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furano [my way] narita to haneda - 1 hour stop over at haneda excel hotel - 10 hours haneda to asahikawa - 2 hours stop over 2 days asahikawa terminal hotel - 48 hours [ ski / board kamui / asahidake ] asahikawa to furano - 1 and a half hours total = 62.5 hours furano [bogan express way] narita to chitose - 2 hours , drop a tab of crystal meth in flight and wash it down with a good pull on the duty free bundy . on the bus from chitose you hoot and holler like "lightin hopkins" all the way to furano - 3.5 hours get out at furano jr station , find out its the wrong sto

hi robo not much action on this thread , so i will try and kick it along a bit . mate i think niseko is the place for you , they are a bit short on hillbilly ski bums so you will fit in just fine . what they dont like in niseko is "low life thieving intoxicated scumbag bogans , with joe dirt style haircuts" . old pow and the native have assured me these types have moved on , but i will visit niseko hirafu in early march to check they are not tellin pork - pies . should be no trouble teaching english in japan , i suspect some people on this forum are doing the same thing ? have ta

try okinawa , very fond of americans there .

yeah we were at thredbo last year and its a funny place , top of the super trail its like ice skating then the middle parts really good , then at the bottom it turns to water sking [ just near kosie express ]. saw a wombat come out in a blizzard between sponars and antons ? every skier takes one run too many and it happened to me in nz , took a tumble in the harris mts. and a ski came back and belted me in the back of the head ' no helmets those days . i wear one now .

58 years and that first 3 days of learning agony , maybe a broken wrist or thumb [ common boarder injuries ] , no thanks . still japan must be great for beginners ? in both sking and boarding at falls c. my kids instructor was meg or megumie from nagano prefecture . great instructor . i hired wrist guards for the kids but they never used them , said they just get in the way ?

yes if i were young i would give snow boarding a go . if it was'nt for the new carvers and fatter type skies , we skiers might of ended up like the doo doo bird !!!!!!!!!!!! bring back the tellies mama that will stir em up . your pics in niseka are great .

tomamu is a purpose built ski resort for mainly well to do japanese and asian visitors . a furano resident told me " worth a day visit , steep on top , very flat at the bottom , great facilities and hotels . some seasons it can be icy due to the base snow not settling in properly " [ whatever that means? ] . from sahoro you are very close to tomamu , they must do day visits ? we are going to both sahoro and tomamu in mid january , hope to have more details then . snowjapan have some good reviews on both resorts from independent skiers and boarders . my kids [ been skiers for

hi alx good price with the tokyo stopover . if going straight thru to chitose from syd , there is a hotel in the chitose terminal for an overnight stopover . i have stayed here myself . chitose station has good english signage , remember hokkaido gets many millions of tourists per year .

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hi alx very easy to find an agent alx , just go along paramatta road , most use to work as used car salesman before becomming ski/ travel agents . jal itself is a a ski / board travel agent . call themselves jtb travel or somethink like that . check out the ski section . mate old pows an agent , he is in sales , not info . chitose to shintoku [for sahoro ] land at chitose , go to the jr rail station [ at chitose airport ] buy a ticket to shintoku . jump on the train to minami chitose [called sapporo to chitose line ] change there at minami chitose for a train to shintoku [ c

mate of mine from west oz goes here , stays at the sahoro resort hotel , tells me he is the only gaigin in the hotel [ unlike club med ] . tells me nobody about on the ski slopes ? i am going up there in jan so will report back . while in this area will go to tomamu as well .

we are really looking forward to our trip there in late feb early march , would like it longer but the kids have to go to school so its only a week .

pow any news on an extension of the jal sakitoku advance purchase fare into jan / feb / mar ?

hell cancel niseko , go native just wrote in the chat room that bookings are up 49 percent on last year ? you know what happened to pinocchio ? go native !!!!! on a racecourse this is called urging , stockmarket has another name for it ?