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We originally booked for Furano , through Flight Centre. However we had questions about the room e. It soon became apparent that Flight Centre knew nothing, and were simply unable to answer even these basic questions, so we dropped them. If you don't speak Japanese, and haven't been before, then you really need to organise it through someone you can talk to, and ask questions of. And you will have questions - even something as simple as 'where do I go for my ski lessons? At the same time I read through some of the Australian skiing discussion forums, and the bits of the Lonely Planet guide to Japan. Furano got generally good comments, but Niseko generally got excellent comments, so we focussed more on Niseko instead of Furano. Through google we found Niseko Ski Tours. My Dad phoned them, and it was immediately clear they knew what they were talking about. Shortly thereafter we booked with them. There are other tour operators that specialize in Japanese skiing e. Note : Baggage weight is a serious problem! We each got a baggage allowance of 20 kilos, plus 5 kilos extra for ski gear. When you add the weight of all you ski gear, the bags themselves, ski clothes, non-ski clothes, then it will be very tight to fit into this allowance, so weight everything first. JAL has a reputation for very strictly enforcing weight limits and charging extra if you go above these. I did go above them by about 3 kilos, but luckily both our flights were only half full, so they didn't seem to care too much about weight, and never said anything to us about this. Also you will want to take lots of Yen, in cash. Cash is king in Japan, and we never used a credit card or an ATM card even once, and you should assume that these facilities will not be available, and carry adequate cash with you, just like the Japanese do. I carried my cash with me the whole time, but safety deposit was available at the hotel reception. The flight out was very good - it ran to schedule departing at Kingsford Smith at 11 AM , and we were right up the front of the JAL charter plane. It was a direct flight to Sapporo - a direct flight is highly recommended, rather than transferring at Tokyo, as Tokyo has 2 airports, 1. Go direct if you can. Onboard the plane was Steve Kelso from Niseko Ski Tours, whom we had booked through, who was going on business travel to Furano and other locations to see about adding them as a destination. We found that Niseko ski tours had around 18 customers on the December charter flight, none on the January flight could not get accommodation, because the dates conflicted with a Japanese local holiday , and 6 people on the March flight that we took. When we landed at Sapporo there was snow at the airport on the ground, but it wasn't snowing. We got our luggage quickly thankfully the baggage the doors weren't frozen shut, as we worried they may be and has happened before. Whilst waiting for our bus at New Chitose Airport, we talked to an Australian who worked for the JAL airline, who was taking some reporters on a whirlwind tour, and he indicated that next year that JAL will probably continue direct flights from Sydney to Sapporo, but with a smaller plane e. Also there are supposed to be around Australians visiting Niseko this season, and there were around in the season before. Then on the bus to Niseko, there was a Japanese manager of Rusutsu a ski resort that is a bit closer to Sapporo - our bus stopped there before continuing onto Niseko. He talked to us about a lot of things, including a study done for them by the University of Canberra about why Aussies come here. Apparently there are 4 main factors that explain this:. He confirmed that the number of Australian visitors is increasing, but added that the number of Japanese visitors is in a steady decline. The reason for the slow decline in Japanese skiers is that apparently the younger generation would rather stay indoors with Internet, TV, and video games. The bus ride was around one and half hours to Niseko, and it was freezing cold when we moved our bags into the hotel, and it was snowing lightly. We had a welcoming thing when we arrived, but we were so exhausted that we didn't take it all in. Got to bed around midnight local time, or two AM Sydney time. We stayed at the Niseko Scot Hotel and more info here. The rooms are small, but the location is fantastic. The hotel is advertised sometimes has having 4 restaurants, but in reality it has 3 - a sushi restaurant, a restaurant just outside the front reception, and Gulliver's and Scot Dining which have the same staff and the same menu and the same prices, so by any reasonable definition they're one restaurant, not two. Dad woke me at 6 AM with coughing and banging and boiling the kettle, and then said in his best surprised voice: 'Oh, you're awake! Then