I am back in Sapporo trying to find my way to Sakhalin.
This is quite young town – designed at the end of 19th century. Wide streets, high buildings and more then 1,8 mln inhabitants. World knew a little about Sapporo before the winter olympic games in 1972. I remember that another Wojciech from my country got a gold medal in jumping during this games.
The most atmospheric place in Sapporo is the old fish market – a little quarter of old houses where they sell more lobsters then fish… The landmark of the city is a old clock tower. Close to the old one is a new one TV tower – like a miniature of Eiffels in Paris…
Still snowing here. In the afternoon I took a train to get to the famous Sapporo brewery for the free tour. All production automated, only 100 people work there. At the end you have allowance of 3 glases to drink in 20 minutes… Thank you!
Back in Sapporo I decided to try local speciality – a meat dish called Jengis Khan. Not bad – in fact the first solid meal since my visit to my Polish friends near Tokyo… Bon apetit!
