-- "Itterasshai!!" Bus started Hotel Nikko Sapporo - photo from Yahoo! Japan


30 nights 31 days "Bus Tour All Over Japan" started on 19th afternoon, from JR Tower, Hotel Nikko Sapporo, situated in front of Sapporo station. This bus tour, planned by JR Hokkaido, will run southward to Ibusuki Onsen in Kagoshima through the coast line along the Sea of Japan, and then come up north through the Pacific Ocian following Sakura front, and finally reach back Sapporo on 18th April.

10 people have joined this entire tour. Further, 3 people who remain only for former 19 days up to Fukuoka, and another 5 people who are going to participate from latter 16 days from Fukuoka, catching the tour with resort express "Twilight Express" and San-yo Shinkansen. Finally 18 people (5 males and 13 females).

Though most tourists are from Hokkaido itself, 4 people came from Tokyo and 1 from Sendai. Youngest participant is 27 year-old, while eldest is 80; both are women.

Nakagawa Sada (68) , a housewife excited "I have been waiting for the opportunity to travel all over Japan without using plane, for last 30 years. I love traveling alone and this time also I left my husband at home. I am looking forward to see beautiful sceneries from window of the bus."