(Note: I listened to music for about half of the bus ride back and for weeks after this was kind of obsessed with the (two, very different) songs きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ - にんじゃりばんばん ("Ninja Re Bang Bang"  by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu) and "Could Have Been" Me by The Struts.)