Part 10 - Hakodate

OOhhhh.....Hakodate is just a seafood heaven!!!! If you ask me what's one word to describe Hakodate it's definitey SEAFOOD!!! ....heheehhe......just wish that we'd a kitchen to cook...and prepare more money too..cos it's not cheap etiher... :)

Hakodate is the largest region in southern Hokkaido. As one of the cities to open to trade like Yokohama and Kobe, Hakodate has some signs of influence especially in architecture. As you all know, Hokkaido is separated from the "main" big island. *Therefore crossing the tunnel was pretty exciting as I've seen quite a lot of documentaries on it but just want to know what it feels. The tunnel is called Seikan Tunnel. With a total length of 53.85km, the Seikan Tunnel is currently the world's longest railway tunnel - although in 2018 the Gotthard Base Tunnel, under construction in Switzerland, will surpass it by about 5km. The Seikan unnel also claims the title of the world's longest undersea tunnel, with a 23.3km secttion under the waters of the Tsugaru Straight.

The JR train which passes the tunnel educates curious travelers like me on diagrams which are found on each seat, and with the accuracy of the departures of each train, the diagram even tells you exactly at what time we are expected to go through the tunnel, and mind you, it's exactly that time!! So lesson to learn when travelling in Japan, the train never waits for people. When it says it leaves at that time, it does!! This is one of the things that we have to educate our passengers on board man!!! If you don't arrive on time, that's it for you buddy!! Errm, well conclusion : of course the tunnel was like any other tunnel :) nothing special but going through one of the "WORLD'S..... longest" always makes a difference lohhh..... :) *Info courtesy from wikipedia

Well i think the video's file is too big again, loaded it twice......couldn't load so again, here are the pics taken in the seafood market!!

Mount Hakodate, 334m offers the Three Best Night views of not merely Japan but the entire world...well according to my schedule, I didn't make it in the night, but the view is equally amazing.... It says that we could take the bus up, but apparently the service is only in the night. So we took the streetcar ( tram equivalent ) and took the ropeway ( cable car ) up.