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Who's taken a trip to Japan
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Totally out of the blue, probably because I am in skiing withdrawal, but who has taken a skiing trip to Japan. How was it? How much did it cost? Where's the best place to go? Any info is welcome. Thanks.
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No one? That sucks for all of us.
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Ive been to Japan but it was August and 98 degrees F, so i didnt ski,......plus i was in a place called Ichikawadamond so there were no big mountains to ski any where close
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i've been dreaming about it since i read that story in freeskier awhile back about hakkaido. shit looks amazing
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Hokkaido is nice, I'll be in the north (Aomori/Tohoku) from november to jan doing just that. I stay on mainland honshu.
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Ah, your two best resources are snowjapan.com and wikitravel.org
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i want to soo bad, i heard the snow is good up there for really long
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lift tickets are alot cheaper in japanda then here so thats an up from the porb expensive flight cost...oh and go to the north island of hokaido for the best(I hope ur not going for park) pow
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I used to live in Japan. I plan on spending a season there.
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i would love to go to japan
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my friend spent last year there. i will try and find is article
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I need Japan in my life at some point over the next 4 years of my life.
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I lived there for a couple years.
If you live in the West, you'll probably find the skiing a little underwhelming. The lack of attitude in the parks is refreshing though.
Places to see? I think Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara) is where it's at. So much fun to be had there. Hokkaido is your best bet for skiing/hiking though. The Sapporo brewery in Sapporo is definitely worth a visit. There are loads of other places, of course.
Things to do? Other than the general seeing things and walking around, Japan is a great place to eat and drink. So much good food, and I'm a big fan of the beer as well.
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watch the untracked: japan seg from anolmaly and japan will move to #1-2 on your hit list
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^ya, japan in anomaly was SICK.
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yeah Sapporo beer rules and the food is so damn good.
I might be moving there next yr. so I've been checkin out snowjapan.com lookin' for places with good parks and it looks like Joetsu Kokusai in Niigata or Hakuba 47 in Nagano has the best parks and Hokkaido has the best pow.
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would be sick to go to japan
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im half japanese and ive got family over there, dont really visit too often tho..
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u know why japan looks sooooooo fresh and nice? cuz it is. you know why it is? cuz the japanese are crazy and treat these certain types of trees as sacred and they are forbidden to ski near the trees leaving untouched, what 3-4 feet of pow?, for the lucky ones who get to offord to go there?
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holy fuck! i just looked on expedia...a ticket costs $4,169 for a flight.....thats a bitch i think something might be wrong tho someone back me up on this haha
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Shop smart and you get round trip for
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I can assure you that there are cheaper tickets out there.
You should be able to get tickets for around $1000.
Also, FYI, Japanese airlines (and other Asian airlines for that matter) are so much better than American ones.
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best snow on the planet.......
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oh it's bonus, that;s why i don't remember it since i saw anomoly at a premier, but dash longe basically killed that movie, him and mark andre had the best segs.
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Been to japan many times. Was born there. The best place to ski is in the northern island of Hokkaido. