{"id":17890,"date":"2024-06-19T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/auto-draft\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T04:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T08:41:55","slug":"reaching-our-ferry-for-the-island-of-hokkaido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/cycling-travels\/cycling-asia\/south-korea-japan-2024\/reaching-our-ferry-for-the-island-of-hokkaido\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching our ferry for the island of Hokkaido"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This cycling segment was focused on reaching the port town of Maizuru where we are scheduled to take a 11:50pm ferry along the western coast of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido. Although we had heard many nice things about Hokkaido, we were very anxious about our journey north. First and foremost, when we tried to find some hotel accommodation spanning a weekend in Sapporo – Hokkaido’s largest city – we could not find anything. We had to resort staying in our ferry arrival town – less than ideal. It seemed many of the (affordable) hotel chain accommodations we have relied upon up-to-now during our travel in Japan, showed up as sold out during the weekend prime period.<\/p>\n\n\n