Tokyo - Hata Wedding 23 February 2018
8 nights in Tokyo for the Imperial Wedding of the Year! Asakusa for 2 nights and 6 nights in Akihabara with Sase. 10 Packages arrived safely, and all was merry and well until Kat set off an alarm pre sake party.
7 nights in Shiga Kogen, Nagano. Thankfully picked the best resort to be in the whole of Japan for this period. Horizontally expansive and didn't even get a day or two to do Yokoteyama or Shibutoge. Pitch might be a little shallow for full on powder, but, altitude was key. Shiga Kogen probably my favorite resort on Honshu so far. Quick snowboard in the morning of the last day and straight to Haneda.
Package number 6
Got in late for some Asakusa Gyoza
Hunt around to find the Daimyo clock museum
Tokyo Museum for a day
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Found package number 5 and 7.
Success? Asakusa okonomiyaki
Ginza for hashi (and ties?)
Where do you go with 20 people for sushi? Answer: Sushi-ro. Stretch goal achieved.
Meet up #1
Birthday thunder-dolphin. 22/2, 'better than expected', 'good views', 'I'd do it it again', 'thunder dolphin, thunder dolphin, thunder dolphin'
Fish market may have moved, but still recommended to visit the outer market
100 yen Japanese omelettes
The less good to visit new fish market
D--annne
Spotted the bride
Wedding extravaganza!
With simultaneous champagne popping.
Kēki
Sake ranking
Shinjuku
Probably should visit Tokyo outside of winter one year
Delicious Japanese cuisine (at the sutamashi don don in Shinjuku)
Royal sake - until Emperor Meiji got a tasting for french wine
Meiji Jingu - contains no chocolate
Meet up #2 and farewell.
And now that Kuko is out of the country we made our way to Nagano. Oh? She's changed her plans and sticking around in Tokyo? Damn.
Room with a view
Looking over to Myoko / Madarao / Tanfram and Korea (nagano-niigata-kanto-japan-2015)
Typical breakfast
Second day snow
Giant (left), Sun Valley/ Hasuike(middle) from Nishitateyama
Hoppo Bunadaira
Skiing alone with the snowmonkeys on Higashitateyama, definitely worth doing. More spotted Ichinose Yamanokami until the loud "so, where are all the monkeys?" snowboarder arrived
Wombat - check. Snowmonkey - check.
All you can eat Nepalese? Ne-pa-lease!
Quad looking west
Pat, Jake, Paulette, Matt ripping it
Don't ski on weekends. While the bees weren't that bad weekends do get busy....
Ski on weekdays, when there is nobody about!
Skier with poles
Skier without poles
Run away with poles
P, Matt and Jake
Giant was bigger than expected, looking towards Nishitateyama (left) and Higashitateyama (right)
Monkeys attacking the hotel
Snow
Fresh snow in the terakoya area has opened, the terakoya area has opened. Memories of Nozawa four years earlier. Do not get on a lift that travels 2km/h.
Last morning first runs. 7000 VM and 135 lift points used in 4 hours.
Okushiga looking back to accommodation on the last morning
Okushiga endless free trees. A far cry from 5 years ago when the resort was skiers only!
Free credit card points business upgrade ;)
SHIGA KOGEN
Favourite Run? Black (P- Red) off the Ichinose Quad, Terakoya trees for the packed powder and Okushiga Gondala when the going was good.
Longest Run? 5.3 km (727m) Terakoya through to Giant
Fastest Speed? 80 km/h
Total Distance Skiied? 287km
Total Vertical? 49,000m
Average Rating? 4.4/5.0
Snowfall? 10 cm + 3 cm + 10 cm + 20 cm + 10 cm (ShigaKogenNow 13cm)
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