ippy 66 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Theres a very very good chance i have a job in rural saitama. Im pretty stoked (i like rural, its peaceful - though looking at the pictures on the web so far makes me think of one thing: huntsman spiders ). Its a place called yorii, so its kinda saitama, but pretty far from saitama itself. Its more like gunma i guess. Just wondering where people in the know might head off to if they were living there? Honestly im kinda stoked. It looks half way to nagano anyway, so weekends are doable no problem if i need to. And a trip to tokyo is under 2000 yen which is nice. And if i do end up with a car now that i can drive, well i can also head to hama and see all my mates. My one sad point is its miles from osaka :'( I <3 osaka :'( But you cant have everything! whee! So where's going to be fun? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 That's still probably closer to Tokyo than it is to the skijo in northern Gunma and Niigata, but you will have a choice of heading north to Minakami/Katashina in Gunma or under the mountain a bit further to Yuzawa. Or branch off to the west, past Karuizawa (yey!) and further into Nagano! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 thanks dude, looks like its not really a great place for easy direct access to ski resorts, but at least that means i get to choose every weekend where i feel like going Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Could also head up to Manza & Kusatsu from there, or Sugadaira. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 sugadaira is miles away im afraid. I used to live in suzaka so i know Arguably it would be easier (if using trains) to hit nozawa or myoko since the trains pretty much dump you pretty near the resorts. I cant even remember if suzaka has a bus going to sugadaira. I always skipped it and went to myoko Link to post Share on other sites
igloo 3 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 You can easy get to Sugadaira from Ueda too. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Map showing that it is between Suzuka and Ueda if you zoom out http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resort_map.php?resortNo=260 Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 i never knew that, i always thought it was outr little mountain Well, being that its 18kms from suzaka and ueda was 44km should have clued me in a bit. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 If coming from Yorii you wouldn't go by way of Suzaka. Link to post Share on other sites
gnarly-dude 1 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Did you like Sugadaira, ippy? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I was planning on going there in March but obviously that didn't happen. Next season. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 i never went. I couldnt find info about a bus there from suzaka (and was unreliably as it turns out) informed that no such bus exists. Obviously i couldnt drive at the time so no bus meant no sugadaira. Pity really because all my students apparently went there. As i say, come the 2009 xmas dump i spent one day at suginohara and decided there and then to buy my season pass. Again, a pity since i maybe got 16 or so days out of it and it also stopped me hitting up shiga and nozawa. I didnt actually go to either of those until i moved to korea Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 You never went and you lived in Suzuka?! Hard to believe ippy! Poor showing there, must say! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 haha, i had the myoko season pass. Let me compound the slapping by also pointing out that i never went to shiga kogen (im already half way to yudanaka on my train line!) nor nozawa onsen which is about the same length of journey as myoko. The season pass was a bad idea. I had to actually leave the country and live in korea before i visited shiga and nozawa Link to post Share on other sites
pickled mushhead 0 Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: DiGriz Could also head up to Manza & Kusatsu from there, or Sugadaira. 2 places I want to check out this time round. You know both well DiGriz? Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Been to Manza often back in the day, not in quite a few years tho. Pretty good snow but not a big place, and with the shinkansen making it so much easier to get up to Shiga/Nozawa/Hakuba/Myoko it hardly seems worth the trip IMHO. Never skied at Kusatsu. Friend who had a place up there said it was OK but not great for snow (lots of thaw/freeze ice). Couple of fairly long runs, one of them supposedly a wide natural halfpipe. Again, I think you can get to the big Nagano areas just as easily. Still, both Manza & Kusatsu are famous onsen, and I can testify to the efficacy of the Manza baths after a long day on the snow. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Want to go there too. Love the onsen part of a hols. Link to post Share on other sites
blinkin'ek 0 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Like Manza. Top snow when I went too. Worth a shufty. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Never been to Manza, but I quite enjoyed Kusatsu though can't see it as being a place for more than a day here and there. Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Kutastau and Manza can be done together as well as they are closeby. Check it in as one of those ski/board/onsen experiences. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Well, they're close in distance, yes, but quite a drive since you'd have to go all the way down the mountain and back up. Of course if you're an experienced back country tourer with the right equipment... Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 everybody knows that if you're any sort of a man (or a really gnarly woman), you'd hike it Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 and you would be naked aswell! Link to post Share on other sites
gnarly-dude 1 Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Gnarly! Link to post Share on other sites
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