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| Snowing Susukino district where we had a hard time looking for the famous Ramen Alley |
A Sudden Change in Plan
The plan today was for us to visit Otaru and leave shopping in Sapporo on our last day. As we were walking towards the ticketing machines in Sapporo JR Station, we saw Daimaru (a large departmental store in Sapporo JR Station building). Since a friend of ours had asked us to buy some stuff for her,l I suggested to my friend that we check out the departmental store and find where this store is so that we do not have to waste time tomorrow locating the store. As we were searching for that store, we realise we spent a considerable amount of time as Daimaru Departmental Store is very big (with 7 floors of shopping). By the time we found what we were looking for, we realised that half the day is gone. We decided to change in plan and visit Otaru tomorrow instead. We would see if we have time to visit Hokkaido Shrine and Mt Moiwa later in the evening.
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| Shopping mall in Sapporo |
Walking Through the Malls
Since we were at Daimaru, we started from the top of the departmental store at 7th floor and shopped our way down to level 1. We spent considerable amount of time shopping for Black and Blue Label, formerly a series from Burberry which is only found in Japan. After getting our stuffs, we found it rather bulky and headed back to our apartment to leave our shoppings before heading out to shop again (since our apartment is 4 mins walk from Sapporo JR Station). My friend and I went to a few of the nearby shopping malls to shop. As the sky was getting darker, suggested to my friend to head to the famed Ramen Alley in Susukino area.
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| Taking a wefie in the streets of Sapporo |
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| We found a snowman in Odori Park |
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| Taking a picture with the snowman |
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| It is already dark by the time we are done shopping near Sapporo TV Tower |
In Search of Ramen Alley
We took the subway from Odori Station to Susukino Station. It started to snow heavily as we exited Susukino Subway Station. As we did not bring our map out with us (trusting Google Map), we spent some time looking for the Ramen Alley. Google Map led us to a building which it stated as Ramen Alley. However it looks different from the Ramen Alley I saw when I was researching for our Hokkaido trip. Feeling fedup, we decided to forget about Google Map and go around searching. We turned left after exiting the building, hidden between 2 buildings is the Ramen Alley that we were looking for. True to its name, all the shops here sells only Ramen. The ramen shops here are very small with limited seating. We walked along the Ramen Alley, we chose the shop that has empty seats, trusting that all the shops here serves delicious ramen. The ramen broth in the restaurant is delicious and the ramen is very delicious. The serving is very generous and we had a hearty ramen dinner. After dinner, as we exited Ramen Alley to head to Tanuki Koji for more shopping, we realised that Ramen Alley is actually a small alley behind Holiday Inn ANA Sapporo Susukino. We shopped in Tanuki Koji which is nearby Ramen Alley for souvenirs to bring home, as we might not have time to shop tomorrow. As it was getting late, we did not have time for Hokkaido Shrine and Mt Moiwa. We decided to visit Mt Moiwa tomorrow before we head to Otaru.
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