On the final day of our four days touring in Hokkaido, it had been raining insistently from the early morning. We had been wondering inside the lodge about where we should have a good time before boarding an airplane back to Tokyo departing Asahikawa airport at 19:35 pm. As we had not expected that it would rain, it took us some time, looking at the maps and discussing on several options for a considerable time, until we finally decided to drive south back to Furano to taste delicious local cheese and pizza at the Furano Cheese Factory. From our lodge in Higashi-kagura forest near Asahikawa city, we drove through the country roads in the autumn gentle rain dripping to reach the site for just one and a half hour.
It was a pleasant and quite place. They produce 5 different kinds of original cheeses including the wine cheddar co-developed with Rakunou Gakuen University in 1982, as well as various dairy products such as Nailao ("奶酪"), an old Chinese court sweet, all which we can buy at its souvenir shop. Visitors can also observe the cheese making process. At lunch we ate the big genuine Neapolitan pizzas with full use of its original mozzarella cheese and local fresh products baked on the firewood cooking stove that they imported from Nepali, where the chief chef learned making pizza process. I was surprised to see that my ladies, my wife and the elder son's wife, not satisfied enough, further insisted to taste its original fresh ice-creams too, as I know they are always cautious not to be fat.
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