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Quite a ride that isn't it really.

I reckon so. When it's getting on for 40 degrees, hard to quite believe that 5 months later there's 2-3m of snow on the ground. The stuff of dreams!

Tomamu

Madarao is not a town and there's really no shops up there, other than a few omiyage. Nozawa is a small village too, and yes so if the resort area of Myoko. I doubt you will have much luck in any of them.

Hakuba 47 - 8 Hakuba Cortina - 9 Hakuba Goryu - 8 Hakuba Iwatake - 5 Hakuba Norikura - 4 Hakuba Sanosaka - 1 (-) Happo-one - 5 (+) Tsugaike Kogen - 5

Actually, at least it looks slightly better than the Echigo Yuzawa one.......

Blends in with the natural surroundings

Hakuba 47 - 6 Hakuba Cortina - 5 Hakuba Goryu - 6 (+) Hakuba Iwatake - 5 Hakuba Minekata - 3 (-) Hakuba Norikura - 5 Hakuba Sanosaka - 5 Happo-one - 5 Tsugaike Kogen - 5

Great plan dude. If you don't mind me asking, what's your round abouts total budget for this whole lot?

You mean her?

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Naeba.

Prefer the sake myself Thanks for the info MO.

Wild guess would be Hakuba or Tenjin.

Somewhere caught in an eclipse of the moon?

If you want to avoid lots of the inevitable nonsense that also goes with those two great places, Blimey cider, there's lots to choose form.

....enjoy your time in Japan using it!

I would definitely buy overseas myself.

Sega are doing much better now aren't they?

Yes do tell!

Nice, MagSeven It all seems such a long way away for me now.

Personally if someone asks me what the season is, I'll tell them generally mid to late December through to late March or early April for most places. Obviously noting some exceptions to that.

Same here. For those staying in Nozawa for a week or more, perhaps...

Nice day today