What is living on the moon in your country?
In Japan, rabbits are.
In tradition, we have a moon-viewing party at the night of the harvest moon around the middle of September to early October.
The usagi-san (dear rabbit) manju is made for the party. They are too cute to bite!
Tsukimi – Wikipedia
Kitchoan Tsukimi sweets (Japanese)
Toya-ko (Toya lake) is famous as G8 Summit was held in 2008.
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The Windsor Hotel Toya is the place of Summit meeting.
I stand at the same posisiton as Japanese ex-prime minister Mr. Fukuda standing.
The Windsor Hotel Toya
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We stayed at Hilton niseko village. It’s very good hotel with hot spa.
Our room was Deluxe Room.
At dinner we had sushi made of the Hokkaido fish and fishry product（uni, ikura and tobiko）.
A chef showed us a fresh squid.
Hilton Niseko Village
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Baked Luckycat named “neko (cat) yaki (bake)”!
I think they were born maybe because Sakura Bakery is in the Gotoku-Temple around. Gotoku-Temple is famous for Luckycat!
Red bean paste, sesame and red bean paste, or chocolate is inside for each cat. Not only the front of the sweet, their back is really cute too!
Sakura Bakery （japanese)
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I enjoyed driving in Hokkaido. (At that time before Japan general election there were Mr.Hatoyama poster.)
sunflower field!!
I saw a fox again. I must take care not to hit it. They suddenly come across the road.
Big bear, salmon and crab model were at the roadside restaulant.
We are familiar with Meiji’s Kinoko no Yama (Chocorooms in US) from childhood,however this is the first one for DIY!
Milk & white chocolate pens, chocolate mold, and the stem crackers in the box.
Melt chocolate, put some of these and a cracker for each place… then wait 30min.!
Some of these are funny different shapes like a star, a soft serve and more.
Handmade Kinoko no Yama – Meiji (Japanese)
This is Mt.Yotei . The top was covered by cloud.
We went to Niseko Milk-kobo. I ate very tasty milk icecream. And there were some hoses here.
Soup curry is oriented in Hokkaido. I tried to eat it home.
This is Jingisukan (Genghis Khan) barbecue. It’s also oriented in Hokkaido (not Mongol). Hokkaiodo people seems to prefer eating a ram. I don’t know why it was named Genghis Khan’s name.
Jingisukan (Wikipedia)
