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Cheers for the help guys - I'll check them out. Kiroro certainly has alot of snow, though I've heard it's quite weather affected at times. We'll see!

Hey All. Just wondering if anyone can help me out. A goup of us is heading up to Sapporo tomorrow for a week. Can anyone give me any advice on some of the better resorts within daytrip striking distance from Sapporo. I'm really keen to hit up Rusutsu but access seems to be a little slow and quite expensive. Travelling time under two hours each way would be preferable. No probs withs Japanese public transport system as i've been living here for 8 months or so. Any help would be much appreciated, cheers

I've only been in Japan for 5 months. My girlfriend and I went for a little weekend drive last week into Gunma. Driving back from the Prince Hotel at Minakami/Fujiwara we nearly ran one of the blighters over. We were both caught by suprise; he/she ran off into the bushes and I did a quick u-turn and pulled off to the side of the round. After a couple of minutes the bear wandered back out and had a sniff round the car. Didn't really seemed that fazed by the whole thing actually. Judging by its behaviour i can understand how they'd be coming into conflict with humans. I for one was stoked t