[TR: Our trip to Japan (Hakuba, Shiga Kogen & Nozawa)]

Good report.

 

I bet a trip around Tohoku will be fun. Will you be renting a car?

[Where do you live?]

I am in Kawasaki

[How many times this season?]

I've been away for a month or so, so nonce so far. I hope to make up for it soon

[New Resort Search engine]

Great, I really wanted something like this

[Emergency telephone watch 07/08]

Good to see the box getting some snow at last!

[Xmas/NY's Hakuba Roll Call]

 

Canada it is.

[Xmas/NY's Hakuba Roll Call]

Oh ok. So I need Niseko then?

[Where to go first in Japan?]

Cheeseman is a curious character. I would like to meet him.

[Xmas/NY's Hakuba Roll Call]

I want to go. Surrounded by billions of hunky sj guys sounds good to me. (You are all hunky, right?)

[The SJ Hakuba Party number 3]

Feb is best for me.

[I saw ???]

I wish I had time to be bored.

 

Must be great living in such beautiful surrounndings though.

[Favourite Song]

Another "not favorite" but I love this Peter Gabriel song, especially this live version. He opened his concert with this song, just him and his keyboard. Great.

 

[The best rice in Japan]

She looks hot in that outfit!

[Lifts moving at Ishiuchi Maruyama! (Only rice allowed!)]

Thats so funny. Will be showing folk back home. Does it taste different?

[Docomo monthly charges down (but you need to apply)]

[Snow]

 Quote:

Means a colder winter in Japan lets hope that translates into more snow

That sounds good to me.
Wouldn't a colder winter more than likely mean more snow?

[The future:]

Moody photo.

 

I'd much rather be in a comfy ski chalet than a tower block when I'm on a snow holiday.

[The best rice in Japan]

OK so is there a commonly held opinion as to the "best rice" in Japan? I have personally heard lots of names thrown around.

 

Do tell. I expect lots of biased accounts from people living in the sticks.

 

[Snow]

With temperatures over 30 degrees, I think we might be waiting a little longer!

[FEATURES: The Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani]

Yes, it's "get out of the way hugh-man"

Anyone who goes to Shiga Kogen needs to check those monkeys out

[season ticket at appi]

84000 sounds a lot.

[The very best ski & snowboard resort in Japan is.....]

Thats a cool new feature.

[Question to boys with earrings!]

I don't have any piercings - the whole idea seems strange to me.

 

I'm not that keen on seeing guys with earrings, first impressions and all that.......

[Snow Travel & Trip Reports - New Forums section]

My quick opinion for what its worth. I think the seperate section sounds like a good idea.

[Niseko: Annupuri & Higashiyama - quieter than Hirafu?]

Hirafu seems to be the main hotspot in "Niseko", but the other areas - Annupuri and Higashiyama - are they much quiter or just a bit quieter?

 

Some of us don't need loud and busy busy!