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I would love to get snow tires -- but I have no place to stash my regular tires. And I drive daily 40km back and forth to work. I think I would rather just get some chains. Plus I would have to get a second set of wheels for the snow tires. Even if they are just steel wheels -- the costs start to add up. I will look into Autobacs for a rack system and the tire chains. Thanks!

Hey guys, I am new to the boards. My wife and I are avid snow sports fans (she skis and I board). We moved to Tokyo in October, with my company for a 2 to 3 year stint here. This will be our first winter here. I have a car (a Nissan Bluebird Sylphy) and I would like to drive up to Hakuba in January with a group of expats (it's cheaper and easier for us to drive versus taking the bullet train -- and we want to have a car so that we can get supplies and such as we are renting a house up there). How necessary will it be to get snow chains? In the states I would always get c