Soubriquet, Bizarrely enough we ran into the family we bought our current house from in Niseko...LOL!!! Sandgropper central huh?
Thursday, yeah - we are flying from and to Tokyo as a family - not only cheaper, a darn site easier to organize. We tried to book on the Cassiopea Tokyo to Sapporo (talk about impossible to do from outside the country!). But 'His Injuredness is a train trip fanatic, so it will be more for the train expereince than the physical relocation... go figure - me? it would be the plane!!
And I am sure he will be giving the Onsens a work out - we didn't do them