I have some general questions regarding driving during the winter in Minakami. I went up for the long weekend (January 9th) from Tokyo only to find myself to have enormous difficulties to get to the hotel, Minakami Hotel 200, where I was going to stay with my family. I have a Honda Odyssey with snow tires (only front two wheel drive) and similar to many other guests I got stuck on the way up to the hotel (the last part up the hill when you get off the main road through Minakami). It was on Thursday and the day when it came down about 50-70 cm over night so there were issues with keeping the ro
