A busy 3 nights and 4 days without Sapporo Biei!
📅 Travel Itinerary
Day 1: Rent a car - Rest area - Hitsumabushi meal - Check in at Tokyu Rei accommodation - Norbesa (Mandarake and shopping district) - Odori Park - Genghis Khan, beef tongue, yakiniku meal - Convenience store
Day 2: Nijo Market - Breakfast Kaisendon meal - Check out and move to Jozankei - Cafe, ramen lunch, dessert crepe brûlée - Check in at Kuriyasuizan - Explore the neighborhood - Hot spring - Dinner - Hot spring - Lounge alcohol and snacks
Day 3: Hot spring and milk - Breakfast - Check out - Convenience store with a view of Mt. Yotei - Otaru - Sushi lunch - Walk - Move to Richmond Odori and check in - Don Quijote - Charcoal-grilled fish and shellfish Izakaya - Doll grabbing machine
🏨 Accommodation recommendation
Kuriyasuizan⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Serious about food.. Kaiseki and breakfast are so delicious! I booked a room with an outdoor hot spring, but it might be difficult to reserve because there's only one room;; It was nice that I didn't have to go to the public bath, and since it was on the public bath floor, it was nice that we could just use the space where we could get milk in the morning and rest in the passageway, as if we had rented it out!!
Richmond Odori⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The moderate room was remodeled and it was really clean and spacious for a Japanese accommodation, so I went there 3 months later. There's a Don Quijote right in front, 15 steps away? The location is good, and when I asked the staff about parking, they translated it into Korean with a mini translator and told me. There's a check-in and check-out machine, so it's faster if you use the machine. Above all, breakfast! It was the best.. I regret not being able to eat everything from rice bowls, noodles, seafood, curry, and dessert. Breakfast was always salad and coffee, but I ate until I was full hereㅋㅋ Parking was an external collaboration, so I took off one starㅠㅠ
Dokyurei⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The location, friendliness, and parking were all good, but it was a little old, so it was a little... But the space was fine, and it was clean for its age!
There were some group tours, so it was noisy, but I couldn't hear any noise in the hallway!
🍴 Restaurant recommendation
Robadaya Kushiro⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Charcoal grilled izakaya, Imyeonsu grilled was delicious, and I ate all the sea urchin, oysters, clams, etc. deliciously!!
Hormone Pungto Susukino⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - I chose this because I wanted to eat a variety of things little by little because my stomach is small. I reserved a seat without an unlimited or course and ordered a la carte. The beef tongue was the best, and then the crispy hormone? I thought it would be like the makchang, but it was really soft and delicious! Recommended!! I also ate Genghis Khan deliciously, but the two in front of me.. Ah! I ordered the smallest white rice, and the stickiness and sweetness of the rice were really recommended! I arrived before the reservation time, but even if there was a seat, I had to wait at that time to enter, so they didn't accept me even 5 minutes before;;
Donbei ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The sea urchin tuna rice bowl couldn't be bad.. However, it didn't have to be here, and the staff was indifferent, so I lowered the price a little considering the price.
UNAGI TO SAKE Machiya Grilled Eel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - A great place for hitsumabushi! I looked for great places to eat in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Nagoya, and the first place is Nagoya Unagika, and the second place is here. 3 tables? There are also 3 parking spaces, and the side dishes are strong, but the hitsumabushi is really delicious!!
Dining Konno ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - A Jozankei ramen restaurant. The taste was better than a chain and it was good for a meal. However, it seemed like a family-run business with a grandmother, grandfather, and aunt, but the grandmother... was tense;; Wow~ She looked like a fun character from a Ghibli or cartoonㅋㅋㅋ The atmosphere was so emotional and good, like an old restaurant in the countryside of Japan!! (Vote for emotions and grandmotherㅋㅋ)
📌 Useful tips
The flight is cheap in late March - early April, but if you rent a car and go to the outskirts, there will be heavy snow;; I felt the real Sapporoㅋㅋㅋ
It was chaos with snow removal trucks and forklifts being mobilized for traffic control.
It was nice to enjoy the hot springs while looking at the snow, and since it was the season when all the rooms at Jozankei were empty, they were all fully booked!