how much damage?

For 2 ppl total rm22,058

Flights rm2,471
Hotels rm4,147 (8 nights)
Transport rm1,830 (JR pass, taxi, train, etc)
Food, Snacks rm5,621
Souvenirs/Shopping rm1,411
Ski Rental & Ski School rm5,525
Other Attractions / Activities rm1,053

It was quite expensive this time cos the ski school was quite pricey.

once in a lifetime..ok...

but proper planning, way cheaper...

1. hotel, stay at airbnb or homestays..

30-50% of your hotel price.

or save for accomodation...work for them in exchange of .. https://www.workaway.info/

2. not so pricey...especially buy in wet market in japan...not in restaurant..



3. transport...buy day or weekly...transit card.

We went to buy waterproof hiking shoes at Decathlon SG. Mine is this one (it was on discount so I paid like 30 or 40sgd, can't remember how much exactly): https://www.decathlon.sg/p/8383618-73175-fo...272-uk_55_eu_39

I know that decathlon opened in Malaysia liao, but not too sure how well stocked they are. https://www.decathlon.my/

A note also that it depends what you plan to do in the snowy places. For walking in cities and towns that have regular snow removal, these kinds of cheap waterproof hiking shoes more than good enough, don't even need to worry about low cut / high cut. But if you plan to go hiking for a long time in more than a few inches of snow, then need to plan properly cos otherwise snow can quite easily get into the top and then melt and freeze your feet.

so the shoes you wore were really waterproof?....and you wore the same shoes in tokyo also?

Day 5-8: Myoko Kogen (Akakura Onsen) Ski'ing continued ...

After the last day of ski'ing, we taxi'ed / train'ed / shinkansen'ed back to Tokyo, and by sheer luck saw a nice Mt Fuji silhoutte.



We spent our last night in Tokyo in Asakusa instead of Kanda ... to get some nice night views of the Asakusa area!

What camera used for these ?

Dunno why people like to go Japan for skiing..
So expensive. I rather travel to Canada and visit vancouver and ski there.