John-San

Would it be taken from around Oide, Hakuba Looking north into Otari Valley

Sorry I am not Indigenous. I think maybe third generation.I do not know much about my Parent but there birth certificate say born in Australian But my English grammar is very bad. Yes very bad!

I am not a alcohol driven person and I don,t have any bogan influences nor do I associate with any person with these qualities. This is how most Foreigners perceive Australian. Then the answer is yes. I am not a perceived Aussie. Just an Aussie with a different in attitude. Those areas you and your mates swam in were probable south of Cairns were you can swim in relative safe conditions. But try swimming in the river North of Cairns or Broom they would be label a idiot like those who enter off piste when roped off. If they want to go off piste why do you have to use the resort to enter those

Well it could be that all the non- conforming Japanese in Japan converge on the that very spot at that exact time?

OK I will try Korean Tourist ?

What can I to that say to that, maybe they are bus load of Chinese tourist?

First, No Japan Resort could or would hire unskilled Ski Patrol. It is a highly regulated industry. Insurance have a lot to do with the non enforcement on blanket bans. The Ski Patrols are told not to enter band areas as they will not be covered by workers compensation. Another reason why. The people who do not obey the warnings are foreigners. In Japan there is not a culture of litigation. Unlike the foreigners culture of litigation. The Resort know a blanket band on off piste would cover they from such litigation and so is not enforce, They also know that the ban will not pervent the forein

I utilise resorts with night boarding often (because I am issue a season pass). Do you have a good night place to hit at night. There is a great jibe night at Yanaba and it is cheap as chips. If your in Hakuba you can catch a train right to the lifts (really about 100 m walk from the train platform). If you can get to Sun Alpina which across the lake from Yanaba, they have a pretty interesting run to sink your edges into as well.

Win the right to stage the games then just use the stadiums that exits. Just use what you all ready have. Part of the deal of winning is that you are able and can prove that you will build white elephants. I think Tokyo can do this without adding any more infrastructure. Just say you will but don,t. The Olympic have not the ball to move the games. Look at Russia they are blantently discrimation Gays and the Olympic are doing nothing. So If Russia can change the rules after given the Game why not Japan?

What I been told by Goryu resort Ski Patrol is that People see tracks leading off into restricted areas and humans being humans will follow. Goryu resort has had three deaths in two season. All these death were in restricted areas. I would not want to be the Patrol bloke going into those restrictedareas to retrieve the bodies just after a big slide has given way because some dumb foreigners was after some untracked snow in a restricted areas. These Bloke have live and work in these condition and known there stuff. There is penty of BC to access through experience guilded tours. Or you can do t

My knees are clapped out, so I took up riding and ditched the runners for a Giant 29s hard tail MTB. We have a MBT trailhead at Mogo Forest with some great trails and a 2km easy downhill run. This section has a adjunct fire trail that run next to the downhill section so you can just do a return climb up hill to the beginning of the downhill section. A circuit of 5kms. 3 up and 2 down. I used to push my bike back up until this bloke show me that I had my bike set up wrong for climbing and adjusted the position and angle of the seat and the High. He also advised me to lower my seat 70mm for ridi

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This year we had a change in the hotels Chef and he suggested that the hotel have a sashimi night once a week. (I have leant from the first season in hotel industry never get on the wrong side of the Chef.) Toshiro the Chef became my best mate. So Toshi pull me aside just before the first sashimi night and ask me taste same sashimi basashi. I look at it and replied in a delighted tone Kobi !! Toshi relied no Basashi. I assume this meant Sashimi Kobi and started to delight myself in this beautiful prepared dish of raw meat. Still to this day it is the best meat dish that I had ever consumed. I

Hi Winter Vacation I was born in Aussie, My Parents were round eyed Aussies. My grammar indicates that I was educated in Aussie. But I have limited similarities of an Aussie. I work the pass three snow season in the hospitality Industral in Japan which cater for Aussies Skiers and Boarders. So I get to look into the mirror a lot and find myself cringing at most of the reflections cast by my follow Aussies. Really I am embarrass by their self centred attitudes of most Aussie,s and Kiwi,s who travel overseas. I grow up in lower class urban Sydney. I was also institutionalised from 3 years of a

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Hello SJ I sorry about that. I am A typical Aussie who can not spell or used English grammar correctly. I was attempting to comparing Japan Taxis to Aussie Taxis. We also refer to them as Taxis . I am A typical Australia who was educated by and Australian who was also educated by an Australian. So the Australian grammar is actual a bastardised form of English grammar. It is rare the find an Aussie who can use English grammar correctly. I myself relying heavily on the correction software when constructing a letter or email. I find that it does not pick all my grammar mistakes. I do apologi

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Hi Josh The rental are all over the resorts. It depends on where you are staying. That time of year , don,t expect great gear. I have 2 friends who each owns rentals shop at Goryu-Tomi. They always restock at the beginning of the season. Rental do 10% discount deal with certain hotels in the resort. Like there is 5 to 7 villages each with there own resort. I start at the most popular southern resort. Kimoshiro, Iimore and Goryu Villages cater for ski resort Goryu-Tomi/ 47. Echoland, Hakuba and Happo Villages cater for HappoOne. and you also have Iwatake,Tsagaiki , Norikura and Cortina. al