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Slippery Jim

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  1. Uniqlo's heat-tech: 2 base layers & a fleece, cheap and good quality, buy on arrival at Narita. Buy a decent jacket and bring with you, also gloves and goggles, a helmet if you're nervous. IF you're spending a day in Tokyo, plenty of good discounted jackets, gloves, goggles (and helmets if you're the nervous type) can be found wandering the shops in Jinbocho. If you're heading straight from Narita to the mountain, I'd buy at home and bring with you.

     

    With six days I'd suggest Hokkaido, maybe 2 or 3 days at Teine as Tubby suggested, and then 3 at Niseko (Annupuri would be a good choice there) or Rusutsu or Kiroro. Or start at Iwappara and stay in the Yuzawa region enjoying some of the other great hills there, snow should be excellent in late Jan/early Feb.

  2. Flew SEA-HND a while back on ANA. It was probably the most comfortable flight I've ever taken (well, we were in business class :) ).

    I do think the extra pressure/humidity make a difference, just nowhere nearly as much as where you're sitting.

     

    fixed typo, now HND

  3. Let's see, I've been through (not necessarily personal involvement)...

    Three Japanese Red Army ``Incidents''

    One Nixon Shock

    Two Oil Shocks

    18 Yen-daka/Yen-yasu Cycles

    Innumerable Earthquakes

    25 Prime Ministers

    One Marunouchi Bombing

    One Death Cult Sarin Gas Attack

    47,000 Suicide Train Delays (est)

    3 Multiple Fatality Tunnel Disasters

    Half a Dozen Toilet Paper Panics

    17 (official) North Korean Abductions of Japanese

    15,872 (est) Drownings of Senior Citizens (who went out in typhoons to check their crops)

    5,931 (est) Deaths of Senior Citizens (who chocked to death eating mochi on New Year's Day)

    500 (est) Deaths of Children Under 5 (left in closed cars while a parent went to play pachinko)

    45 Senior Police Resignations (after being cited for traffic violations during National Traffic Safety Awareness campaigns)

    135 Arrests of Police Officers for Molestation

    225 Arrests of Teachers for Molestation

    450 Arrests of Civil Servants for Molestation

    48 Tora-san Films

    30 Godzilla Films

    2 Gaijin Tarento Named Kent

    148,963 Off-Key Drunken Karaoke Renditions of ``My Way''

     

    Yep, GG, it's always something!

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