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Hiking in the Mt.Tarumae

I went hiking in the Mt.Tarumae with my wife and son on Sunday, May 29th,2016.
Do you know Mt. Tarumae? It is located the west-side of Chitose Airport in Hokkaido.

You can see a good view of Lake Shikotsu on the way to the top.
And you will also fell that Hokkaido has a great nature.
It takes less than one hour from the Airport to the entrance of Mt. Tarumae by car.
It is almost no town in the west-side of the Airport except some hotels or shops
in Lake Shikotsu.
Why don’t you check the google map?

If you don’t have enough time to see the nature in Hokkaido,
I suggest that you should go to Mt. Tarumae by car.
There is no public transportation to the entrance.

It takes about one hour from the entrance to the top in popular route.
We used the another route that is not popular.
There are some pictures below.
I hope that you will enjoy a good hiking.

Entrance

viewing the Lake Sikotsu

Sighs, No English

Active volcano

Cycling in Sorachi

I love outdoor sports. Cycling is one of them.
“Spring has come” means for me that I should do the outdoor sports.

I decided to go cycling on Saturday, May 21,2016.
Because according to the weather forecast, it would be a nice day on Sunday.
It really was a very nice day. No clouds at all.
So I had to put the sunblock cream on my face, neck, hands and legs before starting.
This is my bicycle. This type is called ”Randonneur” in Japan. It originally comes from French.
It may be called “touring bike” in English, I am not sure.

Anyway, would you please look at the English site below.

http://www.sorachi.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/ss/srk/cycling_en.htm

I choosed spring active course and went cycling almost same course.
I met three persons riding on the road bike.
This is my first cycling this year.

Here are some pictures.

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Ishikari River

Lake(swamp？）　Miya Jima

Bibai Sation

Field mustard

He was rice planｔing.
Rice paddy

Rice paddy

Why don’t you have a nice cycling in Sorachi !!

What a sudden change !

Spring has just come.
Because I can see the cherry blossoms.
Of course, that’s my opinion.

There are good cherry-blossoms avenue near my house.
I took some pictures on Tuesday, May 2nd.
There were not in full bloom, it looks like 10%.

I made a trip to Manila in Philippines from May 3rd to May 5th that is
a three-days national holiday.

4 days have passed since I took them.
And there were pictures on Friday, May 6th.
The cherry trees were in full blossom.

What a sudden change !!

I was very impressed .
There were great differences between cherry-blossoms on May 2nd and May 6th.

The cherry-blossoms makes me feel good.
We can feel temperature and coldness of wind,
but We can’t see all of them.

How about blossoms? Of course, we can.
Seeing is believing.
So I said again that spring has just come in Sapporo.

Halal Curry and Biryani in Sapporo

I had a halal lunch with my family on Sunday, April 10th.
This was my first time to go there.
The name is DAWAT café Restaurant which is located in Sapporo, Japan.

We ordered four dishes. Lunch time curry was curry with Japanese type of rice.
The chef said to me that if you want a curry with cumin rice or basmati rice ,
please come here at dinner time.

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Chicken curry (regular size) with large size of rice
(￥750）

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Mutton curry(regular size) with large size of rice
(￥950）

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Chicken biryani (regular size)
(￥850）

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Large size of chicken biryani bowl.
(￥1250）

The spices reminded me of my trip to Delhi in India this year.
I have been to India only once.
According to the web site, the owner and chef is an Indian Muslim.

The restaurant has eight seats.
There were seven people, our family(four people), two Japanese man and one foreigner.
Two Japanese man ordered two chicken curry, one foreigner did a large size of biryani.

How about the taste?
Good. but a little bit hot for me.
My older son sweated in his face.
We ordered medium hot, so next time I will do the regular hot.

I sometimes feel heavy in my stomach and thirsty after eating out.
I did not have such a feeling and was not thirsty after lunch.

Biryani is only available on Sunday,Tuesday and Thursday.
And you can buy some halal food there.
Please have a look at the below.

Halal Miso Ramen in Sapporo

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I had a halal miso ramen on Saturday, April 2nd in Sapporo, Japan.
The name of the restaurant is Horyu.
Sapporo is famous for miso ramen.

It tasted good.
It was same as ordinary miso ramen I have had before.
I go out to have a ramen only once or twice a year.
I have a instant noodle at home once or twice a month.
It means that I am not an expert at ramen.

I talked to the chef.
No pork, No alcohol. This ramen was pretty good.
He said that I had a difficult time to make a good soup and taste without them.
But finally he made it.

There are three types of halal miso ramen.
I asked the waiter that which one you recommend?
“Genghis Khan miso ramen” he said.
So I ordered it.

Genghis Khan is lamb meat with special source.
Fried Genghis Khan tasted a little bit strong for me.
I like weaker one.
The soup and noodles tasted good.
I wanted to have all of soup, but I stopped,
because of the health point. I did not want to get too much salt.

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Compared with other countries, Most of Japanese tends to get a lot of salt.
That causes hypertension, as you know.

This is my first blog about Japan in English.

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