July, 2009: Furano, Hokkaido

Everyone who has been to Furano, it seems, rave about Furano on their retun.

It is the large field of blossoming flowers in summer that attracted most of the foreign tourists. For the Japanese, there is another additional attraction of this being the filming location of Kita Kuni Kara (From the North Country, KKK). I remember KKK was showing on Singapore TV many years back. It was dubbed into Chinese, has a male lead with a sad monkey face, a popular soundtrack, but it never achieve the kind of poularity like Oshin.


Having done the SL, and with a full afternoon ahead before the Hamanasu trip back, I decide to go ahead to Furano. That means taking the last train before nightfall to Furano. The brochure for the Furano train shows it cutting right across fileds of Lavendar. So I guessed a local train will give me a view of the lavendar field as long as there is daylight.

Well, obviously, the picture was photoshoped. Or maybe the local train I am on wasn't the ones on the brochure.

There was really many Hong Kong-ers and Taiwanese heading in and out of Furano. Even the brochure at the station is in Chinese.

On the way back, I got to catch a glimpse of the lavendar field up on a slope away from the track. If can be an Ah-Q, the only comforting thing is that it was no in full bloom and doesn't really look good under the overcasde sky of that day.