I booked a day trip to Biei via Klook. The blue pond has been on my bucket list but because it’s so inaccessible (and I don’t drive), I jumped on the opportunity to visit via a day trip organized by Klook. I’m really not a fan of tour groups, but I supposed this can’t be helped.
We started off the day with an amazing complimentary breakfast buffet provided by the hotel. There’s always several different kinds of bread every day, there’s potato salad, hard boiled eggs, etc. There’s also coffee, corn soup, juices etc. Small selection but quality was great!
We then headed to the gathering spot at Sapporo TV Tower, and before we knew it, we are on the bus to Arashiyama zoo. It wasn’t winter season yet, so we don’t get to see the penguin parade, but we could still get pretty upclose to them. The zoo wasn’t huge by any means, but the entire place was on a slope, so while it was easy to walk down, it was a little difficult to walk back up to the complex where we would need to gather to go to the next destination. Will I revisit? No, not likely, unless I had no choice but to follow another day tour again that would include this zoo.
The day tour includes a buffet lunch – which is, well, forgettable. Of course it wasn’t bad by any means, just that there’s nothing amazing enough for me to remember.
Then, it’s the blue pond and the Shirahige waterfall!
One thing I had to mention… although the fall colours are just so amazing, this is the season when the flying insects are migrating. There’s just hordes of flying insects swarming in your face at Shirahige waterfall area – it’s really a terrible experience. I would probably go again at some other season… (even though fall season has the nicest colours).
The bus trip back was long (didn’t even have a toilet break session I think), and the bus was quiet throughout the entire journey. I think everyone was tired and was resting, sleeping, browsing through the beautiful photos taken on their mobile phones. I took a few amazing sunset photos from inside the bus. Really love these. The last pic was so blurred that it looked like an oil painting, no?
We were back in Sapporo, feeling hungry, so we decided to randomly go into a Chinese restaurant Nangokusyuka (原宿南国酒家 札幌店) at Sapporo Stellar Place. Unfortunately this restaurant has been permanently closed as of today’s writing (12/11/2022). This is sad – because their food was really good!
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