Sapporo Dome

Day 4: Sapporo Dome

Honestly, a lot of things happened on the second day that I wanted to write about (when it was happening), but by the time we got back to the dorm we were staying at I was just too tired. And by now, a week later, the memory of the two days have kind of blurred together ^^;

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We had thought that our seats for December 1st weren’t very good at first, but once we sat down, the first thing that we said was, “so close!” And it’s true, I’ve never been so close to the stage before. The “Superfresh” march/dance was on our side of the stage so we got to see that pretty clearly, and when they were on the balloons during “Tabi wa Tsudzuku yo” and “Lucky Man” they were probably the closest. Yet again, during “Lucky Man”, I was too busy looking at MatsuJun even though Sho-kun was in front of us *failed ichibaner*. Sho-kun was kind of mean, though. When he was near us he had three of the Popcorn balls that he hadn’t thrown yet. It wasn’t like I was thinking I’d catch one – he had his back turned to us, facing the arena instead, waving one of the balls like he was going to throw it to them. Every time, he turned to the stands at the last minute and threw it towards our side instead. None close to us, but I remember saying to Kelly, “Sho-kun’s mean, teasing them like that!” But, I guess to me that’s his charm point? Haha.

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Day 3: Sapporo Dome

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The first day of Sapporo Dome! Kelly and I arrived in Sapporo at around 9:30 in the morning, and by the time we reached our hostel we were ready to just crash into our beds and sleep til noon. Instead, we went back out and slogged through the snow to get to Sapporo Dome, to buy goods! Luckily, there wasn’t really a queue for goods today. One of the girls at our hostel told us that the earphone jacks (which are red for Sapporo, by the way. Yay!) sold out the day before. Thanks to the lack of queue, we got all our goods pretty quickly. This also meant that we had extra hours to kill, and all the nearby restaurants and cafes were completely full (with Arashi fans, of course). There was a display of Nino’s Pocky ads at a supermarket we passed. The entire area was crowded with fans buying Pocky, because they had a special where if you bought two boxes, you get a devil horns headband. I bought a couple, to give to my sister, who’s a Nino fan.

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