The trip to Sapporo began this morning at 630 when we woke up to drive from Hakodate to Sapporo. We had a complementary Japanese breakfast and filled with rice, miso fish egg and the like we hoped in our Toyota and hit the road. A few hours into our drive we made it to a place called Lake Toya. We stopped here to walk around it’s shores for a bit. The water was a deep clear blue with a hint of aqua. It was beautiful and you could see mooring lines go down to some depth from the buoys dotting the shore. There were a few large islands in the lake and we found later that re squirrels and deer inhabit them. The lake was large and round and it was surrounded by dense deciduous forest.
      
     After our lake stroll we drove to a large nearby crater with smoke pilfering from cracks in it’s surface. We took a condola up the mountain slope to see the crater and also got a amazing view of the entirety of lake Toya below. The visit to the crater and lake was a pleasant detour and afterwords we got in our rental car to finish the journey to Sapporo. It only took us about an hour because our driving was rather speedy. Once we hit the large we could see larger buildings and big avenues. Our hotel was right in the center of town and we were able to check in and bring our luggage to our room. From our window we could see a nightly summer beer festival taking place below in the center city park and decided to give it a look. We got our 750 ml beers and enjoyed some various hot appetizers while we people watched and enjoyed the temperate climate. That night Blake and I decided to get Yukatas, traditional Japanese robe like clothing, because I had yet to have my own and Blake wanted one too. We were able to find inexpensive ones at the local discount shop and decided to wear them the rest of the night because it seemed like a great idea. 

We spent the rest of our night with our Yukatas and getting funny comments on our dress throughout the night and enjoying the center of Tokyo. We got to sleep around 1 to get sleep before our last day in Hokkaido.