off to our lessons, Dad in the newbies and me in the intermediate section, my instructor called Junto not sure if I'm spelling that correctly. Dad had dressed for really cold weather, and I dressed for semi-cold did not wear my fleece. The sky cleared up to a nice blue sky very rare here apparently , and so it got much warmer. Found out that Dad later went back to the hotel and took off most of his stuff because he was dripping in sweat! I was okay though. They do an amazing variety sorts of drinks here, by the way. Hot and cold cans of every variety coffee, tea, soft drinks, juices, etc. Lots of vending machines too. Then after an hour back onto the slopes no rest for the wicked! Dad skied for around 1 hour more before being exhausted and throwing in the towel. I skied for another 30 minutes finished around Our lift tickets go from AM until PM each night, but so exhausted I don't think we'll manage that for a bit! One thing that you notice on the mountain is that are semi-continuous automated announcements in Japanese over the loudspeaker system. There are also some announcements in English, and although some English announcements had a sense of humour, they rarely told you anything useful. However, you got used to it, and learned to ignore it pretty quickly. There is one in the hotel but apparently it's not a 'proper' one I think that means it's not using geothermal power to heat the water. One is being installed for next season apparently. It was interesting to try all the washing rituals, and the hot bath after skiing felt so amazingly good. Very civilized - I approve! All Australian ski accommodation needs one of these. More about the room we are in: It is decorated in a 'Snoopy' theme; Snoopy curtains, Snoopy doonas, Snoopy tissue box, and a Snoopy rubbish bin. Not sure whether to find it cute or creepy The thing with Snoopy is not a kids thing, I think it's just a theme; There is a 6 foot cardboard cutout of Snoopy in reception. I think the Japanese maybe just like Snoopy. They seem to like cartoons a bit in general in fact, and on the plane when they were saying do or don't do something, they would show it with a cartoon. The room itself is quite small, and has almost no storage space no drawers, only 4 or 5 hangers in the whole room, etc. However the view from our room is fantastic - we are in the corner of the building, and we look straight up the main Grand Hirafu ski slope in one window, and right down on the main ski lesson meeting place with the other window. We're in the second building down the slope, and from the front of our hotel you can ski to 3 or 4 lifts one lift is a beginner one, and so maybe should not be counted. It's technically not quite ski-in ski-out as you have to carry your skis about 15 metres through the car park, but its position is so fantastic that it really doesn't matter. We went for a wander in the Niseko village today, and there are two real estate shops, mostly directed at Australians. Also on our wander we found there is a whole shop here filled with 'Hello Kitty' merchandise. The weather today was really bad, after a great day yesterday. Only 4 or 6 of the lower lifts were open today, and it was constantly snowing. They said it was the worst wind of the whole season, and that this was the first time in the whole season that this many lifts had been closed. What a contrast to the beautiful conditions yesterday. We had lunch in a Japanese restaurant, and an elderly lady made us change out of shoes and into slippers. At dinner tonight, I had Ramen noodles and pork as mains, with snow crab sushi and salmon roe sushi as entree. The sushi was particularly good the seafood was really fresh and tasty. There is lots of seafood in the food here, and lots of noodles or rice you can even have rice at breakfast if you want ; there isn't much fruit in the food, and not really any desserts as such though. Then after 4 beers with dinner, Dad burned himself by spilling piping hot Japanese tea onto his crotch. The poor Japanese waitress rushed over to help him as he yelped in pain, but I think that he had had so much beer that we won't really know until tomorrow if he hurt himself. I continue to approve of Onsens The computer where I am writing this looks right down onto one of the lifts, and it's still snowing, and the forecast is that it will probably do so tomorrow as well, but the day after it is forecast to clear up. Tried calling a mobile at home with a Yen calling card that you can buy here, but the quality was terrible. Not sure if this was because of the calling card, or because of the mobile. Also tried to check my voice mail, but for some reason I could not get it to work using the calling card it would not accept the mailbox number, so maybe the Japanese phones make different tones when you press the buttons. In the morning it was snowing