Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: ken_nicolson@hotmail.com (Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Driving in Hokkaido Date: 22 Mar 2004 20:09:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 39 Message-ID: <6afefaef.0403222009.79e33f93@posting.google.com> References: <6afefaef.0403212142.792a4b9b@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.228.229.73 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1080014982 15649 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2004 04:09:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:12826 "Hibijibi" wrote in message news:... > "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" wrote... > > Second, what are driving times like? She found a web page that seemed > > to use 50 kph as the basic speed for all the time calculations. Are > > the roads really that bad/windy/full of traffic lights, or was this > > based on everything being under a metre of snow? We're planning on > > going to Hakodate, Niseko, Otaru, and, umm, some mountain place that I > > can't remember but the middle kanji is RYOU/yoi. > > You're going to Furano (富良野) I believe. That's the filly! > We drove there from Sapporo in > about 2 hours in some sort of gerbil-propelled Suzuki rental "car". Even so > I was able to maintain a speed of 120kph for most of the drive. Good - we're doing some fly-drive tour, and since there's four of us, we get a free upgrade to HC grade - one rank over a Corrola - so hopefully there's souped-up gerbils under the hood. We bought another book at the weekend - FURURU Hokkaido - and I'll check what that says about driving times. The page I mentioned before said Niseko to Furano was five and a half hours... > Getting > there was a lot like driving through Indiana, frankly (a great pleasure > after driving around Tokyoland). Two weekends ago it took me 1.5 hours each way from Takarazuka to Kobe Harbourland - about 40 km, or 45 minutes on the train... > best Ta for the info everyone. Like most facts one hears from Japanese people, I needed to double-check the accuracy. > hibijibi Ken