After crossing most of Lake Shikotsu by boat, Miyashiro and Iwami Mai traveled to Chitose City, a little further north, where they did not stop but turned westward through Sapporo, the administrative center of the Kaido, to Otaru, a small town close to the R Hokai, which is considered to be the outer port of Sapporo.

This is the turnaround point for Miyayo and his entourage, so after going around in a counterclockwise circle, they will walk from Otaru in the direction of Hakodate and then back to Honshu.

In terms of distance and area, they were only a circle in the southernmost corner of Hokkaido, and the cities further north were not considered by Miyadai Soko...... However, most of the overall impression of Hokkaido is also due to these regions and cities in the south.

In the early part of the last century, it was a thriving city, and Otaru was once the "center" of Hokkaido, but it has since moved to Sapporo, which is more inland and more central.

Therefore, even judging only from the age of development, it can be imagined that the city is destined to have a strong Asian-European mixed style, whether it is the impact of foreign culture or the resistance of traditional culture, and the final formation is this kind of exotic and particularly enchanting mixed-race.

"This canal is probably the symbol of Otaru, and the most prosperous economic period here was from the end of the Taisho period to the first ten years of the Showa era. In order to accommodate inland waterway navigation and irrigation, the canal was built in a rather unique way of reclamation. ”

Unfortunately, shortly after the canal was completed, Hokkaido's economic center shifted to Sapporo, which means it ended its mission prematurely. Later, in order to solve the traffic problem, the canal burial scheme was also incorporated into the urban plan. ”

"However, the project was met with resistance from the local public, and it sparked a protracted campaign to protect the canal, and it was only 16 years later that the final result was that half of the width of the river was filled in to make a road, and the rest of the riverbed was used to create a street park."

A young man and a woman strolling along the canal, the girl helps explain the ins and outs of the vision...... What is a little unsightly is that the two are holding hands.

"It's really strange that people tend to be emotionally inclined, and most people are indifferent to the ongoing prosperity, and even habitually see the negative effects of it, but they are more nostalgic for the prosperity of the past and the present that has been lost...... Miyadai said, and he is more concerned about this psychology than about canals and other things.

Although the phrase "the working people are the greatest" is somewhat high-sounding, it is an excellent formality in this kind of project to transform nature, although there is no distinction between superior and inferior in this greatness, but when it comes to the word canal, people like Gong Daiju culture are not very easy to move...... Other people's canals are always not grand enough.

Sixteen Chinese New Year's Eve sixteen years will not cause any surprise...... In the sixth century B.C., the Chinese had already led the Yangtze River into the Huai, and then in the Warring States Period, the four rivers of the river, the Huai, the river and the Ji have been artificially communicated, and in the sixth century, there was a large canal running through the north and south, and then until the nineteenth century, the canal pirates were constantly repaired...... Throughout feudal history, the Chinese have been building this 2,000-kilometer artificial canal.

About every Chinese ancestor had someone who died on the river embankment, but no one cares much about such things now.

"Probably the current prosperity is just prosperity, and after accumulation, it can be regarded as culture...... Or is it just a sense of loss? Iwami replied simply.

"Well, or maybe that's it." Miyadai said that this is probably the kind of "what you can't get is always in turmoil".

He just said it casually, and didn't want this topic to rise to the level of life philosophy, simply put, this kind of "remote area" with a sense of being forgotten by the times, if it is used as a travel destination, I believe that not too many people will refuse.

Quiet, ancient and simple...... As long as you don't run into a black guide, such a trip will probably get a positive review.

"It's just that there are more tourists than I thought, and I thought the town would be a little more deserted in the winter." Miyadai said.

"Maybe it's because of the festival, which is held every winter...... It's an ice festival. To make it easier to understand, Iwami uses a more simple phrase, "In particular, the canal will become a 'snow lantern road' full of candles and gas lamps, and even the river will be covered with lights, and people will pray on the roadside." ”

"Senior sister, you really like this kind of activity, but we should have left here a long time ago by then." Miyashiro said that the lack of modern lighting at night and the shadowy lights always give people a sense of sadness in the process of bustle, especially in this environment that is easy to give people the illusion: modern high-rise buildings on one side of the river, and old single-storey buildings on the other side.

This kind of feeling of "knowing that death and life are illusory" can also be "looking at the present in the future, and still looking at the past in the present", to be honest, Gong Daiju doesn't like it, so although it is a pity not to see the lights, it is not a pity.

It's a pity that I can't play a drama of "suddenly looking back, but the person is in the dim light".

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Miyadai had planned to stay here for three or four days and then return, but after a long period of weather in Hokkaido, a blizzard was brewing...... If he wants to shoot snow scenes, he is satisfied.

Although the snow was not severe enough to paralyze traffic, the two were stranded here for more than a week for safety reasons, so that with the time spent on the journey and other places, the journey lasted almost half a month.

The materials have been collected and the dog food has been distributed, so in terms of time alone, they also need to return.

After returning to the company, there are many important things to deal with, even if Mad Poihat is running on a day-to-day basis, there will always be some problems that need to be dealt with by the main person in charge.

Or in terms of schedule, they don't need to return to Kyoto at all, but just stop in Aomori.

Because this involves the release of "Little Forest", although from the production committee and the distributor, the film did not have a large-scale publicity campaign before its release, but considering the nature of the film and the importance of his side, Miyadai still needs to appear in Aomori at this time.