Hey, long time lurker, I thought I'd post and ask for advice on my plans next season.
This will be my 4th season in Japan and I've always dreamed of doing a bit of cardanchi around honshu.
I am landing sometime late december.
My plan is to hire a toyota suceed or probox from Toyota @ 120000yen/month for 2 months and drive up to aomori and then back down to nagano hitting as many resorts as I can and then probably spend my final month around hakuba or thereabouts.
I'll probably stay in a hostel once or twice a week and the rest of the time just sleep in the car and shower at onsens.
I'll rent one a mobile wifi unit so I still have internet everywhere I go.
I've got a -40 degree sleeping bag that I use to go touring with along with a thermarest pad so I think I should be ok for warmth but I'll keep an eye on temperature forecasts and if its super freezing Ill grab a bed for the night.
After some research I've listed a bunch of resorts that are on my hit list. My route will be up the east side of honshu and then back down the west side so I've listed the following resorts in that order.
I'm not sure whether or not this is the best route and Im open to suggestions on ideas that might be better depending on whether there will be snow around minowa around late december for example. I'll spend more time at the bigger resorts obviously and the ones I really like and Ill skip the ones that people here think arent worth going to. I basically went through the reviews and trail maps on this website picking the ones that looked good.
so starting from narita ill drive up to:
minowa
inawashio
alts bandai
grandeco snow resort
kuriko kokusai
zao onsen
Kurobushi Kogen Snow Park Jangle Jungle
geto kogen Wagacho Iwasaki Shinden
Shizukuishi
tazawako AKITA
appi kogen
hakkoda
naqua shirakami
niigata
Joetsu Kokusai
Maiko Snow Resort,
Ishiuchi Maruyama
gala yuzawa
iwaparra
kandatsu kogen
naeba/kagura
tenjin
Okutone Snow Park
Minikami Houdaigi
Oze Iwakura
Marunuma Kogen
kawaba
Sugadaira Kogen
kusatsu kokusai
manza onsen
shiga kogen
Ryuoo Kogen
Makinoiri Snow Park
Togakushi
myoko suginohara
akakura,
seki onsen
charmant hiuchi
Kashimayari
and drop the car off at nagano.
Note I've already ridden these resorts
niseko
rusutsu
chisenpurri
niseko moiwa
saporro teine
saporro kokusai
hakuba goryu
hakuba 47
hakuba norikura
hakuba cortina
hakuba tsugaike
hakuba yanaba
hakuba iwatake
hakuba highland
hakuba minekata
happo one
nozawa onsen
madarao kogen
tangram
Thoughts?
This will be my 4th season in Japan and I've always dreamed of doing a bit of cardanchi around honshu.
I am landing sometime late december.
My plan is to hire a toyota suceed or probox from Toyota @ 120000yen/month for 2 months and drive up to aomori and then back down to nagano hitting as many resorts as I can and then probably spend my final month around hakuba or thereabouts.
I'll probably stay in a hostel once or twice a week and the rest of the time just sleep in the car and shower at onsens.
I'll rent one a mobile wifi unit so I still have internet everywhere I go.
I've got a -40 degree sleeping bag that I use to go touring with along with a thermarest pad so I think I should be ok for warmth but I'll keep an eye on temperature forecasts and if its super freezing Ill grab a bed for the night.
After some research I've listed a bunch of resorts that are on my hit list. My route will be up the east side of honshu and then back down the west side so I've listed the following resorts in that order.
I'm not sure whether or not this is the best route and Im open to suggestions on ideas that might be better depending on whether there will be snow around minowa around late december for example. I'll spend more time at the bigger resorts obviously and the ones I really like and Ill skip the ones that people here think arent worth going to. I basically went through the reviews and trail maps on this website picking the ones that looked good.
so starting from narita ill drive up to:
minowa
inawashio
alts bandai
grandeco snow resort
kuriko kokusai
zao onsen
Kurobushi Kogen Snow Park Jangle Jungle
geto kogen Wagacho Iwasaki Shinden
Shizukuishi
tazawako AKITA
appi kogen
hakkoda
naqua shirakami
niigata
Joetsu Kokusai
Maiko Snow Resort,
Ishiuchi Maruyama
gala yuzawa
iwaparra
kandatsu kogen
naeba/kagura
tenjin
Okutone Snow Park
Minikami Houdaigi
Oze Iwakura
Marunuma Kogen
kawaba
Sugadaira Kogen
kusatsu kokusai
manza onsen
shiga kogen
Ryuoo Kogen
Makinoiri Snow Park
Togakushi
myoko suginohara
akakura,
seki onsen
charmant hiuchi
Kashimayari
and drop the car off at nagano.
Note I've already ridden these resorts
niseko
rusutsu
chisenpurri
niseko moiwa
saporro teine
saporro kokusai
hakuba goryu
hakuba 47
hakuba norikura
hakuba cortina
hakuba tsugaike
hakuba yanaba
hakuba iwatake
hakuba highland
hakuba minekata
happo one
nozawa onsen
madarao kogen
tangram
Thoughts?