koshouyarou
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Kind of bored lately because I have nothing to watch except for Community and the snowboarding dvds I've borrowed off friends.
Anyone have any recommendations?
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When you go, ask them to send some snow back to the main island.
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You can get a pre-paid phone pretty easily at softbank. Pretty cheap I guess.
But I'm not sure if that's if you're actually working here and and need to have your gaijin card,
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If you're going to Hakuba I recommend hitting up Tsugaike for a day. When snow falls, it falls the most there (sometimes Cortina wins tbh) and the backcountry (if you're into that) is also pretty good.
I went to tsugaike once. I will never... never... never ever go back there. Its my #1 most hated resort ive been to. That flat middle part annoyed me beyond a level i thought it was impossible to be irritated. Then theres the powder traps all over it. If you like the pow, enjoy unclipping and walking through it
Also, everythings kinda short. Theres only one run i remember being a little bit long... and only a little bit.Im sure the heli skiing is great and all, but for the resort itself, even if this site gave me free tickets and i was in hakuba anyway i wouldnt go. Id rather pay 4500 yen and sit in goryu another day.
Dont get me wrong, im not saying other people cant have fun there or that theyre wrong. Its just when i turned up, the fun seemed to be located somewhere else.
It's a very beginner / intermediate resort. I worked there for a season, so I could be biased. But like most resorts, once you know where the fun parts are you always can enjoy yourself I suppose.
see, this is what i was angling at
Wheres the fun bits! tell tell tell! im always up for being shown to be wrong because it means i get new super secret info 
It's been a while since I've been there. But there's a nice stretch up the top around the back of Tsuga Ni (Where the park up the top is) that will bring you out to the Champion part of the mountain.
Sorry for the vague details but I'll have to go back there to remember exactly where it is. There's a bunch of other places too, and when the ropeway opens up in March going up the top is also very viable. But I wouldn't really bother with it during the early season.
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If you're going to Hakuba I recommend hitting up Tsugaike for a day. When snow falls, it falls the most there (sometimes Cortina wins tbh) and the backcountry (if you're into that) is also pretty good.
I went to tsugaike once. I will never... never... never ever go back there. Its my #1 most hated resort ive been to. That flat middle part annoyed me beyond a level i thought it was impossible to be irritated. Then theres the powder traps all over it. If you like the pow, enjoy unclipping and walking through it
Also, everythings kinda short. Theres only one run i remember being a little bit long... and only a little bit.Im sure the heli skiing is great and all, but for the resort itself, even if this site gave me free tickets and i was in hakuba anyway i wouldnt go. Id rather pay 4500 yen and sit in goryu another day.
Dont get me wrong, im not saying other people cant have fun there or that theyre wrong. Its just when i turned up, the fun seemed to be located somewhere else.
It's a very beginner / intermediate resort. I worked there for a season, so I could be biased. But like most resorts, once you know where the fun parts are you always can enjoy yourself I suppose.
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If you're going to Hakuba I recommend hitting up Tsugaike for a day. When snow falls, it falls the most there (sometimes Cortina wins tbh) and the backcountry (if you're into that) is also pretty good.
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Snowboard. Started 2 years ago when I came to Japan to work in Hakuba.
Now it's an addiction. Should I go into therapy?
SnowJapan Giveaways - 50 Mt Six lift tickets (Happo-one, Nozawa Onsen, Akakura Onsen, Kusatsu Onsen, Zao Onsen)
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Wow a lot of decent resorts lined up in this one.