Journey of 1500km begins in Niigata

Tomorrow I will be pulling a mad stunt that I have never done before even when I was in Malaysia . I will be traveling 1500km up north to Hokkaido on a train, that would be 3000km on return. The journey will take at least 13 hours, even with one of the fastest trains in the world, the bullet train. I hope I won't drop dead when I reach Sapporo. I have always wanted to travel to Hokkaido during the summer holidays, but the travel time has always been a turn-off. So here I am now, attempting to try it out tomorrow....stay tuned...