The trails around Otaru are still buried under snow drifts, so time for plan B: Museum Day.
Otaru (Train) Museum
Otaru had the first railroad on Hokkaido.
One of the many snow plows on display
I wanted to take this home with me
Sapporo Beer Museum
The old Sapporo brewery (now a museum)
There’s something disturbing about a kid with a beer bottle
It took two hostesses to assemble my sampler.
Two hostesses? The Japanese are so gracious! Or, is it they know what a guy likes, having taken the trouble to visit a museum?! They're delightful.