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Tales of the road – Arrival to Hokkaido

Hokkaido, the most Northern island of the Japanese archipelago, sounded like adventure and real winter to us. From some parts of Hokkaido you are almost able to touch Russia and the nature and wildlife here is much more connected to Siberia. The ice cold wind brings a lot of snow for almost 6 months in the year.

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The Snow Festivals of Japan

The winters in the north of Japan are long and full of snow. How are people coping with the long and harsh winters? Half way in the season traditional snow festivals pop up all around the north of Japan. And we were lucky enough to encounter a few of them!

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Back on the road!

It hasn’t been an easy decision: but – after a lot of thinking – it was the feeling of curiosity to see more of this beautiful world that triggered us to make the decision: let’s ship our Abi to Japan and start exploring Asia from the east!

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