Day 2, Part 1
(Austin)
As a note: If you are on mobile and you AREN'T currently using Wifi, I would recommend looking at this post later. It contains a TON of pictures and will easily eat a good portion of your monthly data plan. Now, with the disclaimer out of the way, shall we continue?
After waking up Elijah and I got dressed and left the hotel. Before we left the hotel desk gave us vouchers for the free breakfast at McDonald's. The restaurant was right beside the exit of the subway station that we had come out of last night, so it was simple to find it. We got our small biscuits and went upstairs (because almost every McDonald's in Japan is 2 stories) and ate our breakfast. While we were up there I took a picture of the intersection that was brightly lit the night before. The morning sun had melted a good portion of the snow. It was interesting to look at the same scene again in the daytime.
Our hotel was located in Susukino which is one of the sites of the Yuki Matsuri festival. It deals with ice sculptures. Today we were going to go to the Odori site which is the snow sculptures. We decided that we would visit the Susukino site the next day.
After breakfast Elijah and I went back down into the Susukino subway station and met with Ryosuke. We then traveled to the Odori station where the main site for Yuki Matsuri was. After a bit of walking from the station we found the Yuki Matsuri site. Saying there was a lot of snow sculptures seriously doesn't do it justice. Unfortunately, the sun causing a bit of melting the previous day followed by the snow that we encountered the previous night had messed up the fine details of some of the snow sculptures, so keep that in mind when viewing some of the smaller ones.
There isn't much more to say for this post. The day isn't over, the rest will be covered in part 2. Please enjoy the pictures! I only lost feeling in my hands like.. 3 times while taking all of these pictures. Well.. maybe 4 times.
Enjoy!
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