Currently on vacation in Sapporo. I have a few weeks off from my job teaching ESL to Japanese kids. Visited the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art today; http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/doritsu/hokkaido-e.html .
Also saw took in the Sapporo Museum of Photography. Skiing a place called Teine tomorrow;
http://www.sapporo-teine.com/ . And then it`s back south and back to work.
Tried a place called Fujimi Panorama a few weeks ago; http://www.fujimipanorama.com/ . Not exactly a stellar ski resort. That ski day was a gift from an ex-girlfriend. Her family won`t let her date a non-Japanese so we are no more.
It is worth mentioning that I took only local trains to get up to Sapporo. The trip took 48 hours and involved many, many transfers. However, buying a local train pass was by far the cheapest method of getting up here from home in Kofu. For one stretch of the trip I ended up on a one car train with a drunk high school boxing team. We kept to ourselves.
I missed the last connecting train the first night so Japan Rail paid for a cab with a Buddhist monk going to the same place. The monk had to pee every 20 minutes so we had to stop to let him get out and go. I considered joking with the monk that he was capable of levitation but had to stop every twenty minutes to pee.
A train went off the tracks and killed some people the same night I was on my epic journey north.