Hokkaido! Day 5

Day 5 (The Long-ass Haul, OMFG)

So to get home, I had to leave the hotel at 6am T-T. Unfortunately, this also meant I didn’t wake up early enough to get my ass in the onsen one more time. *sigh* I feel like I wasted my reservation at the onsen… and that was some money down the drain… oh well, learn from experience? I gotta say, with all the fuck-ups that happened during this trip, I am still glad it happened this way. I felt like I gained a lot of experience, and just became a smidjet more independent. First vacation alone, that’s a big step, right?

Anyways, so the last day was all about getting back to Morioka. In short, my schedule looked like this:
Noboribetsu à Oshamambe (6:57 - 8:52)
Waited for 2 hours. No, I’m not kidding. I woke up butt fuckin early to wait in a town that has nothing. *sigh* I tried to do something, so I walked to the beach, and wow… it was soo freakin ugly! So I stood there, next to the beach, and ate my onigiri. HUZZAH!

Oshamambe --> Hakodate (10:43 - 13:25)
I was able to BS here a little. Walked around the fisherman’s market, bought some more things at the souvenir shop (need…to stop…. SHOPPING!!!!). Something weird happened at the station though; I was in the souvenir shop, and outside I heard this load moaning/screaming. I thought someone was kicked or being abused, so I kinda hustled out of there. Instead of what I assumed, I found an older woman and a middle age man in front of the vending machine. The man is mentally handicapped, and something happened while picking his drink and he started to throw a fit. It was really distracting. The area was full of people, but just with this publicly embarrassing sight, everyone cleared the hell out of the way.

Hakodate --> Kikonai( 14:44- 15:50)
Kikonai --> Kanita ( 16:19 - 17:09)
OMFG…… So since I am using my train pass, it counts towards unreserved seats. Well, this is the first time I EVER had to stand the entire trip!! It sucked so hard.. I wasn’t alone, everyone who was at the Kikonai train platform was standing with me. Sooo glad that’s over with.

Kanita --> Aomori (17:30 - 18:11)
Aomori --> Hachinohe (18:51 - 20:21)
Hachinohe --> Morioka (20:46 - 22:22)

I DON’T WANT TO TRAVEL LIKE THAT EVERY AGAIN!!!!! Well, at least not alone. Really though, I feel like my butt is bruised from today, what the hell. I didn’t hate it too much because other than riding my bike, this is the transportation I have available to me. I’m starting to warm up to the idea of a car, but god that’s too much money to put down. I really need to be saving more.

On that note, what the hell should I do for the rest of my summer break? All I know is that there is a cake tabehoudai and a boat-fire festival on the 16th, but that’s it. Furthermore what should I do for my September vacation?! I gotta start planning… haruumm……


If you got this far, congratulations! I’m soo proud of you!! X3