lightly, with almost no wind, and occasional breaks in the cloud. Woke up to a big overnight dump of 'wet powder'; Wet powder melts to water when it hits your clothing, and it is also kind of sticky, so it sticks to the skis, and makes it harder to turn. Apparently the best is 'dry powder', which is supposed to be like talcum powder, and when you hold it in your glove you can see the individual snowflakes, and is supposed to be much better to ski in. Hope I get to see some of that. However, dry powder is mostly supposed to fall from late December through to the start of February, with wet powder at the remaining ski season; However the trade-off is that during the dry powder periods you can go for weeks without seeing the sun, as it can snow continuously - me, I kind of like to see the sun, and even with the wet powder it was fun! When you get into the non-groomed areas you can have snow up to your thighs, and see it's sort of like flying through a cloud, completely unable to see your skis. Of course the illusion ends when you try to turn and get it wrong, and end up completely buried in snow! The cloud that had brought the wet powder cleared up as the day wore on, and now it is pretty clear again and blue skies. I can see Mount Yotei opposite which is basically the acid test of the weather conditions here - if you can see the base then it's good conditions, and if you can see the top then it's great conditions. There is a webcam here. Trees here are Silver birches and on the lower slopes there are some pines. No eucalyptus of course, unlike Australia. There are supposed to be some foxes, but I haven't seen any. Also there are lots of Japanese school kids on the slopes. They have big numbers on their backs, and all wear the same clothing; apparently it is a traditional Japanese school perk to get a trip to the snow in the junior school, and once again in high school. Lucky sods! Lunch was good; had a 'rockomo' meal, which was a large fried mince patty, plus creamy soft scrambled eggs, and a salad, all on a bed of white rice. It was really good and filling! I had my second lesson this morning. Unfortunately my right shin became really painful when I was doing my turns skiing down the mountain particularly turning left. I was wearing thick socks, so it could either be that my socks were too thick, or that my boots are a bad fit although they were okay on the first two days with socks that were a bit thinner. So after 2 hours of the 3-hour morning lesson it was hurting too much to continue, so I called it quits for the day and skied down to the hotel. I will wear much thinner socks tomorrow and see how I go. My feet have never been cold here in my ski boots, so the socks being thinner shouldn't be a problem. One Japanese ski saying my ski instructor told us during the lesson was: 'No friends on powder days! Especially no older friends on powder days! By which she explained that she meant that on mornings when fresh powder has fallen overnight, you want to get up the mountain early before the powder gets tracked out , and waiting for friends will only slow you down, so don't do it. Even worse is older friends, because in Japan there is a social expectation of waiting for older people; If you're older than them it's OK to go ahead, but this would be considered rude if you are younger than them - hence 'no older friends on powder days! Also during the lesson on the flat bits I was stopping gliding much sooner than the other people in the class. Our instructor got me to take off my skis, and saw that the wet powder snow was sticking to the skis. She scraped the snow off with a special flat plastic tool she had, but said that I should get the skis waxed to prevent the powder sticking. The skis are being waxed now they do it overnight here , so I will collect them tomorrow morning. My shins were hurting quite a lot today. Hopefully it's transient, and not a permanent problem with the boots. Woke up to fantastic conditions today - mostly blue skies, and few clouds and perfect skiing conditions. It didn't snow overnight, so the lower slopes were getting icy. I decide to make it my aim to try and do most of the remaining green runs on the mountain that I hadn't done yet. Chatted to an Australian couple at breakfast that came into Niseko at the same time as us with Niesko Ski Tours, called Brad and Carrie. Dad refers to Brad as a 'ski god'. They both quite enjoy holidaying in ski resorts, and from the conversation it was clear that they had visited a few ski resorts although Brad more than Carrie as he started doing this before they met. It sounded like around 20, and so I said this; Brad reckoned it could not be that many, more like 10 to So he listed them, and by the time he was done it was I pointed out that he had to add one for Niseko, thus making it 21! Carrie is more an intermediate skier