Day 5 : Day out in Kushiro

This morning, we took local bus to one of the national park to look at their marshland. As we were unsure on where to take the bus, we went to the train station tourist information counter to get more details. They were helpful in giving us the bus no and bus timing. This time round, we did not miss the bus as we were pretty early today.

Reached Kushiro Shitsugen National Park and found that it was so quiet. Perhaps due to it was winter time, not many people will take the trail to watch the marshland. We still proceed with it and took about 20mins to reach the observatory station. While on our way in, we saw sign giving warning that brown bears are sighted so have to take caution. However, we still proceed with it but I did try to look around for suspicion movement among the trees. Luckily the way in was quite bright and you could see all view clearly.

We took some photos there and since it was not so cold and no people there, we had time to pose here and there. Hee hee... Noticed it was already 12noon and we quickly walked back to the bus stop. If we missed this bus, we had to wait till 3pm. Luckily, the bus came just after we reached the bus stop. Instead of moving to another observatory station, we decided to go to Aeon shopping mall. Took the bus from the terminal and we shopped there for about 4 hours.

Lunch today was KFC since we seldom had chance to eat local KFC so we decided to try. Bought some stationeries and chopsticks/spoons as they are nice. We tried to catch some toys from the UFO catcher but in vain. Spent 1000yen but could not get anything. Nevermind, this was a training for us. Will try again...

Since we were back early, we decided to eat the complimentary dinner in the hotel. Tonight they were serving meatball curry rice. Yesterday's was pork curry rice. Yummy yummy. In total, we saved 3 meals as we ate the complimentary dinner from the hotel. Also saved some $$$ by registering as a member of Toyoko Inn. Sunday's room rate has 30% off and Monday has 20% off for a fee of 1500yen. Worth it. :)

We are travelling back to Sapporo tomorrow. Hope tomorrow's weather here and there will be good so that walking will be easy.

Bye for now.

Photos:

- Scenic view at the park.
- Huge marshland covered with snow.
- Park with nobody except us.
- Took more photos here as there were no one to block our view.
- A & G ~ Adeline & Gillian 在此一游.
- Our KFC lunch at Aeon Mall.