OzOzOz 2 Posted April 23, 2002 Share Posted April 23, 2002 Anyone know? No-one goes there! Just doing it for fun? Link to post Share on other sites
ug 0 Posted April 23, 2002 Share Posted April 23, 2002 I think lots of them are either town-owned or just owned by farmers of families and don't need to be hugely profitable to continue. Link to post Share on other sites
koochie 0 Posted April 24, 2002 Share Posted April 24, 2002 Any examples in particular? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted April 24, 2002 Share Posted April 24, 2002 Wada Toge has got just one lift. Most days there are maybe 10 riders in all on the 3 official slopes and 1 unofficial slope, if that. On the couple of long weekends, though, the place is packed with Kanto sophisticates who flock from all around Tokyo to every scrap of snow in Nagano with a chairlift. There's no room to park our big cars sideways as we're accustomed. Wada is called 'kokuritsu' so I guess that means they may be subsidized. That may also explain why they're trying to grow trees under the chairlift and on their best run. Link to post Share on other sites
akibun 0 Posted April 27, 2002 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Many of the place are own by town and subsidised by it. And some are just owned by rich farmer who do for a hobby. I think. Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 Lots of them don't need much staff at all - just farmer types (great people!) - and not much upkeep. Just keep the lift chugging. So they don't cost that much to run. Do they???? Link to post Share on other sites
cheeseman 1 Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 If they sold cheese in the shop at the bottom they might win over lots of cheese-fans out there. Link to post Share on other sites
nagoid 4 Posted May 9, 2002 Share Posted May 9, 2002 There's quite a few of them around and I often wonder how they can keep going. There never seem to be more than a handful of people going there. They musn't need the cash. Ii, neeee... Link to post Share on other sites
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