北海道自転車旅行：Jul, 3: 岩見沢へ

After camping in Hokkaido university, we are finally fully prepared, left Sapporo and hit the road. Really feels strange that as we are leaving the city, we go pass all these roads that we have gotten familiar with in the past few days. As we are finally getting used to life in this city, we must leave the city and move on to the next.

The city subsided to the suburbs, which then quickly subsided to grasslands, hills and farms. Now and then a little town shows up, with a train station in the center. We spotted a beautiful little train station at Toyohoro, a white wooden building that looks as if it came out of some fairy tale. Mid-size stations, though, are more dule, just some concrete bypass structure over the rail.
We made more kilometers then planned, and got to the city of Iwamizawa (岩見沢) in the afternoon. After some questions about the camping place in Iwamizawa in the info desk at the train station, we located it and called the number to ask if we needed to check-in. The guy at the city office who answered the phone told us to call another number at the park, which told us to call yet another number, which turned out to be a nonexistant number. Well, we just went there anyway.

It was a park next to an amusment park: "Green land". The camping site was aranged by the amusment park, yet, it was just 6pm, and the amusment park already looks closed and haunted. Nice. As we have no where else to go, we camped in the park anyways. The park was big, clean and beautiful. Little hills with lively trees and green grass. Only problem was that there was nowhere to take a shower. Well, I get a cold bath in the huge disabled toilet with water from the faucet. Dinner was very nice though, the 2 girls of us made beef tomato noodles with wholesome sweet soup, thanks to a great big supermarket close by. It was named "Big House", and indeed huge even by American standards, selling a big variety of foods, a large portion on sell.

Iwamizawa is a beautiful little town. Straight streets with wide sidewalks and roadside flowers, many parks, clean and pretty houses, light music playing in the town's main streets, and all kinds of shopping complexs in the surroundings.
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