Explore Hokkaido - Cruising around the city of Sapporo - Day 8

Sayorana Almaz Place, I will be back again if I do return to Sapporo in the near future.

Together with our baggage we continued with our visitation where we will be checking in into another place in Sapporo.

We were never get bored with Sukiya and always enjoyed the delicious food. Here we were for another breakfast.

Sapporo Beer Museum was our first place to visit as we were on our way to our next apartment in Sapporo.

This is the only Japanese museum dedicated to beer which dealt with the long history of beer in Japan as far back in 1876. Don't indicate that you are cycling if you intend to taste the beer in the museum as it is prohibited by their law.

At one of the props for photography. So much beer to get yourself drown in the giant mug.

The queue to dine in the restaurant was pretty long so we opted only for the beer tasting. 

A set of 3 different beers for tasting costing an amount of 800¥. The beer was indeed fresh and soothing, it came with a packet of nuts.

It took us quite a while locating for this apartment nevertheless we found it (Matsubara Building). It is a self managed accommodation without any person to communicate where we get the key to the apartment from a letter box with a code number for the access to the lift. The landmark is Premier Hotel Tsubaki Sapporo which is situated opposite of the road.   

The apartment is decent and sufficiently well equipped for our usage. It is a studio type and the location is not too far away from the centre of Sapporo, known as Sky Apartment. We booked tthrough Booking.com. GPS location : 43.054615, 141.366334

I quite like this apartment with no issue of keeping our bicycles and it is totally serene and quiet.

As for lunch we stumbled into Ramen Takeichi located at GPS : 43.052905, 141.368016 and decided to give it a try after seeing that it was crowded and the ramen had to be good.

The cook was very busy with his preparation and don't seem to be smiling at all.

We ordered two different ramen both were good and delicious. Actually we do not have the slighter idea as what we have actually ordered but most importantly they tasted good in the end.

Ramen 1 with a thicker broth for Jo.

And ramen 2 with clear broth for me.

After the lunch we kept hitting southward and finally we found Nakajima Park.  One of the best city parks in Japan, it is big and historical with streams and a pond. There were boating activity seen at the pond.

The park was vibrant and crowded with weekend visitors enjoying the beauty of the park and it was the start of cherry blossom season. There were couple of food trucks in the park.

At a corner with the most cherry blossom seen.

And a place to eat and drink, indeed a nice place to chill and relax.

Feeling wonderful seeing and getting close to these tulip flowers during our ride to the next place.

At Sosei River side with a sake festival.

Looks like there were a number of sake breweries busy promoting their products and of course there were many potential customers enjoying to taste of the sake.

Rolling through the covered area of Tanukikoji Shopping Street.

Then we saw Nijio Market, a fresh food market with a variety of fresh seafood like salmon, crabs and others. We took a quick look around the area.

Passing by one of the shops at the fringe of the market.

Then a brief peep into a sake making museum located at GPS : 43.059260, 141.364160 called Chitosetsuru Sake Museum.  Welcome to Chitose Tsuru Sake Museum. You can try the water that can be said to be the life of "Chitose Tsuru." Medium hard water suitable for sake making, which is pumped from 150 meters underground. You can feel the cleanliness of the water.

The outside of the museum.

This Lawson is near where we stayed and got ourselves some food for the evening and wouldn't be going out anymore til the next day.

Day 8 was a day we moved over to a new accommodation, spent substantiate time in Sapporo Beer Museum and Nakajima Park with a total distance of 16km covered.