though, which was good because they asked me if I wanted to come with them that morning, and I didn't want to hold them up, so I said yes. We set off from the main village where we are staying base of Grand Hirafu at We took two lifts up the mountain, high enough for the conditions to change completely as we entered the low lying cloud, and it got much cooler and visibility dropped to around 15 metres. We traversed into the Higashiyama resort area, and then took another lift and kept traversing into An'nupuri resort area. Then we took Green and red runs down the mountain a red run here is the equivalent of a blue run in Australia; Green is still called green, and black is still called black though. An'nupuri is kind of like Blue Cow especially Pleasant Valley - it has wide, gentle runs; but the runs are longer than Blue Cow, and there are less people over a larger area. It was good, so we took the main An'nupuri Gondola up, and did it over again. Then we stopped for a coffee break at a small wooden building called the 'Paradise Hut'. Carrie said it reminded her of having coffee after the Merritz run at Thredbo of which she approves. The perspective on Mount Yotei is also very different from An'nupuri, because you have wrapped around the mountain more. Overall, I really liked An'nupuri, and would rate it well as I would also for Hirafu. Then up a series of three individual lifts took us right up into the cloud cover again, and we glided down to the 'An'nupuri Hut' for lunch. I had the miso and pork and potato soup with rice cakes. It was okay, but Brad's choice for pork cutlet and gravy and rice was the clear winner; I suspected it would be, but I had that meal before, and wanted to sample as many new Japanese foods as possible. At this point we had crossed back into Higashiyama, which took us one resort closer back to base. We worked down the one main green run of Higashiyama, which is basically a winding road. I found the upper two thirds of Higashiyama to be steeper than I had expected for a green run. The lower third was one long full-speed-no-turns-or-you-will-walk run that takes you to the doors of the Niseko Higashiyama Prince Hotel, a modern semi-high-rise hotel located all by itself, away from the main village so if you stay there you'd be eating in the hotel every night most likely. By this time Carrie and I were truly knackered I could feel my thighs starting to cramp up and tremble. So we decide to take the free mountain bus back to home base, but Brad wanted to ski on. So he took the Prince Gondola, which located just outside the Prince Hotel. We took the Gondola up too because we had time until the bus, and I wanted to take the Gondola to check out the ride. So at the top we took some photos, then took the Gondola all the way back down again. Started to talk about ski lift accidents, and realised that Carrie suffers vertigo and fear of flying, so I was asked to please talk about something else! Then we wandered around the shops in the lobby of the Prince Hotel for about 15 minutes, before catching the bus. The bus is just a normal bus. They really need a bus with ski racks on the side, because if you are medium-tall western male in a bus carrying skis of the appropriate length for you, then it is almost impossible to transport these on a normal bus. Got back around PM, and I was really tired so I flopped out, with the plan of rendezvousing in time to try and catch the sunset over the mountains later in the day. Phone rang around 5 PM, and got all the ski gear back on and went back up to the top to mountain. It was much cooler, and the wind had picked up. The clouds unfortunately came in a bit, and we didn't get the pastel sunset that Brad has seen the day before. Skied until around , then back to the hotel to rendezvous with Dad for dinner. We had sushi at the restaurant in the hotel. It was really good and a real experience much better quality than Sydney, and half of the things were things that you would probably never get. The sushi here is both better quality and a wider variety of stuff; Octopus, mackerel, tuna of course , beef, sea urchin, salmon roe, and many other things that I am not sure of although I think no whales or dolphins were harmed in the making of this sushi. The other people that booked through the same travel agent look to all be staying in the same hotel; They took the same flight out, and will take the same flight back, and are staying at the same hotel, so some days we have a little chat each morning about what we did yesterday or what we doing today, or whatever is our minds. The weather here today was pretty bad; it rained rather than snowed, so everything got soaking wet. The hotel really needs drying room, but doesn't have one. Also there was low cloud so the visibility was bad, and at the top of the mountain it was the worst of all worlds - windy, cold, and snowing with snow that melted very rapidly, leaving you wet. However when we got higher it was much colder that at the bottom of the mountain as Carrie says 'it's a whole different mountain up there', because it changes completely by becoming more extreme when you go up a kilometre in height. We kept going though, determined as ever, and started out OK. Hanazono's green run starts off as a long flat bit, and has another long flat bit at the end. However in the middle it has a bit where it gets fairly steep, and on this bit Dad misread the run and thought it would flatten out, so he went straight ahead, and picked up a huge amount of speed in a short distance; Since he is can currently only use snow ploughs to stop and turn, and snow ploughs basically stop working at high speed, he couldn't control himself and veered straight towards the trees. I could only watch in horror as he went full speed, head over heels into bank of snow and towards the trees. His skis went flying, and he rolled 4 or 5 times down the mountain. By the time he was done his skis were about 10 meters behind him, and I picked them up and asked him how he was. Nothing was broken, but he was pretty shaken. Hanazono doesn't really have much there, we found. The restaurant is too far away from the lifts about metres, which is too far in skis if you have to skate it. So Hanazono seems much weaker to me than the other resorts. Hanazono is currently pretty basic, and its connections to Hirafu are pretty weak. Also the bus to and from Hanazono is pretty rare - it only has a bus link twice per day around and , but were there around AM. So this made it necessary to ski back from Hanazono, which we would have been better not doing. The free shuttle bus really needs to cover Hanazono as well, but doesn't currently. After a break at Hanazono we continued on, trying to get back via a green run. In retrospect, we should have called a cab or something for Dad. We took the lifts up the mountain, and then took the 'Holiday' run back. From the map, it would seem to be ideal for beginners because it is green with a good angle, and is nice and long. However in reality it has bits that are too steep for beginners, and long sections that are so flat and long that you run out of speed. The result for a beginner is alternating between terror and boredom! On the run back Dad was really tired and just wanted to get back to base. He fell over several times more had lost confidence at this point I think. The visibility was terrible about 10 metres , and he was completely soaked from falling over, and from the rain. Pretty miserable and wet we got back. Then we had a really hot onsen, which helped. By the way, we found out today that there are some mixed onsens here, which contrasts with the gender segregation that seems to be the norm; However although Japanese girls are up for it, by all accounts the Aussie girls are for the most part too conservative to give it a go! Then I had a snooze for a few hours, before we went for our sushi dinner. Before this, we watched about 15 mins of Japanese TV for the first time since we got here. Of course we could understand nothing that was said, but you can get the general idea from tone and body language and especially the set and visuals. They had a program on about holidaying in Dubai a Japanese person who went there in summer would be in for a shock - it's easily hot enough to fry an egg on the pavement, and massively humid too , and a show all about seaweed the foods they made from all that seaweed all look very unappetizing, such as seaweed and spaghetti and nothing else , and a chat show, and the news. The weather in Okinawa looked good, but if I've got our location right, we're probably in for snow overnight. My shins today were still pretty sore, but I still can't tell if it is a permanent problem with my boots, or whether it is something you go through in the process of breaking in new boots. My main worry about tomorrow though is Dad, so we'll see how he is tomorrow and keep him to the green runs he knows. I don't think that he will go to An'nupuri now, which is a pity because I think he would like it. I would have thought it was more, but maybe they tend to go at similar times, or maybe I just notice the Australian accent more. They have a world wall map in the Hanazono cafe, which says 'please add you name and mark where you are from', and there are a handful of Americans, a few Europeans, almost nothing from the rest of the world, apart from Japan and Australia which were both almost black with people writing their names and marking where they were from - so I guess that gives you a pretty fair idea of where most of the visitors here are from. Tonight we had sushi again for dinner, but with a large helping of sake which tasted surprisingly good , and tried some different things