In mid-January, barely back from our christmas vacation , I was back in Hokkaido again, this time for a three-day neuroscience workshop. It...

We left Kussharo and ambled back with the same train we came. In Kushiro we boarded the JR express to Sapporo, four hours away. The line bet...

Kussharo is a remote rural area in eastern Hokkaido, in the Akan national park. We've come here once before , on our honeymoon, to stay ...

Very delayed, but here's part one of (probably) three posts about our Hokkaido trip. I took three vacation days (oh, the luxury! the dec...

My scanner is back home again, it's working nicely and I've already started scanning the film I took during our trip to Hokkaido in ...

Came back from Hokkaido again last night. I have some deadlines coming up so not much time to post, but in short Hokkaido has lots of snow; ...

I'm off to Hokkaido yet again, next week. This time it's work though; there's a three-day workshop on neuroscience and neurocomp...

We're back from Hokkaido. We came home late last night and only did the most pressing things (like putting away all the salmon, squid, s...

We're in Hokkaido for Christmas, where we're relaxing far away from the stresses of city life. We had a sleep in, had a long walk in...

Sapporo manhole cover with the old clocktower I was in Sapporo in Hokkaido last weekend on a quick work-related trip. It's Japan's f...

Snowed-over field, south of lake Kussharo. On the eastern side of Hokkaido, in the interior, lies three large lakes; lake Akan, Kussharo and...