I counted my clean shirts and looked at the days until I get somewhere I’m staying more than a day, and it wasn’t adding up. It was time to do laundry again. I decided to walk to a different coin laundry because the one at the Sapporo Capsule Hotel was kind of depressing.

The Aqua Coin Laundry was a mile down the road and I didn’t go last time because of the distance. it was nicer and had larger wash/dry machines. I figured those must work better than the small wash/dry machines in the hotel, plus there were big tumble dryers in the corner if I needed them. Three of these medium washers, two bigger washers, and three dryers.

And that was the extent of my plans. I didn’t bring enough shirts, and I found some holes in one of them, so I thought I should buy some more quick-drying shirts at Montbell. I didn’t make it very far because I saw a guy with a Calgary Rugby shirt and I bored him most of the day. He’s here doing support for Getty Images, and there are teams of photographers going to most of the Rugby World Cup matches. I showed him how to get to the Oktoberfest, found him some computer parts for an mSATA drive, and recommended the pork bowl place (where I went again).

Basically just hung around the hotel and train station but I had some sort of purpose. He really wanted to go to the beach and do some snorkeling but the season is over and they weren’t letting people into the water anyway.

Tomorrow I’m off to Aomori!