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Originally Posted By: skidaisuki Al, One final piece of advice - when Japanese ask you where you are from and you reply 'Scotland', don't get offended when they ask 'is that near London...?' London??? i think ive heard of that? isnt it just south of dundee?

Cheers for all the advice... My current plan is looking like 10 days in Niseko then a week on the mainland - weekend in Tokyo, then nip about on the train to a few places from there. My Japanese mate here recommended sorting out a rail pass before i left. Apparently you cant get the same deals in japan or something - that way we can make an assesment from niseko and tokyo about where to go and what to do with our remaining days. It would be great to get hosed under cherry blossom trees - i would love to travel all around but unfortunatly i only have 3 weeks off work. If its as good as im hopi

Thanks bag of crisps I guess that would explain the white stuff and the volcano, well the white stuff at least...its not quite as silly a question as it sounds as the snow looked amazing to me and he said apparently it wasnt a great time for snow...but didnt say when he was there. Prolly early season unless he filmed it last year. (prawn cocktail crisps are amazing, i also like wousterestershershire sauce flavour and monster munch - thats my crisp preference - oh and cool doritos, and lime doritos, and tangy toms - thought you might be interested)

I need to get from Tokyo (flying into Narita - arriving in the morning) to Sapporo - if anyone could suggest the best/ quickest/ cheapest way to do it that would be great. Money isnt too big a deal - i would much rather pay 2x as much to get there 2x as quick but it would be good to review all the possible options.

Any of you out there who live in the UK or have access to british TV may have seen a report on Niseko that featured on Ski Sunday - Looked fantastic! I have built up the idea of snowboarding in Japan in my head but what i saw on this report was breathtaking!! Did anyone see it? If so, would you be able to advise what part of Niseko it was filmed in, and also maybe what time of year? Cheers in advance! Wooooo!

i think oil is actually getting more - as opposed to running out. i blame penguins for global warming (i saw some chillin on the beach in south africa looking well guilty) and i think the world was created by a hamster in a chicken's egg space ship that smells of hammers - discuss

zero 7, newton faulkner and 'soil and "pimp" sessions' for chilled out stuff. Dragonforce, priestess and Finntroll for mental metal days. Bent, digitalism and justice for a dancey mood. Fire camp, skepta and roll deep for grimey UK hip hop sessions. and Estradasphere for when im considering insanity:)

oh and glas maol was alright, a bit too icey to be good, but the lift had been busted for a few days so at least it was unridden. Its not to bad a poma in the glenn schheeeme of things seeing as it doesnt but your balls or lift you right off the ground.

pomas are the bain of my snowboarding existance!! You use more energy getting up the hill than you do going down!! can't wait for more snow, my folks live about half way between the deen and the lecht and they had some snow a couple days ago!! sweeet - p.s. hotel in niseko is booked! Canny wait min!

Hmmm, i can see the pics in my window, uploaded them with imageshack. Ill look into the overseas section - there are 3 pics - pretty shoddy quality as i took them on my phone, my camera is out of action after a crazy holiday in spain:)

Hello peoples, Ive been getting my scottish snowboarding on - not really too shabby really! Some of the best snow ive seen in a good while (in scotland anyway). I have changed my plans after discussing my trip with my travel buddy - instead of doing the Furano binge, i am just going to head straight to Niseko - Hirafu and do 10days (ish) there before heading to Tokyo - booked up for Bamboo lodge - cheap as chips so we will have plenty money for Sashimi. Ive read on posts here that 10 days in grand Hirafu isnt too long - we will probably go for a 2 week pass and that should cover

All i can drink for £6? Im strongly considering quitting my job and becoming a Japanese Whaler - this place rules!!! There are just two of us coming over, myself and a dundonian - should be good crack, hopefully we can make some mental mates to go Boarding/ drinking/ karaoking with. We are friendly chaps thats for sure - im pretty big in japan too.

Do they cater for round eye? I went to a Cantonese karaoke bar in Singapore because i used to live in honk kong and reckoned i remembered how to sing canto happy birthday "WRONG"!!! Totally **** it, and i cant read Cantonese so the subtitling didnt really help. The asians were hating Al that day! A few dozen beers and some Karaoke sounds great! My chinese uncle showed me how to do it properly! My speciallity is Eminem in a glasweigan accent. It has to be seen to be believed.

I run a mac and would be using the camera solely for video editing via my mac purposes so its all good either way - i can plug my mac into my tv and watch it that way if i do want to preview my stuff before I burn it. Im not too bothered about stuff being super cheap, more just getting some crazy technology that i wont see in the UK for another year or so. You get meh?? I figure cameras in the states are cheap as fook, the pound is stonger than the dollar! HOLLA

First of all, thanks everyone - some good suggestions there! AK - i am mates with some lecht regulars - Jamie Reiach for example, he has a 2090 tattoo which is pretty much as dedicated to the lecht as one could possibly get!! Gimme some names and ill let you know...Im not big into it on account of the lecht is shite, but i do try and go up as often as possible. Prefer glenshee - if they could lift the park from 2090 and chuck it at glenshee, i would be much happier. I know boys who work in Boarderline, one of my good mates Andy used to work there so i ken those boys ken. Braaap.

'you people?' - 'YOU PEOPLE' havnt you seen braveheart - we fought for our right to be called jocks or assh@les! I bet Thursday is the dirtyest of the lot! Braap

So these camera shops are they likely to be cheaper than Tokyo? Im keen to pick up a crazy tiny video camera to document my trip - would i be better in Tokyo or Sapporo? Anyone got any idea how much a taxi would cost? If it was in Aberdeen (my home town) it would cost about 200,000yen i recon! they are an f'in rip off!!!

i just read that most soaplands dont allow foreigners cos we all have aids or something...gutted!

im surrounded by taches all day out here: So avoiding them is a preference.

expand on what a rug and tug place is?

So im heading to Japan at the end of March and i want to turn japanese like the song - turning japanese. So far i plan to dine at the ninja restaurant, the lock up, eat fugu, buy used panties (for other people), ride ridiculous powder, stay in a capsule hotel, perhaps a love motel and hopefully join and rise up through the ranks of the Yakuza (just kidding). Does anyone have any suggestions as to any other crazy things for me to get up to? Im pretty much down for whatever so no suggestion is too silly!!

fan-bloody-tastic! i shall have a look for one in tokyo town. I should probably start a thread in the off topic forums for more ideas really. Cheers for the shout, sounds amazing!

amazing! and where is the best fugu? and the Ninja resturant! (anything else that could make me even more of a tourist?)

i heard a terrible rumour that the undie vending machines were no more - they had been removed and were now only to be found in the imagination of tokyo-joes (for lack of a better generality) can someone please confirm this - if they still exisit, can you please give me an address to fire into my tomtom/ google maps. I swear they are not for me, its for my disgruntled uncle and humerous christmas presents for next year.

all night binges - spaff booths - ninja train fights! I am going to love this place! an oil workers dream:)