our utter delight they had loads of samples of chocolates, cakes and other such goodies. Let’s just say we made the most of these free samples and in the end we both decided it was time for us to leave before we were asked to!!! Some of the samples were just lush though, it has to be said, and if we weren’t on a round the world trip then we would have definitely been buying some of them.

Also housed within the Sapporo Factory was a photo exhibition of images of in and around Sapporo dating back to early 1900’s. It was fabulous to see how the city used to be and how it grown up and spread out, but still somehow managed to retain some real genuine character. The actual main shopping mall was incredible, it had a mini wind farm and miniature gardens centred around the main square - incredible. It had an amazing glass roof and even a sky walk over to (can you believe) Toys R

Us!!!
We spent a fair while wandering around, all of the restaurants have plastic food displays outside of their doors, so it is pretty amazing just wandering around checking these out. I knew they made plastic ice as we used to use it in photography shoots but its nothing compared to this stuff, they have proper full blown plastic food displays, everything from fried eggs to lobster - incredible!!! It really is great just wandering around and absorbing the cultural differences. Japan is really a special place and we both just loved wandering around as well as checking out museums.

After this we wanted to go on one of the city’s trams, which circles part of the city. It wasn’t really what we expected as it was very full and definitely a working locals tram. We stuck it out though and it was a great way to see different parts of the city, again it managed to trundle its way through snow filled