Graubünden （グラウビュンデン）| Sandwich and Cake Shop | Niseko

Niseko （ニセコ） has a lot of recommendable restaurants and cafes. Today I'll show you "Graubünden （グラウビュンデン）", one of my favorite cafes in this area.

I love this atmosphere!! Cute and comfortable, isn't it?

This cafe is famous for its huge and delicious cakes. They use local ingredients for their yummy x 2 cakes, which are not so sweet that we can easily eat them up! Hahaha!
Which cake do you like the best? (I think it is very difficult to choose only one among a lot of kinds!!!)

The cakes can be taken out, but I love to eat them at this cozy cafe. Actually it is customary for me to come here and relax after skiing or snowboarding in the winter time!

They also serve huge and delicious sandwiches.

Surprisingly (or naturally), I usually order their cake and a sandwich at the same time even though both of them are very big........... We can choice the kind of bread for the sandwich!

How about ALT, avocado, lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickles sandwich???

Voila!
We have to open our mouth as wide as we can. Hahaha!

Well, well, well.............. They serve some seasonable sweets, too! How do you like this Halloween cookie? How cute it is!

As this restaurant is near the Nikeko Ski area, I also sometimes take out some cakes and sandwiches. 

Today I took out the Original sandwich （オリジナルサンドイッチ）, which has scrambled egg, tomato, cheese and bacon! Yummy x 2!!!

I also enjoyed the fish and chips!!

Don't forget their cakes!! This time I ordered the Fruit Custard Pie! Love it!!!

■Where is "Graubünden （グラウビュンデン）"?

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Huge Christmas Tree | Sapporo Factory （サッポロファクトリー） | Sapporo

When you come to Sapporo during the Christmas season, I recommend you to go to the Sapporo Factory （サッポロファクトリー）, a shopping mall located in downtown Sapporo↓

Look at the Santa Claus on the chimney!!! The building used to be a beer factory. That's why this mall was named the Sapporo Factory.

At night it is lighted up like this!! Wow! Wow! Wow!!

When you come to the Atrium （アトリウム）, a facility in the mall, during the day time, the Christmas tree is like this, but when you come here at night.................................

Voila!
My guests from Singapore and I were so excited to take pics and pics!!! Hahaha!

Personally, I recommend to take pics from some different angles.

The color is changed regularly! How wonderful it is!!

 We spend here for a while.....................　Very romantic, isn't it???

I love the Sapporo Factory during the Christmas season very much!!!

I also enjoyed ice cream beside the tree as usual! Hahaha!

■Where is the "Sapporo Factory （サッポロファクトリー）"?

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Hakodate Christmas Fantasy （はこだてクリスマスファンタジー）| Hakodate

Christmas Fantasy （クリスマスファンタジー） is a famous Christmas event held in Hakodate （函館） in the southern part of Hokkaido.
A giant fir presented from Halifax City in Canada, a sister city of Hakodate, is transformed into a dazzling illuminated Christmas tree, which throws colorful and bright lights into the sky above the sea near the Kanemori Warehouse area （金森倉庫群）area, which is only a 10 minutes walk from the Hakodate Station.

I love this Christmas decoration here.

At night, the atmosphere of this area dramatically changes like this↓ Beautiful, isn't it???

The lighting ceremony, performed by nominees, is held every day from the 1st of Dec. to 25th of Dec.

When we went there, a newly-wed couple were selected to press the bottom to light up the tree ornaments.

Are you ready???

Voila!

Both the switching on of the tree at 6 PM, and the fireworks displays, are worth watching!!!

The tree is illuminated from 4 to 5:45 PM, and then again from 6 PM to midnight. On Friday and Saturday and the 22nd of Dec. to 24th of Dec., the tree keeps illuminated until 2 AM.

■Where is the Kanemori Wharehous area （金森倉庫群）area?

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Kyomibou （蕎味坊）| Soba Restaurant | Ebetsu/ Sapporo

I love soba noodles. Today I'll show you "Kyomibou （蕎味坊）", one of my favorite soba restaurant located in Ebetsu↓

Autumn is the soba season, when we can enjoy newly-harvested very fragrant noodles!!

Let's enter it!

When I come here, I always order hot and cold soba, because both of them has the different flavors even though the ingredients are the same.

They serve smaller portions. You may order oomori （大盛り） or big portions if you want to eat a lot like me. Hahaha!

This is hot kashiwa tempura soba （かしわ天ぷらそば） whose topping are various from prawns to vegetables!

How about cold soba with tempura （えび天そば）?

Look at the shinny soba, which has distinctive soba aroma!!!

Soba should be swallowed without a lot of chewing in order to enjoy the sensation of soba going down the throat and the scent of buckwheat flour.

Don't forget the yummy x 2 tempura!!

The kuruma prawn （車エビ） is very huge!!!

Last but not least, we enjoyed sobayu （そば湯）, or hot water left in the pot after soba has been boiled.

This soba shop will move from Ebetsu to Sapporo city on the 25th of this month. I should go to the new restaurant!!!

■Where is "Kyomibou （蕎味坊）"?

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