We hit the streets of Sapporo again...the day looks to stay dry...as we see this and that along the way...
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Heading towards the Sapporo TV Tower, we find the little seafood market...
The first picture below looks like fresh hamburger, but it's bright red colored crab. The other crabs pictured are plastic "stand-ins" showing what's available in the back.
The first picture below looks like fresh hamburger, but it's bright red colored crab. The other crabs pictured are plastic "stand-ins" showing what's available in the back.
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Locals sprucing up the neighborhood...
Now at the Sapporo TV Tower, built 1957, we go up to the third tier for about $7/each.
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Sapporo is a big city of just under 2 million people.
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Ooooh, even zoomed in a bit, the people look like ants, and then back down on the ground, we're the ants!
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"Sapporo Clock Tower is the oldest clock tower in Japan, and the oldest building in Sapporo. The clock after which it is named continues to keep time, and the chimes can be heard every hour. The building is of American design and one of the few surviving older Western-style buildings in Sapporo, a city developed in the 1870s with assistance from the U.S. government. It was built in 1878 as a drill hall, and is all that remains of the former Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University). The building was one of the earliest to be built in Sapporo, as there were previously only indigenous Ainu settlements in the region. Sapporo was chosen as the new administrative center of Hokkaidō in 1868, the officially recognized year celebrated as the 'birth' of the city."
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Gerri in training for the Mount Fuji summit attempt, now just around the corner on the schedule:
 Corn, a healthy snack enjoyed by many a Japanese citizen. We've seen older folks in random places just munching away at it waiting for the bus - is this the real key to why these folks live long healthy lives?? |  |
Participatory sculpture - aye, Tim did not participate...
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Back to the beer gardens - we're at the craft beer concession - many beers to choose from - local and not so local...
...we chose local.
Heading to Germany, er, the Munich Hofbrau beer garden that is. Here we also see Olympic rings - Sapporo had been chosen for the 1940 Winter Olympics, but that was cancelled due to World events - the city is competing for the 2030 edition however.
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We then headed back to the big Sapporo beer garden pavilion in search of a particular brew:
 | Some beer aficionado reports: "Sorachi, unlike many US hops, has no citrusiness, perhaps some earthy flavors, but loads and loads of pine! It reminds me of the Greek “retsina” wine aged in those pine barrels, this beer is very similar. And this unique taste makes it so exciting, interesting to drink." Uh huh....and then we eat our french fries with piney chop styx.  |
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Finishing at an off-venue beer garden, run by Otaru Brewery, along the river park - we'd visit their brewery in Otaru later during our Sapporo visit. We're here just after opening, more people shortly arrived.
Dinner vittles in ramen alley:
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