from the menu, including fried sushi only very lightly fried , special roll which was huge and had sashimi inside it , and salmon rice ball basically a large ball of rice with a very small amount of salmon in the centre. I'm typing this up in a cafe type of area, and there is a kind of corporate hotel celebration happening around me. I'm trying to not be noticed! Dad made the observation that in Japan it is socially acceptable to be totally smashed, whereas in Australia once you get too drunk people generally start suggesting that maybe you want to slow down Also Niseko is currently in the middle of a real-estate boom, driven totally by Australians. The Japanese, who are just coming out of 15 years of almost no growth, largely caused by a property bubble they experienced, seem to think that the Australians are nuts paying such inflated prices for property. There was no snow overnight, so the conditions started out pretty icy as it was yesterday's snow, but compacted up. Then in the morning it started snowing, and continued to snow lightly all day - I'm just happy as long as it doesn't rain, which it didn't! By the way, there is no artificial snow making equipment here, which something that I had noticed that's different from Australia. Dad wants me to add that the bathroom in our room is a little plastic modular thing; it is 6' 3' tall. The bath is 4' long, but deeper than a normal bath. Most people we suspect just shower or use the onsen. So when it's snowing and dark and windy outside, it often makes much more sense to just eat in the hotel. Some lifts are beginning to close early now, as we are getting to the end of their ski season e. In general early March seems to be a lot closer to the end of the season than we thought. This also evident in the raining rather than snowing that happened yesterday. Also for the lessons if less than 3 people go for a given level, then the lesson only runs for 2 hours instead of 3 hours. This morning I had a private one-on-one ski lesson, with a Japanese instructor called 'Katz'. I think his full name was Katzumo, but evidently people remember Katz, so that's what he uses. It wasn't supposed to be a private lesson, but only two people turned up for our level, and there were two instructors, so private lessons it was! Katz gave me some things to remember to try and improve my skiing, which I note here for my future reference:. There were far more people on the mountain today. This is because it was a Sunday, and it wasn't raining, so people who live in Sapporo drive the 1. Makes sense to me. I asked my ski instructor about Furano which is the ski resort in Hokkaido we were originally going to go to. He said it is the same size roughly as just Grand Hirafu. Niseko is apparently the biggest ski resort in Hokkaido. Furano and Rusutsu apparently are probably the next biggest resorts. For lunch we ate at the J-First hotel. Dad and I both had the Yakitori set, which is kind of like Teriyaki chicken. It was very tasty, and good value, and in a good location, with a huge restaurant, which was completely empty apart from us! I guess everyone was up on the mountain. The mountain that we are on has another resort next to An'nupuri - it's called Moiwa, and but it not part of the resort that we can use, or connected to it, and it only has 2 lifts. Only reason I mention this is I saw the lifts one day, and wondered what they were, since they weren't on our trail maps. For dinner, I had raw Japanese-style tuna, plus a whole raw egg, served over hot plain rice - yummy! Dad had a crab hotpot, which he enjoyed. The snow is currently building up into fresh powder, so the conditions should be great tomorrow and I should probably get going early; Especially so as our lift tickets expire tomorrow, at pm on the dot. So I intend on boarding my last lift for the day to the top of the mountain at PM, and then skiing all the way to the bottom! The last full day of skiing. Skied from AM sharp to 3 PM. Headed over to Higashiyama to get to some runs I hadn't done yet. After doing that, tried to board the Prince Gondola to get up the mountain and out of the resort. I was sitting in the Gondola and the doors had closed when there was an announcement in Japanese. I was then pulled out of the Gondola, and someone explained that due to high winds the Prince Gondola was being put on wind hold. There was no other way to get up the mountain, so it was either a bus across to An'nupuri, or a bus back to Hirafu. I checked inside the hotel, and An'nupuri was shut down too all but two lower lifts were closed. So I had a 50 minute wait for the next bus to Hirafu, and chatted to some snowboarders from Canberra. Coffee and tea were overpriced at the Prince Hotel Yen for a coffee, which will buy a Large Draft beer in a restaurant in Hirafu , so I just used their vending machine. Of course