Ok I follow bossku. Can save the Shinkansen cost and time also.

From Tokyo,
Shinkansen/JR to Aizu-Wakamatsu,
Scenic train to Aizu-Kawaguchi,
Stay overnight at a ryokan somewhere here,
Next day reverse the journey?

Looks damn scenic but I dunno what moi home affairs minister will think about trying to handle the baby 6 hrs train ride, 2 days in a row lol. I ask her and see 😶

Anyway Europe got expensive countries got cheap countries also bah, last year I went to Switzerland, 1week train fares alone were rm2.2k a person.

It’s a bit strange that you have your own ski gear but seem so unfamiliar with ski prices. Lift tickets are (almost) always separate from equipment rental.

Snow escalator = the beginner zone escalator. If you only plan on sticking to super beginner zone then can save money buy only this ticket.

1 day pass = all the lifts on the mountain including snow escalator

Equipment rental: separate charges https://sapporo-teine.com/snow/rental/general

This post has been edited by deodorant: Nov 29 2019, 05:24 PM

No experience but just curious, the parents gonna drop the babies off at nursery (I guess at the hotel you’re staying at) and go skiing?

Pretty much all airports around the world charge these fees de. Most airports and airlines the airline will collect the fee from you and pay the authorities as part of the ticket price (but there are a few minority places that u need to ownself separately pay).

My upcoming trip you see even miles redemption ticket also must pay.



This post has been edited by deodorant: Dec 6 2019, 01:58 PM

Salute. My baby 1 mth old I barely dare to bring him to the shopping mall across the street 😂

Not about rush, but about completeness. 4 days in Tokyo really barely scratched the surface, over my last 6 trips to Japan I’ve spent more than 3 weeks (in total) in Tokyo itself, and still haven’t seen / smelt / eaten / experienced everything.

But of course you should holiday your own way. If you don’t like Tokyo / Osaka or any other big cities then that’s fine too 😂

Maybe karuizawa? I got no experience there but from google seems doable as day trip. If you willing to go a little further and stay overnight like in Nagano / Niigata / Yamagata areas then I got more personal experience recommendations.

Chances are you won’t even be allowed to board the flight, 3 months left only leh. My mum last time Vietnam flight 5 months left also wasn’t allowed to board.

This post has been edited by deodorant: Dec 12 2019, 11:08 PM

Snow monkey park 1/2 a day then go back to your ryokan soak onsen and sleep, then next day since you’re planning to go Nozawa Onsen anyway then why not just ski there?

Are you sure Keihin operates Tokyo to Narita in addition to Haneda? Or do you mean this Keisei one?

Climate change I guess. A couple of my skiing acquaintances who decided to go Honshu resorts over Christmas were super upset with the lack of snow 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia...orries-in-japan

> most ski resorts struggling with lack of snow
> jan-mar forecasted warmer weather so Sakura 2020 also expected to be earlier than the average

“Wagyu” from Australia, US, etc is quite meaningless. Lots of producers import a cow from Japan and crossbreed it god knows how many times with local cattle and then still sell it as “wagyu” anyway. You need to do a lot of research about brand names / producers to filter out the gems from the trash.

For example Cold Storage sells lots of unbranded “Aussie wagyu” steak cuts here that have shit marbling and suck donkey ass. On the other hand, top notch producers like Blackmore (who breeds full blood Japanese kuroge cattle), their meat can easily rival anything coming out of Japan except the top producers (Kobe/Matsusaka/Ohmi etc)

Europe so big and so many countries, how to compare like that man. Eastern Europe countries probably cheap cheap.

On the other hand I took taxi in Geneva before from office to airport, around 20mins / 10km journey was SFr 45 or 50 IIRC (like rm200ish).

This post has been edited by deodorant: Jan 14 2020, 02:46 PM

Just curious for those of you here go to Japan ... how many of you use so much baggage?

My wife and I our Japan trips ... at most also 25kg each only, never more than that lol.

Nowadays weather so unpredictable. Myoko kogen when I went to ski last year, by end Jan they already got almost 11m of snowfall. This year end Jan barely got 2.5m. With this kind of winter, don’t know whether Sakura will end up being mid March or not 😂

Anyway my trip 28Mar - 05Apr, hope it coincides with peak 😂

In the time it takes you to get a response you could’ve easily googled Tokyo rainfall and gotten the answer for yourself.

Anyway Jan/Feb nice and cold but not unbearably so. I always do a few days in Tokyo around that time on my way to ski.

Had a baby in September so a bit too early 😂
Next season maybe can ski again but toddler will be too young, so if end up going then will have to dump him at childcare at the ski resort (both side parents in MY not SG so can’t ask them to babysit also).

This post has been edited by deodorant: Jan 30 2020, 11:05 AM