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Day 7
Lake Toya to Hakodate (269km)
25 September 2025
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Tricia Field and Susan Godfrey, 1950 Bentley Special
Nick and Serita Sleep, 1964 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL
Our second crossing of Hokkaido, this time from
the Pacific to the Sea of Japan, was a very wet one.
In a reprise of our time at Akankohan, today was
the second time we’d woken up next to a lake, and
the second time we’d woken up to a downpour of
biblical proportions.
Oli and Sabine Stastny, 1936 Ford Model 48
Thankfully, the open cars had been allowed to park under
a canopy overnight but, whilst they might have started the
day relatively dry, once they’d left the MTC, Tricia Field and
Susan Godfrey had no weather protection save for their
oilskins and took the full fury of the rain right until the
lunch halt.
The day’s first Regularity, alongside the Toyoizumi
River, was a busy map-based section with 10 junctions in
10km, through a forest of Japanese Knotweed. Torrents of
rainwater cascaded down the many steep hairpins, causing
several cars to scrabble for grip.
The next Regularity, the so-called Down to the Seas
Again, was quite appropriately, just as wet as the previous
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