jjbeers

I was looking forward to the fish markets. Can I still go to the outers of the markets where they sell the fresh sashmi and sushi? As for Museum's, I enjoyed the Manga Museum in Kyoto.

Forcasts from about Wed next week are looking up plenty of snow coming hopefully a sign of things to come.

I too am starting to get a little nervous about the lack of snow forcast in the next week or so, i will be on the slopes in 2 weeks. Say worst case they only have say 50cm up on Yamabiko when we get there, Will it still be good boarding?

Originally Posted By: Axel Lieber One other thing. You do understand that Sakaya is fullboard, yes? Every morning and evening you will be served a full scale course menu that begs to be accompanied - in the evenings! - by beer, sake and shochu. (Note: try the horse meat sashimi!) If after that and a hard day of riding you are still capable of venturing out to town and yet again next morning be up in time for the best snow then you must have an enviable condition. What you may want to do is see if you can be accomodated half-board on a couple of days and use those for your excursions to town. A

Originally Posted By: iiyamadude Ryokan Sakaya is a fine place - probably the best in Nozawa. My suggestion - first of all ask Mori-san at Sakaya and he'll point you to places you probably wouldn't find on your own. It is a small village, half the fun is walking round and finding places. Don't expect Mad Parties, it's not like that. Thanks for the replys. So Mori-san is the man, we will do alot of exploring on our own but advice from the locals is always welcome. I t will help that our friend from Osaka will be with us. When I was last in Nihon,we stayed at few Ryokan's some

G'day my name is JJ, have just joined up to this forum, and have some q's with regards to Nozawa Onsen and Dec/Jan in Japan in general. So myself and crew of about 8 are heading to Nozawa from the 21st to the 29th of December for a bit of R&R and boarding. We will be staying at Ryokan Sakaya I think. So being from the land of Oz we don't mind a drink and so far I have found 1 place called the foot bar (I think), but would like some more suggestions on after dark activity's