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These Walking Dreams: Day 116 (August 6, 2017)

Kaede, Yūbari → Niniu, Shimukappu

Map of Hokkaido with author’s route from Yūbari to Shimukappu highlighted. 🗺 Open map in GaiaGPS ⇝

Several melonkuma, or melon-bears, cartoon melon with the head of a bear, on a white wall. 🍈🍈🍈🐻🍈 Kaede, Yūbari

A woman selling melons looks at a crate labelled “Yūbari Melon”.

Closeup of the melons in the crate.

Closeup of one of the melons cut in half, showing its bright orange flesh. 📍 Noborikawa, Yūbari

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These Walking Dreams is a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017.