With a population of around 2.5 million, Sapporo is just slightly larger than Vancouver. The similarities don't end there, as Sapporo is surrounded my mountains and the lifestyle here is much more relaxed than that of crazy-ass Tokyo.
The only strange thing here is that people aren't as used to foreigners as Tokyo-ites are, and especially foreigners like myself, an Asian who can speak perfect English. Let's just say that with Kurt being blonde and me speaking very bad Japanese with a VERY heavy English accent, we were the subject of many glances and stares.
Hard Off is a chain of stores that sells 2nd hand items. A continuous loop of its jingle can be heard inside. It goes a little something like this, "Hard off! Hard off!!...Hard off!!!!", seriously.
