[Hokkaido] Day trip to Otaru + Susukino Ice World 2020
An easy day trip to another beautiful location from Hokkaido's capital city of Sapporo is Otaru. It is a port city with beautifully quaint streets and views of the Otaru Canal. Otaru is nice enough to spend a day, and we covered most of the highlights within a day. Prior to our departure, Baby and I purchased the 7-Day Hokkaido Shinkansen Rail passes from Changi Recommends, as there was a discounted rate for the passes. The two passes cost us around SGD570 after the discount. The pass covered the entire Hokkaido Prefecture. With the passes, we were allowed to travel on an unlimited number of rides to all areas on all the Hokkaido JR train service lines. These included all 'Special Rapid Train' services too! After having brekkie, we headed down to Sapporo JR Station to exchange our JR passes for the actual train passes. The travelling time from Sapporo to Otaru took us only 40 minutes. Yay to the famous Otaru Canal! Back in the heyd...