Best Western Hotel SAPPORO NAKAJIMA KOEN （ベストウェスタンホテル 札幌中島公園）| Budget Hotel | Sapporo

There are a lot of budget hotels in Sapporo. If you want to stay near Susukino, but don't like city noise, how about "Best Western Hotel Sapporo Nakajima Koen （ベストウェスタンホテル　札幌中島公園）", located between Susukino and Nakajima park?

Let's enter it!

 My tour guests and I love this balloon snowmen at the entrance!

It has LAWSON on the 1st floor so that we can easily go shopping even at night!

How about this cafe bar on the 1st floor? We have a party at night, too!

I love this service. We can choose our favorite aroma for shampoo and body soap!

Voila!
This is a specious room! Look at the desk in front of the window!

The desk is big enough to use a computer! As it is not faced to the wall, we can easily have an enjoyable conversation while taking a saet.

The "Plasmacluster", which actually I also use at home, thoroughly cleans the air in the room. Perfect!

The bathroom is not bad, right?

They serve a wide variety of dishes for breakfast. Some of the ingredients are produced in Hokkaido, and we can enjoy tasty local food here!

Freshly-cooked dishes come from this open kitchen one after another!

Look at the special eggs, which are rich in nutrition! We, Japanese, eat natto with raw egg! Yummy x 2!!

We've found the unique soy sauce! This one contains blueberry extract! Interesting, isn't it?

 Salted cod row is one of the popular toppings for rice in Hokkaido!

Look very healthy, don't they? They serve some kinds of grilled fish!

 Our staple food is rice and they serve two kinds; "Nanatsuboshi", a brand rice in Hokkaido, and

rice porridge. Please put your favorite toppings including Hokkaido delicious salmon on the porridge!

Do you prefer bread to rice for breakfast?
Don't worry about it!

Hokkaido is famous for its delicious dairy products including yogurt!

The vegetables are also delicious in Hokkaido! Actually one of the main industries in Hokkaido is agriculture! The soil is very fertile here!

Dressing is selectable, and this is my favorite, grapefruit one! Sounds appetizing, doesn't it?

Hokkaido reminds some of you of delicious potatoes!

See! We can enjoy a variety of dishes for breakfast!

This miso-flavored pork was so delicious that I had seconds! Hahaha!

Some kinds of soup, pasta,

and fried vegetables..........

This is my breakfast!

Considering the quality of its rooms and breakfast, and its location, "Best Western Hotel SAPPORO NAKAJIMA KOEN （ベストウェスタンホテル　札幌中島公園）" is one of the recommendable hotels in Sapporo!!

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Himezakura （馬肉料理 和牛もつ鍋 姫桜）| Restaurant of Horse Dishes and Motsunabe (Beef Guts Pot) | Sapporo

Horse meat is very healthy, high in protein, and low in calories.  If you want to eat delicious horse meat, I recommend "Himezakura （馬肉料理　和牛もつ鍋　姫桜）" in Susukino, Sapporo.

They serve a lot of kinds of sake & Shochu or distilled alcohol, which really go well with horse dishes.

Cheers!

While eating the appetizer, we were so excited about looking at the menu! What should we order?

■Horse sashimi
We ordered three kinds of horse sasimi; horse loin, neck, and rib! Each part has different taste and texture! I like neck the best, which contains a lot of glycogen! Yummy x 2!!

Two kinds of condiment; ginger and garlic, and two kind of sauce; special soy sauce and miso sauce, are served for the sashimi. Depending on the part, we enjoyed the different combination for it!

■Grilled horse tongue
It's more tender and juicy than beef tongue. Would you like to try it? Hahaha!

■Beef guts pot
As it is still cold in Hokkaido, we wanted to eat something hot, and ordered this beef guts pot! Soup can be selected among four flavors; miso, salt, soy sauce, and tomato, and we chose salt soup! It contains a lot of collagen, which makes us, we believe, more beautiful!!!!! The wagyu beef was so delicious that we were very happy!

After eating up beef guts and vegetables, we usually put rice into the broth to make rice porridge!

Rice absorbs the delicious broth and it is very delicious!!!!

■Horse sushi
We ordered five kinds; fillet, loin, rib, leg, and yukke horse meat. I love the yukke the best, which is like beef liver sashimi, but less meaty. Perfect, isn't it?

We really enjoyed horse dishes and wagyu beef guts pot today!

■Where is "Himezakura （馬肉料理　和牛もつ鍋　姫桜）"?

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Futomi Meisen （ふとみ銘泉）| Hot Spring | Toubetsu

"Futomi Meisen （ふとみ銘泉）" is in Tobetsu, 30 minutes away from Sapporo, providing us high-quality moor hot spring, which is slightly alkaline and makes our skin very smooth!

The fee including towels and a loungwear is 1,310 yen, a little bit expensive, but I'll show you how to get a discount ticket first!

Please go to "FIKA", a tourist center,  in Ishikari Futomi Station↓

This center has a lot of local products, food, and art works related to this agricultural town, such as ROYCE' chocolate, potteries made by local artists, and tomato juice.

When you come here, you can get this 800-yen coupon! This is very reasonable!

With the ticket, let's go to "Futomi Meisen （ふとみ銘泉）"!

It is a very popular hot spring for the local citizens! The fee includes towels and yukata (cotton kimono) or a loungwear. Amenities like shampoo, conditioner, lotion, milk are also available here.

After taking hot spring, we can take a rest in this area, which has reclining chairs, chairs with a personal TV set like the one on the airplanes, and so on. I really recommend a room for women only so that we can fully relax!

Their hot spring is on the 4th floor, and we can enjoy the beautiful country view from the outdoor hot spring area! Sounds wonderful!

They have indoor hot spring area, which has a sauna room, too, but this outdoor hot spring is most recommendable!

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles!!

The water is from peat and organic layers, containing a lot of plant-derived minerals such as sodium hydrogen carbonate.

This slightly alkaline natural hot spring is good for our health, making our skin very smooth!!

■Where is "Futomi Meisen （ふとみ銘泉）"?

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Suzuki Kamaboko Ten （鈴木かまぼこ店）｜Kamaboko (Deep-Fried Fish Paste) Specialty Shop | Rumoi

Rumoi is a wonderful coastal town! Do you like kamaboko, or deep-fried fish paste? Is so, why don't you drop by "Suzuki Kamaboko Ten （鈴木かまごこ店）" when you come to this area?

This is a 50-year-old Kamaboko Specialty store, using only fresh fish caught off this area. The secret recipe is not only the selected delicious seafood, but their stone mills to make fish paste! The stone is kept the ingredients cool while it is ground. I see.............

They will deep-fry fish paste after getting orders! Sounds perfect! Hot! Hot! Hot!

They serve ten kinds of kamaboko;  kamaboko with octopus, hot spice, leeks & gingers, shrimps, onions, hijiki seaweed, corn, vegetables, green soy beans, and plain ones.

Of course I've got all of ｔhe kinds! Hahaha!

"Jyaran (じゃらん）", a famous travel magazine features this shop, too!

 Hot! Hot! Hot! On the way back home, I ate some of them............

They are supposed to be presents for my family members.......... But you know, their kamaboko looked so delicious that I couldn't stand not to eat it................. Hahaha!
(I have to get something else for them......)

■Where is "Suzuki Kamaboko Ten （鈴木かまぼこ店）"?

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