everyone else wanted out of Higashiyama too, so when the bus finally arrived I had to stand, and most people didn't even get on the bus. Standing for minutes in a stinking hot bus in ski gear, stooped over because it was not tall enough, was not at all fun. I got out at the first stop just to get out of the bus, and double-timed it over to the Hirafu Gondola, and straight up to Hanazono. It was freezing up there - roughly to C according to the large thermometer at Ace Hill. I started to get frostbite in my hands because my gloves got wet. Started to really want better gloves - leather is the best material apparently - with a much longer wrist section to give a good seal over the ski jacket. Whilst waiting in the lift queue, an elderly Japanese guy pushed his way through the queue to the front, and on my lift, and the lifties didn't say a word and just let him through. He sat on the chairlift next to me for a few minutes picking his nose seriously , and then started talking to me. He was actually quite an amusing guy - he was 70 years old, and had started skiing at He didn't like powder, and much preferred to ski on ice. And every Japanese summer he travelled to New Zealand to ski. He quite liked New Zealand's Coronet Peak ski area, because he said it had lots of ice, and he had knick-named it 'Concrete Peak'! Then straight down the mountain, and back to the hotel at PM, and then change, and then onto the PM bus to Kutchan, the local major town the equivalent of say Jindabyne. The streets of Kutchan were completely covered in snow, unlike Jindabyne most of the time. We looked at the 3 ski shops in Kutchan. Some of the gear was good prices, but the sizes were all wrong e. Dad found the same thing with ski pants he wanted some with suspenders. Also there was a poor choice of gloves, which surprised me a bit because I would have imagined that anyone living in Hokkaido would want about 6 pairs of gloves. Who knew that you could buy 4 litres yes, 4 litres! Then at 6 PM we got the free night bus back to Hirafu, and had dinner at the hotel - we both had sukiyaki beef, which is beef strips in a sweet broth, which you dip in raw egg, and then eat with rice. Very nice! A day of logistics! Checkout of hotel, then half a day of skiing, then onsen, then lunch, then bus to Sapporo airport, then overnight return flight to Sydney. The powder today was fantastic! It started snowing again yesterday, and continued snowing overnight, and did not stop. We bought 5 hour lift passes for Yen, and skied from lift opening at AM sharp, through to midday when we had to stop in order to prepare for the bus. Skiing powder again was great! Had skied a bit of powder earlier in the week, but this was deeper and dryer powder and untracked. It is harder to ski in powder deep powder slows you down more, and powder in general makes it harder work to turn. I fell over many times in powder because of this, but it is completely painless because the powder cushions your fall. At one point I headed into a bank of deep powder, and was being followed by two Aussies who were clearly quite good skiers. I stacked it completely when I tried to turn, and as I dug myself out of the deep powder one of them gave me the thumbs up as he skied past, and yelled out: 'Good one! Then we went straight from skiing into the onsen, and then changed into street clothing for the journey home, and packed away ski gear. Dad and I had final lunch with Brad and Carrie; Dad had sushi his personal favourite , and I had port cutlet and rice my personal favourite. I slipped and fell in the parking lot on black ice for the second time - this is in addition to other people Dad, Carrie falling there on previous days. The most dangerous part of the whole trip wasn't the skiing, but rather the damn black ice in that car park. The bus back to Sapporo took 2 hours and 10 minutes, and it skipped Rusutsu because of the snowy weather conditions. The route took us past Lake Shikotsu which we had not seen on the way down when we were travelling at night. Sapporo's New Chitose Airport has a food section with lots of stores on the arrivals level. This includes fresh seafood hairy crabs, ordinary crabs , chocolates, sake, and various touristy knick-knacks. After checking into the flight, we bought various things dark chocolate, green algae 'pets', some chocolate corn sweets, some local beers, some more sake, some Choya Umeshu. On the plane we spoke briefly to Steve Kelso, who had been the tour organiser, and who was returning from visiting Furano and other locations. Asked about Furano as it had been our first choice of location, and he said that Furano is a fairly straight forward ski field with some great runs, and one pass covers the mountain. Furano is a different experience to Hirafu. Off-piste is currently prohibited but with signs of some lessening of the rules. For the heavy-duty guys wanting ungroomed snow, day trips to a couple of nearby resorts including Asahikawa are appropriate. Had 3 beers on the plane, and then took a Valium that Dad had brought especially for us for the flight back so that we could sleep. I dozed in and out of sleep, and maybe got 4 hours sleep before they turned on all the lights about 1. Our approach took us over the city and then Botany Bay, landed around AM. After clearing immigration and customs, and joining the taxi queue, we immediately noticed the humidity. Good to be home, but also feeling sad to not be on holiday at Niseko any more. Jump to: navigation , search. 