tokabochi

Not raining here at the moment, but very windy

Hold on now. That would take you further away from Mt Granview.

Sounds like you did not go at the best of times! If you were limited to that bottom run it would be a nightmare, presumably you got up to the top bowl area at least part of the time?

I like the way on the Cheese Fondue packet for food type it says チーズフード Put a bit of wine in it and it was quite nice actually.

Cheese Fondue enjoying a bit of culture

Cheese Fondue with Mt Granview in the background

The Box this morning, 26th Feb 2013

Got a 'first' coming up in the next few days.

The house in the photo you posted, while not particularly beautiful, looks fine to me. Should I post a photo of one of the zillions of houses in Japan that have their kitchen on the ground floor or something? As if further proof were not needed! (I'm sure glad it's not too cold as well. What could be better, tons of snow and not mad cold?) While we're keeping on going on about people going on about things, I don't know why you keep on going on about 'connections' to gardens, and all the other stuff you keep on going on about. You should come over here and do some s

Not in this region it doesn't. No one is talking about 'open spaces below' anyway. I think the only thing this 'proves' is that Tokamachi gets tons more snowfall than Hakuba.

No. Mostly people dig wells (ido?) and the natural warm water is pumped up from there. The cost after being installed being the electricity cost of the pump, so fairly low running costs. Installing it can set you back 100-200man though.

After a day of horrid rain yesterday, light snow falling this morning.

Looking at Yahoo weather is usually a bit like looking at your tea leaves in the bottom of the cup.

Ontake?

Interesting that. Perhaps there are regional differences. Must say almost all new places I can think of round here in Tokamachi area, even really big places with decent amounts of land, have 2 or sometimes space/garage area for 3 cars on the ground floor. Some great big stonkers of houses as well. If lots of the good people of yukiguni are choosing that, there must be a reason.

As someone else said muika, you made the mistake of shuning Mt Granview, for sure.

Trust the snow to fall on the day of the Snow Festival. It started in the evening yesterday.

Looks nice that!

You're right!

I don't think Mt Granview is open on weekdays. (?)