Early Summer at Hokkaido - Furano and Asahikawa

I'm back again!! have been really busy... So here I'm to write about my Hokkaido trip.

When we visit Japan, we need to know which season we going so that we can plan on where to visit. I'm going to note down my itinerary for my early summer to Hokkaido which we went last May.

Early summer is around late Mid May to Mid June, where Hokkaido experience change of season from Spring to Summer. Temperature at day is around 25 deg. Celsius and 15 deg. Celsius at night when we visited. The bad thing of going during this season will be either too late for Sakura or too early for Lavender..

We are lucky to be able to see Sakura, Shibasakura, and tulips where my colleagues missed all of them when he visited 1 week after my trip.. (yes, just 1 week can be very big difference).
I would advice all my friend to check the website for all those season changing date which is quite accurate.

After collected our rental car, we drive up north to Furano to have our lunch. We choose this popular eating place called
Kumagera
Telp: 0167-39-2345
Map Code: 349 032 101*74
Website: http://www.furano.ne.jp/kumagera/en/top.html
Here are the food that we ordered:

Their food is really yummy!! Worth to try if you are in Furano...

After lunch, we drove to Farm Tomita and Shikisai No Oka. The flowers are not in full bloomed and my younger son was asleep, so we didn't go in to take picture.. For those who interested to go, here are their map code:

Farm Tomita - Map Code:349 276 804*00

Shikisai No Oka - Map Code: 349 701 155*36

After the night flight and long drive, everyone was tired, so we drove to our airbnb to rest. 

This house is kind of big and nice if you have big family and wish to stay together. Here are some of the photos that I took.

(If you are renting an airbnb, it's really good to take the picture of the front so that it's easier to find)

2 beds at the front room

A small kitchen for cooking. 

laundry area which we loves coz we can start to wash our clothes..hahaha..

Another 2 beds at the back room.

Hokkaido Early Summer Holiday

We are going to Hokkaido again!! This time round is early summer as we can only go during school holiday. Thai airways was having promotion for Japan and Korea last year, so here we go again for Hokkaido. (I wanted to avoid the summer heat, so only Hokkaido is still cooling during summer).

We bought our ticket at promotional price of $395 for a 2-way ticket to Sapporo. Isn't it cheap?? Now you  know why I go again even thought I just went in December. hahaha... This trip is special because, we brought our little boy with us. It's his first flight trip. (Alot of things to bring...) We are worried that he's cranky in plane. But thank god, he was quite cooperative... *phew*

Look at him enjoying his in-flight entertainment!! lol

Our flight is Thai, so we transit at Bangkok. I like their timing and the best is we do not need to transit again at Tokyo. Our departure from Singapore is 8:50pm and we reached Sapporo in the morning around 8:20am. As for service of Thai Airways, I do not think they service is bad nor fantastic. They seems impatient to me especially when u asked them to repeat on what's on the menu.

After about 12 hours of flight + transit, we are finally at Sapporo!!! Weather is cooling which is what we like...

Once we collected our luggage, we "line" our car rental as usual for them to pick us up.

Our first stop is Furano for our lunch which is about 2 hours drive.