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Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen. Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers. Snow Cams. Active Threads Search forums. Log in. Active threads. Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search Advanced…. Members Registered members Current visitors. Toggle sidebar. Install the app. There's more to this forum than meets the eye! Join today. Register to remove the ad below Join today. Forum Ski Travel Japan. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter snowgum Start date Jan 3, Register to view full-size images Join today. Ski Pass. May 4, 10, 10, vic. I plan to mix the Niseko skiing with some side trips not just Rutsusu - preferably during less arduous weather. My question: If I wish to drive to a Sapporo metro terminal, is Route 5 the best, safest route to take? If Route 5 is the clear choice, I may just look around Otaru sounds good or I could catch a train from same for a sneaky hrs in central Sapporo. Thanks in advance for any tips. Goski Live long and prosper Ski Pass. Jul 25, 2, 4, Melbourne. Note that the driving time from Otaru to Sapporo without tolls is only 15 minutes more according to Google Maps. May be more scenic. Also the driving times from Niseko to Otaru are coming up about the same for the toll roads vs the non-toll roads. Whether or not a non-toll road route is clear enough of snow is something you may want need to check before if you want to go that way. Having never driven there either, I'll be learning the way too. Reactions: snowgum. Nov 14, Goski said:. Click to expand Sapporo Municipal Subway — Sapporo Station. I didn't drive but caught a taxi from otaru to chitose bit further than sapporo , the taxi went through lots of tolls and I have no idea how much they cost but there were lots. This was late December just past and even then it was dicey with the amount of snow and ice on the roads. I wouldn't suggest it at night which by now it'll be dark at like 4pm. Reactions: skifree and snowgum. Nov 30, 1, Sydney, NSW. Jan 19, 19, 47, Canberra, ACT. Reactions: Hermannator. DidSurfNowSki said:. If you're going to drive to Otaru, why not hit up Kiroro via the road for the morning the road down is OK and then be in Otaru for late lunch - and can then come back via the 5 route road if you prefer? Cheers, yes, I was thinking of trying Kiroro one day. Break up the yo yo factor - it can hit pretty hard but powder minimises The lurgy and delays the onset. It could be a big day late, dark return , combining town an slope? Leave 8am for Kiroro first lifts at 9am. Four hour lift pass and bail at midday. Be in Otaru by 1pm, check out canals and have lunch. Leave Otaru at 3pm. Be back in Hirafu by 4. With a Two-week rental, I might be using quite a few toll roads. If you mean the ETC toll tag , you can normally request one with your rental car w. Hermannator One of Us Ski Pass. Jul 9, 4, 4, The 'Gul. Reactions: DidSurfNowSki. Hermannator said:. You'll be fine From experience, take and 5 this is where the car GPS took me, don't trust google wholeheartedly. The latter is freeway and benign. Aside from a shortish climb out of the Otaru area, once you're up on the plain the driving is much like Omeo-Hotham. Google is your friend here click the directions 'by PT' button - that train is slow as a wet week, I wouldn't bother catching the train from there, just drive further in. But really to solve this properly, where do you have to drop the car off? Again, the train trip from Otaru to the airport is loooonnnnggg Note: many roads in Hokkaido are permanently closed in winter, so don't be tempted into shortcuts Hope that all makes sense. Kianga Hard Yards. Oct 14, 10 16 You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads J. Driving in Hokkaido. JuniorJunior Jan 27, Japan. Replies 5 Views 1, Jan 28, sourmash. Canuckskier Aug 9, Japan. Replies 12 Views 1, Aug 17, sourmash. Advice needed Otaru Based Mini-Trip. Lonepeak Oct 22, Japan. Replies 11 Views 1, Oct 28, Rabid K9. Share: Share Link. Log in Your name or email address. Password Forgot your password? Stay logged in. Top Bottom Back.

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