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January 6. Instagram Hakodate morning market is most likely much more lively during the tourist summer season, which is one of the benefits of traveling in the off season, no crowds to be found anywhere. Even though it was clearly quieter than normal, almost every stall and station was open selling fresh caught seafood, including king crab everywhere. I also stopped in a morning ramen shop for some more soy ramen and the food Hakodate is most well known for: Squid! Terje Kammar Med Krabbar Ja! Hakodate Morning Market. Breakfast Ramen at Ajino Ichiban, Hakodate. Hindsight being 50/50, if I were to do this trip again, I think I'd fly up to Sapporo immediately and just try to hang on with 24+ hours without sleep, and then slowly cascade down to Tokyo with those stops in Hakodate and Sendai. It would realistically save about 8 hours of travel time, at the cost of around $75-100. Time being money, that's really not an awful deal. I didn't realize that I could g...

Anime is a thing I keep going back and forth with throughout the years. My sister was obsessed with Sailor Moon, but me being a young dumb boy in Middle School, I hated it. I hate the Japanese cartoons with the mouths that don't move right for what they're saying, and before I even finished this sentence I could hear Heidi saying to me, "but it's not a cartoon Joey, it's ~Anime~." I remember Heidi rushing home after school to catch Sailor Moon on Toonami around 4pm, luckily I didn't have to watch it with her every day, as I'd play sports or whatever with my friends, but rainy days meant watching Sailor Moon with Heidi... It was awful. (1999) Until this show came on after Sailor Moon, it was called