Is skiing or boarding harder on your legs?
Have never tried snow board, are they less tiring to ride than skis? Also they seem to look easier in the chopped up snow. Or is it Just my imagination??
View ArticleHow many days did you ski/board this season
Now that the 13-14 season is winding up, I'm curious to hear how many days people got in this winter.
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 Ski Trip Booked
YAHOO we are all booked!!! 3 weeks Furano with day trips to Asahidake & Tomamu Asahikawa - Ice Festival - Zoo - Day Trip to Kamui Links Niseko day trips to Chisenpuri - Mowia & Kiroro....
View ArticleAnything still open this time of year?
I know I'm about two weeks late, but I'm heading to Tokyo business starting this weekend and I'm wondering if there are any ski resorts within striking distance of Tokyo that are still active? I know...
View ArticleThank you SnowJapan.
Just like to say thank you to all the people running this site, from the forums to the daily reports. The people doing the daily reports did a great job and with a little humour. I had my first trip to...
View ArticleThe 2014 Southern Hemisphere Winter Thread
It's starting to cool down a bit in Southern Oz so thoughts are turning to mid year snow fun again. I have booked for En-Zed again, A shorter trip this year - 5 days in Wanaka and 5 Days in Queenstown...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why..........Just WHY?!
Some "cutting edge" innovations here for the progression of snowboarding....... why would you want to go head first down the slope, your face a foot from the snow?? Powder......no..........smashing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tanigawadake Tenjindaira (Minakami, Gunma) - 24th January 2014
I have had my eye on today since earlier this week as it was always looking like it would clear up and be fab weather. The question was.... where to go. I found myself on the Kanetsu this morning going...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gassan, Yamagata, 2014.5.25
Last time I went to Gassan (http://www.snowjapan...magata-2014429/), I wrote, "I will definitely go back some time." So I did, today. The weather forecast looked reasonable, and I figured the snow...
View ArticleWorking in a Japanese resort
Apologies if a thread already exists for this (I couldn't find one) or if it's in the wrong section (feel free to move it). I'm looking at applying for work in a medium sized ski resort that as far as...
View ArticleShuttle Buses/Goryu
When I was planning our trip and deciding on which area to stay the shuttle buses where a big selling point for the different Hakuba ski areas from the Goryu lodges. They where great to pick us up from...
View ArticleGuess which Japanese ski resort gets the most page views on SnowJapan
Quiz! Some very interesting info/data being found as we wade through statistics and logs for the site. Which ski resorts do you think get the most pages views on SnowJapan over the last 12 months? 1 2...
View ArticleYuzawa <> Nozawa
Hey, I see there is a route over from Yuzawa to Nozawa. Is it open in winter? Cheers
View ArticleClik here to view.
Skiing on the Island of Japan?
Hello Is there skiing on the Island of Japan? How about snowboarding? What are the main places called? Is Hokkaido better than Honshu? How about Nozowa or Hakubu? Where are the top 10 ski hills for...
View ArticleHokkaido vs Nozawa + Myoko Kogen + Madarao
Last year I have been in hokkaido. I made a tour around central Hokkaido and niseko area. This year I would like come back to Japan. I search information about ski areas. I found that nozawa onsen very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A bit of help - getting the point across
On our Contact Us form... http://www.snowjapan.com/contact ...we do point out that we're not a Q&A service and that we can't answer specific questions. So why do so many people use it to send us...
View ArticleKoi Suru Fortune Cookie @ skijo
These first two were in the Guess Where This Is thread. Funny. I bet there's more out there. Let's finding.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guess Where This Is
See if you can guess where this is? If you get it right you get to post the next pic and so on..........and so on. I have made this one fairly easy to get the thread started
View ArticleClik here to view.
2015 Ski Trip Booked
YAHOO we are all booked!!! 3 weeks Furano with day trips to Asahidake & Tomamu Asahikawa - Ice Festival - Zoo - Day Trip to Kamui Links Niseko day trips to Chisenpuri - Mowia & Kiroro....
View Article