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SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY Lift tickets for SUN ALPINA RESORT, NAGANO This week, you have the chance to win lift tickets to the Sun Alpina Kashimayari resort in Nagano. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php As always, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. If you're not yet registered, please register and login and you will be able to access the Specials page.

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY Lift tickets for SUN ALPINA RESORT, NAGANO This week, you have the chance to win lift tickets to the Sun Alpina Kashimayari resort in Nagano. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php As always, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. If you're not yet registered, please register and login and you will be able to access the Specials page.

A new Setting Journals feature, "What's it like to be a part of a resort in full flight?" has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-8.html We hope you enjoy it. Feel free to discuss it here....

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY Lift tickets for NISEKO HIRAFU RESORT, HOKKAIDO This week, you have the chance to win lift tickets to the popular powder snow resort - Niseko Hirafu - in Hokkaido. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php As always, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. If you're not yet registered, please register and login and you will be able to acc

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY Lift tickets for NISEKO HIRAFU RESORT, HOKKAIDO This week, you have the chance to win lift tickets to the popular powder snow resort - Niseko Hirafu - in Hokkaido. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php As always, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. If you're not yet registered, please register and login and you will be able to acc

A new Chairman of the 'Board feature, "Hear My Train a Comin'", has been put online. Hope you enjoy it. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/chairman-25.html Discuss it here....

JANUARY SNOW JAPAN EXTRA GIVEAWAY - Until 7th February 2003 (extended) In this extra giveaway, we have the following prizes for our readers: - 10 lift tickets for NISEKO HIRAFU RESORT - 10 lift tickets for JOETSU KOKUSAI RESORT - 3 sets of SMITH GOGGLES So that means there will be 23 winners, so if you enter you will have a better-than-usual chance of winning! HOW TO ENTER: Entering this giveaway is a little different from our usual weekly giveaways..... To enter: - be registered and logged in to SnowJapan.Com; - submit a RESORT REVIEW (of at least 50 w

JANUARY SNOW JAPAN EXTRA GIVEAWAY - Until 7th February 2003 (extended) In this extra giveaway, we have the following prizes for our readers: - 10 lift tickets for NISEKO HIRAFU RESORT - 10 lift tickets for JOETSU KOKUSAI RESORT - 3 sets of SMITH GOGGLES So that means there will be 23 winners, so if you enter you will have a better-than-usual chance of winning! HOW TO ENTER: Entering this giveaway is a little different from our usual weekly giveaways..... To enter: - be registered and logged in to SnowJapan.Com; - submit a RESORT REVIEW (of at least 50 w

A new As I Ski It feature, "It's So Close You Can Spit On It", has been put online. Hope you enjoy it. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/as-i-ski-it-9.html Discuss it here....

Just to wish everyone involved in the Snow Japan Community all the very best for 2003. May it be full of white powdery days out on the mountains for as long as we can get the season to last Thanks for using the site - and have a fun and prosperous 2003. SnowJapan.Com

A new Niseko Magic feature, "Powder for thought..." has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/niseko-magic-15.html Discuss it here....

Hope you all have a great Christmas wherever you are and whatever you're doing! SnowJapan.Com

In the second feature of the day, a new As I Ski It feature, "Crossing Cultures at the Sukii-Jou", has been put online. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/as-i-ski-it-8.html Hope you enjoy it. Discuss it here....

SNOW JAPAN FORUMS The Snow Japan Forums will be unavailable for most of Saturday (21st) and Sunday (22nd). The reason for this is that we need to do some important work on our server/network. We have chosen the weekend to do this as that is usually the time of least activity on the Forums and so will cause the least disruption. Don't worry - the Forums will be back online on Monday at the very latest, hopefully Sunday. Please note that other areas of the site will not be affected by this work - you will still be able to view the site, view and use member pages, write reviews, wr

A new Setting Journals feature, "Why Don't We Open Early?" has been put online. The subject of resorts opening early or not has been hotly debated on the Forums over the last few months. This feature brings you the views of one resort. Agree or disagree with what has to be said, please keep the conversation friendly and constructive http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-7.html Discuss it here....

Someone has just asked us if the Giveaway submissions are judged or random. Well, to answer that: they are not judged in any way, and the winners are chosen at random. (If this is not the case, we will make sure to mention it on that specific giveaway).

2 personal favorites: Ninjin - tonkatsu : (just opposite the Yuzawa Kogen Ropeway) Chinrai - Chinese : between station and Yuzawa Ropeway on the main onsen road

A new Ocean's View feature, "A Snowboarder's Checklist", has been put online. Hope you enjoy it. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/oceans-view-10.html Discuss it here....

Just to be clear on this point. The NOW pages are written by people living in the actual places concerned. So personally trust them or not, the info is coming from those places. The weather and snow depth info on the site comes from perhaps the biggest source of weather data in Japan, the snow depth info in turn coming from the resorts themselves. There is little else more that we can do in an attempt to provide you with the latest information. We do provide this information to our readers at great expense, and it seems that many people are happy with that - and we will contin

A new feature, "The First Time", by deebee, has been put online. Hope you enjoy it. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-54.html Discuss it here....

namenya I haven't been myself but know someone who has. Naeba until today has been struggling with real snow. They have a man-made slope open but until last night not much real snow at all to talk about. Take a look at the Yuzawa Now page which has some new photos as of 1pm today. While Naeba is 30 minutes from the town, it is doubtful that there is heavy snow going on up there right now. Best to wait, I think.

PLEASE NOTE: One of the winners from last week seems to have provided a non-existent email address to register to the site - but that means that the mail bounced back to us, and that user will not be able to win anything! The giveaways this year are open to all registered users in the Insider section - but please make sure that your email address is correct if you want to be correctly entered. Thanks.

PLEASE NOTE: One of the winners from last week seems to have provided a non-existent email address to register to the site - but that means that the mail bounced back to us, and that user will not be able to win anything! The giveaways this year are open to all registered users in the Insider section - but please make sure that your email address is correct if you want to be correctly entered. Thanks.

A new Chairman of the 'Board feature, "Leap of Faith", has been put online. Hope you enjoy it. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/chairman-24.html Discuss it here....

The resorts over in that area are not open yet. There may be an argument for the page not to be started so early because of this, but some people find the info to be of interest (reflected in no. of page views). Once the season gets underway, we are hoping that the info will provide some good information that people will find useful if they are planning to go to the area. The report is not in any way 'corporate sponsored', as are none of our other reports. That's not what our site is about. We are striving to provide our users with the best information that we can. Yes, in the