Henry Will retire and probably die out there.

I was thinking the same thing. But then I had an idea to retire to the Philippines -somewhere like Cebu where I could live well in spacious accommodation at much lower cost and jump on planes for long trips to Japan, HK or East Asia.

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        Millsy limp badders

        Scanned that as limp bladders and thought Dave might be taking part.

          Wasily Sounds like a good plan. Although you can find much cheaper and more ‘spacious’ property outside of Tokyo, if you don’t mind that. Some lovely cities like Sendai and Sapporo would be up on my list. But the missus is wanting to head back to where her family are in Shizuoka.

              Henry have you done shiretoko in hokkaido? There’s a beautiful onsen spa in Kushiro, plan is to fly into closest airport to Shiretoko, road trip and some trails in that area for two days. And drive down to Kushiro.

              Is Sapporo worth visiting? Wondering if we should just fly in there and explore and then drive to Kushiro for the onsen experience.

                  Wasily oooh this is perfect brother, just what im looking for. That eel place looks banging. Thanks for the share.

                    rhouses I was in Abashiri in December, which is fairly close. But snow ruled me getting on to Shiretoko.
                    It’s probably the remotest part of one of the main Islands. Pretty much untouched. You can fly from Tokyo to Memanbetsu really cheap using a JAL Explorer Pass (Google for the JAL) site. You could start your car journey from there and then once Shiretoko has been done head south to Daisetsuzan Park. Then visit and fly back from Sapporo.

                        Wasily I did a work sabbatical a few years ago and spent 3 months travelling around SE Asia with the missus. We spent a month in the Philippines and some of the islands there are amazing. The beach at Boracay is easily the best beach I’ve ever been too. Would love to head back that way one day.

                            I don’t know why people are contributing to this minger of a thread.

                            It’s just AN EXCUSE FOR RHOUSES’ VERBAL DIARRHEA.

                            Ooh look at me, I’m going to Japan.

                            Blah blah blah blah this was fire blah blah blah some shit about food blah blah Uniqlo even better in its home country blah blah I did a turd the size of an orca and these magical Japanese toilets flushed it first go!

                              bosstrabs lol. I’m actually looking forward to his travelogue. An instagram photo story featuring him being cut from one of those overnight sleeper pods using several fire crews and the jaws of life would make my year.

                                  RichM The beach at Boracay is easily the best beach I’ve ever been too

                                  I went there the year they shut it - it was disgusting. Absolutely gutted as was expecting what you’d described.

                                    Millsy I’m actually looking forward to his travelogue

                                    I’m sure his travel log will be of ample size.

                                      bosstrabs
                                      ‘Japanese honeys’ is my banker on the RDogg bingo card

                                        RichM Getting strong wiffs of Dermo 👃

                                          bosstrabs jealousy rearing its ugly head. Was waiting to post in june, but my dad wants the full itinerary in place, hotel bookings and the visa, 3 months in advance.

                                              Henry i might skip shiretoko and save it for another time. Land in sapporo, spend the day there and drive across to kushiro with a one night stop in obihiro. Obhiro worth a visit? Reading that train ride there from sapporo will be quite scenic also.

                                                  rhouses jealousy rearing its ugly head. Was waiting to post in june, but my dad wants the full itinerary in place, hotel bookings and the visa, 3 months in advance.

                                                  The sin here would be ‘envy’ not ‘jealousy’ actually.

                                                  But yours is ‘GLUTTONY’

                                                      bosstrabs ill probably lose weight on this trip with all the walking and no ganj for two weeks.

                                                        rhouses
                                                        Sapporo. Yes
                                                        Obihiro. No
                                                        Kushiro. An even bigger no

                                                        I made the mistake of staying 5 nights in Kushiro. Absolutely nothing there. Lots of crumbling empty buildings that have been abandoned post early 90s. Obihiro. Again very little to see.
                                                        To be honest, the train journey is nothing special. For more scenic routes, you are better sticking to routes to Takayama in Gifu. Or maybe Takamatsu to Kochi on the island of Shikoku.

                                                            Top of my list of places to visit. Had a v cool trip planned in 2020 which got killed by COVID, and haven’t got around to rearranging yet.

                                                            We’d planned to spend a week in Hokkaido. Couple of days in Sapporo, a couple of days at a high end onsen in the mountains in Niseko (e.g. https://www.mokunosho.com/en/), and a couple of days in the East of the island (Shiretoko, Tsurui, Kiritappu, Kitoushi) looking at wildlife.