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title: Hokkaido
url: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/places/hokkaido/
lang: en
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# Hokkaido

Travel journal from Hokkaido, with 8 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Nabeyaki udon, Fried chika, Soda Shokudo, Kani Goten.

## Journeys

- [Below freezing outside, a fireplace within](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/hokkaido/index.md): Life in Hokkaido（2023-02-26）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Nabeyaki udon](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/nabeyaki-udon/index.md): A tribute to the nabeyaki udon in Studio Ghibli's 1995 film "Whisper of the Heart" (directed by Yoshifumi Kondo), which the owner of the antique shop Chikyuya serves to the heroine Shizuku in front of…
- [Fried chika](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/fried-chika/index.md): Chika is a sea-dwelling smelt of the same genus as wakasagi, common along the Hokkaido coast.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Zangi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/zangi/index.md): Fried chicken eaten all over Hokkaido.
- [Wakasagi and ice fishing](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/wakasagi-and-ice-fishing/index.md): Wakasagi is a smelt about 10 centimeters long; in Hokkaido it is also called chika locally.
- [Hokkaido dialect](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hokkaido-dialect/index.md): Three Hokkaido words from this episode's narration: namara means "very"; shibareru means freezing cold; and shitakke means "well then" or "so," and also serves as a casual goodbye.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Soda Shokudo](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/soda-shokudo/index.md): A neighborhood diner in the town of Noboribetsu.
- [Kani Goten](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kani-goten/index.md): A red building on Route 36 with a bear and a salmon on its roof, housing a seafood restaurant and a seafood shop.
- [Noboribetsu Rakunokan (dairy)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/noboribetsu-rakunokan/index.md): A dairy that made milk products from Noboribetsu milk, with its factory and shop in a closed school building; a banner from the school's days still hung over the entrance.