Natchan Rera is a 112 metre Wave Piercing Catamaran linking Hakodate to Aomori. I recommend first class tickets on the upper deck or economoy tickets on the lower one. Business class tickets will bring you at the back of the boat in a dull looking cabin and without side windows.
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One would think that having to deal with so many different characters would have lead to the replacement of chinese characters (kanji) by something a bit more practical to deal with.
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The Sapporo Beer Museum (サッポロビール博物館) is a museum located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Registered as one of the Hokkaidō Heritage sites in 2004, the museum is the only beer museum in Japan. The red-brick building was erected originally as a factory of the Sapporo Sugar Company in 1890, and later opened as a museum in July 1987. The building also houses the Sapporo Beer Garden in the south wing.
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Marimokkori (まりもっこり) is a character popularized in Hokkaidō, Japan. Much like the Tamagochi, Marimokkori’s name is a bit of word-play, as marimo is the word for the green algae clusters that grow in some of Hokkaidō’s lakes and "mokkori" is a Japanese slang term for… well I let you guess ;-) wikipedia
