Although experienced the baptism of the years, but the sincere sentiment has not been wiped out. Life is short and love is eternal. There is a person who can be happy for four years. -- Love Letter

Otaru is a small coastal town on the North Island. In summer, the streets are filled with wind chimes, and in winter, snow falls and snowflakes fill the air. Whenever you come here, you can feel the romance floating in the air and the happiness like first love!

From Fairytale Crossing to the north, Sakai Machitsu is lined with vintage shops, wood carvings, music boxes, whistles, desserts, souvenirs, etc. - this street is no less famous than the Otaru Canal, and it is the most bustling and romantic place in Otaru!

Tip: The ice is slippery and you need to be careful when walking in this area.

📝【 Clocking List 】

✔️ Fairytale Crossing: We come from Minami-Otaru Station. About 10min walk is Fairytale Crossing, the starting point of Sakai-Machi, surrounded by European-style western buildings and decorated with bell towers.

✔️ Music Box Hall: There is a very famous eight music box hall, glass hall, etc., you can buy hand gifts here. The interior decoration is spectacular and dreamy, full of fairy tale colors, and various music boxes are very beautiful. After buying the music box, you can go to the second floor to pick your favorite music yo, it can be debugged. And friends with Taobao bought the same Otaru music box for comparison, the quality is really better than a little. Music box store there are some key chains, kaleidoscopes, jewelry boxes are also very, very beautiful.

✔️ North One whistle hall: Mainly exquisite workmanship, unique style whistle hall (glass handicrafts), dazzling, but remember that many stores do not allow photos.

✔️ Japanese restaurant: Just looking at the display Windows of restaurants along the street makes people salivate, and you can taste sushi. The quality of Otaru sushi is ranked first in Japan and is very popular.

Hokkaido sushi set menus and nigiri sushi can be enjoyed easily at reasonable prices. Other popular dishes include gai rice and SAN sushi using seasonal seafood from Hokkaido, as well as "SAN sushi" consisting of sea urchin, peony shrimp, kitai shellfish, salmon, salmon roe, and shrimp rai abalone.

✔️ Dessert chain stores: The most popular are Beiguolou, Liuhua Ting and LeTao, while the three most popular products are Yue Jingzhi Ring Rolls, ice cream and cheesecake.

✔️ Medicine & Cosmetics stores: Sapporo Medicine & Cosmetics, Tsuruha, and Don Quijote are all located in this area.

✔️ Otaru Canal: The north side of the commercial street is basically near the Otaru Canal. There is no need to introduce it too much. It is quite northern style in the day, and it looks even more dreamlike after the lights are turned on at night.

❤️【 About Food 】

Net red food restaurant prices are quite high, especially Michelin star restaurants, a meal to eat thousands of very easy, in addition, such as government sushi, group to eat and so on are popular shops, be sure to make an appointment in advance!

➡️【 Transportation route 】

If Music Box Hall is your final stop in Otaru, then you can take the train from the nearby Minami Otaru station back to Sapporo, within a 10-minute walk. If the Otaru Canal is the final stop of your tour in Otaru, it is recommended to return to Otaru Station.

📸【 Use of camera 】

If conditions permit, you can take more than a few camera backup batteries to avoid power consumption and acceleration at low temperatures; In addition, it is necessary to pay special attention to the rapid changes in the cold and warm environment may have a certain impact on the camera - when entering the room from the outside, it is recommended to put the camera in the bag for a while, until the camera and lens return to the indoor temperature.

🔝【 Expenses 】

Want to go to Hokkaido in the winter, after the Spring Festival (generally around late February to early March) is a more ideal period, both winter snow and ice season, various costs can save a lot, this behind the plan to go to Hokkaido can be referred to!