Part 1 ~ Hokkaido, Japan (October,2016)

December 06, 2018

Part 1 ~ Hokkaido, Japan (October,2016)

HOKKAIDO, JAPAN ~ Our 6 Days 4 Nights

Day 1 ~

Day 1 - From Johor Bahru (Senai Airport) we departed to Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) on the 21 Oct 2018

With Colleague, we assemble at the KLIA international Airport and will be departure to Chitose International Airport ( Some of the group will be transit to Incheon Airport)

Finally we arrived in Hokkaido, after 2 Hours Travel from Incheon to Chitose Airport

Having our Lunch, and greet by our local representative.

It a Giant Crab - Biggest crab i've ever seen, WOW!

Next place we go to 'THE AINU MUSEUM - Porotokotan'. What Ainu mean? Ainu is originally an Ainu word meaning "human". The Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido with their own culture and language, had lived in Hokkaido, the northern part of Japan's Tohoku Region, southern Sakhalin and Chishima Island before those areas were developed by Japanese and Russian settlers. Several tens of thousands of Ainu still live in Hokkaido and other areas. Let explore the 'Porotokotan village'.

The Statue of Chief

The map of Porotokotan Village

Lake Poroto

The Ainu Museum

The audience

Traditional Ainu folk dance ~ Were designated as one of Japan's important intangible cultural properties in 1984. They feature songs and dances that evoke the natural splendor of the North, including iyomante rimse (a ceremonial dance for sending bear's spirits back to heaven), upopo (a song performed by seated singer), saroruncikap rimse (a crane dance), emus rimse (an epic sword dance), an Ainu musical instrument, mukkuri (mouth harp), and ifunke (a lullaby) which is performed to the accompaniment of mukkuri.