As I wrote about in the last post, our first snowboarding trip of the season and in Japan was awesome. I can't believe what good snow and good riding there is so close to Tokyo. It's possible to day trip to Naeba/Kagura as well and many people do that. There is also some messenger service that someone told us about that delivers your snowboard for you. We might try to do that next time. We did manage ok with our bags. Kenn carried the big snowboard bag with both our snowboards and boots. I hauled the rolly bag with the rest of our clothes and gear. It wasn't bad but as you can imagine the last leg on the subway home was tiring.
So this first pic is of our room in the Ryokan-type Japanese accomodation. It wasn't really a full Ryokan (no food or Onsen), just a cheap room. We named it the "Ice Box" - enough said. Minimal, which is totally fine by us, but it was just too darn cold.
Connecting Mt. Naeba and Mt. Kagura (for same all access lift ticket price) is the longest Gondola in the world they call the "Dragondola". It was pretty long, maybe 15 minutes? It went up and down through the mountains, valleys, trees. We even saw monkeys!
This next pic is night skiing/riding at Mt Naeba Asagai Snowboard Park. This was situated about a 10 minute walk from the main mountain and where the Snodeck bar is. We were planning to ride here on Sunday but didn't this time because we were too exhausted. Trying to hit some jumps, rails or boxes at that point would have been a bad idea. (Not that I do jumps and rails but I wanted to try some easy ones).
Breakfast of Champions! We had steamed pork buns, croquettes, and coffee at the base of the snowboard park. Typical Japanese style, you pay at the vending machine which dishes out food tickets that you hand to the people behind the counter. The second morning, we had a bowl of rice and salmon! Mmmmm mmmmm..... :)
As you can see, lots of powdery snow and mountains. We had a great time and look forward to our next trip!
1 comment:
Aside from the cold room, sounds and looks like you had a great time. Bring along an extra blanket next time.
Great pics.
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