yeah~ and so after a night at ueno, we made our way down to hakodate. it was another 6h of travelling, 3h by shinkansen and 3h by tokkyu (limited express), the scenery got much better along the way as mountain ranges started appearing! and it's my first time travelling so relaxingly, as if i'm a japanese. well and cos we reserved our shinkansen seats separately, we had different seats! and i sat beside a young obasan and her grand daughter. the obasan's really polite to me and i smiled at her when i sat down. then we started chatting a little and she asked me where i came from. and i told her her grand daughter is cute. she's really very obedient i think. and i like listening to her talking to her grand daughter. she will say things like it's cold, you should put on ur jacket. and when her grand daughter could not finish her bentou lunch she would say 頑張って食べてください！ so cute right! and she alighted at the stop be4 me! and she asked her grand daughter to bid me farewell, おにちゃんにさよならい。so cute right! and she was bringing her grand daughter to her sis house to play. so i told her, お楽しみください。 and she said 気をつけて。and i really like the way the grandmother slowed down when talking to me and allowing me to understand better. and so i shared with her my hokkaido plans and she said yeah it's a really good time now cos it's summer! and i told her it's really pretty when there are so many flowers blooming. we had a really nice convo!

our first 2 bento set of the day! and our comfy hakodate room! and interesting thing of the day! the train chairs can be rotated 360 deg!

ok, and so when we finally reached hakodate, we rushed to get up the hakodate mountain. this place is basically quite a dead town but i like the tranquility that u cant get elsewhere. tanoshii! ok, the view on mount hakodate was really amazing, pretty and we had nice japanese helping us take fotos again. the night view was pretty too when all the lights are lit up. 

at mount hakodate! pretty isn't it!

and after this pretty view, we went to have dinner and bought sake from this wine shop. and we started chatting with the receptionist cos they asked where we were from again. and she said our jap is すばらしい (wonderful). they asked us how is hakodate as well. haha wa, i like talking to the locals i think but it's a bit stressful when they start making really long sentences and speed up. haha! yeah~ so it'll be to sapporo tmr! oh yeah and i shall have my 1st sake tonight!

the gorgeous night view!