Ever since my grandmother passed away, my mother has refused to stay home for new years, so for the last few years we've been travelling around Japan for the toshikoshi/年越し/to see the old year out, and my mother thought it would be nice to go to Hokkaido to spend it with my 98 year old great grandma this year. In a way it's nice since the whole family gets together, but since no one in my family bothers to stay up for the countdown, it also seems like any other trip. I guess the only difference would be the food - although we usually don't eat osechi/おせち (Japanese festive food to celebrate the new years - you can read all about it and what each 'dish' symbolises here) we usually get to try the local speciality of wherever we are, which is a nice change.
今年もよろしくお願いします~!
Welcome to Jyozankei~~~!
We were really lucky to be able to see this since it wasn't snowing horribly that night↑
Oh my Japan>< i have to end with this,
i'd say this is worth being on engrish.com!
Your photos are gorgeous! I haven't been to Hokkaido in so long...
ReplyDeleteAnd that sign...! Yikes. I thought the English was a joke but then I read the Japanese and realized it was probably a machine translation or something. I'm always tempted to get out a red pen and just correct things like that!
Thank you>< Hokkaido is where my relatives are and where i spent a few years during high school so it's almost like my second home :)
Delete& i know, i thought so too about the English...my sister wrote them a proper translation and the hotel manager himself came out to thank her!