GPGT/AMA/LIVE Update - Hokkaido 10-16 January 2018

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Seems like I visited on a good day.

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Take the cable-car to the summit!

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View inside the cable-car.

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Reached liao!

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The cable car station at the summit consists of 3 levels, and includes a cafe as well as a restaurant.

Didn't buy anything but very tempted by the pretzels at cafe.

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You can venture outside the building to take pictures, but many people are shuttling in and out because of how cold it is.
 

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I googled the mountain, rike quite short. 500+ m
 

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More views at the summit. Spammed pictures like siao.

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The Lovers' Sanctuary observatory. Hais, any takers?

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My pictures do it zilch justice.

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It's supposedly more enchanting at night, with the city lights' illumination. Unfortunately, I had plans in the evening and settled for second-best, sunset.
 
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Off to get dinner. 2030 here and shops don't open late. Will continue once I've gotten a table.
 

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More on the summit of Mt. Moiwa. When I first reached Sapporo I thought it was cold. Then Otaru on a snowy day showed me what intense cold is. Today, Mt. Moiwa laughed at both of them.

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Bought a can of hot chocolate to warm my fingers.

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First time snow depth almost above my boots. Didn't dare to anyhow tread arbo later socks GG. Am also wearing jeans (the only pair I brought) and it gets really cold when wet.

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There's a trekking path that goes down. I wanted to take it but didn't because:

1. It's quite steep.
2. I'm alone, later fall and die bo lang help. Also, bears are in the area (tiagong one).

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Some altar/shrine thingy? Spotted a Guan Yin statue at the side but didn't take a photo. Scared later disrespect or what.

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More on the summit of Mt. Moiwa. When I first reached Sapporo I thought it was cold. Then Otaru on a snowy day showed me what intense cold is. Today, Mt. Moiwa laughed at both of them.

If wait until at night. Maybe even colder!
 

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https://www.google.com.sg/maps/@43....-k-no-pi0-ya343.2886-ro-0-fo100!7i8408!8i4204

There is a goddess at the summit of Mt.
Formally the Pure Land Buddhist Temple of Kaoga Temple Kannon Okuininin. Meiji 34 (1901), the second priest of Shinkoji Temple settled thirty-three guanyin on Mt. Kannon-do at the foot of the mountain, one stone pillar at the summit. Ishido moved to the vicinity of the top afterwards. In 1973 (1973), rebuilt Ishido as a hexagon temple. In 1992, in the year of the commemoration of the Yamaguchi Great Festival 108 times, Falling as a full-scale architecture. The stone statue in the old stone pillar is located next to the temple as a brushwork.

http://www.city.sapporo.jp/minami/gaiyo/meisho/0503115.html

Some altar/shrine thingy? Spotted a Guan Yin statue at the side but didn't take a photo. Scared later disrespect or what.

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Doing a livestream on Instagram now if anyone's interested.

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