Ken@Japan

You can't take a vacation this time! Golden Week Vacation, usually from April 28-29 to May 6,7 (depends on the calender), is one of Japan's holiday seasons. We have four national holidays within the season so it would be a huge vacation together with weekends. This year, we were off from April 28 to April 30 and from May 3 to May 6, in other words, May 1 and 2 were weekdays in  the middle of  the season. I was planning to go to San Fransisco by taking additional 2-day off on May 1 and 2 which would be 9-day vacation in total to me,,,,supposedly; due to some business reasons, I couldn't take those extra vacations and my trip plan to San Fransisco was cancelled entirely. However, it doesn't mean that I needed to sacrifice the national holidays and I decided to take a short-trip. In search of a place to go, a friend of mine gave me an idea, which was an eye-opener to me; Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan's archipelago. There are mountains/hill...