April 19th

As I said last time, my home town is Sapporo City in Hokkaido.
When I say that I am from Hokkaido, almost every people look at me with curiosity.
Then, they always give me a few words such as Wow! or I really envy you and I want to go to Hokkaido as the sightseeing, then eat good fish food!
If I weren’t from Hokkaido, I would say as well.
Actually, it is famous of fresh fishes, vast nature, the coldest area in Japan and snow festival in February.
On the other hand, Sapporo is the big city. This is the picture of Sapporo Station which is the center part of area in Sapporo City.
Thanks to these reasons, nowadays, it is really popular sightseeing spot for not only Japanese but also many foreign people.



At first, Hokkaido is located in the northern part of Japan.
It is surrounded with the Ohotuku sea, the Japan sea and the Pacific Ocean so that it is inconvenienced location.
However, recent a few decades, public transportation such as air plane and an undersea tunnel were greatly developed, so it is a little bit easy to go there now. Besides, the Shinkansen will be opened to traffic in 2020.
I hope it is complicated soon and I am really looking forward to use it! Now, I sometimes go back to my home town, but not so many times because the airplane is so expensive for me.
Last year, I only go back there twice a year.
The cost of Shinkansen is cheaper than that of airplane, so I believe the complication of Snikansn will bring me more chances to go back to my home town.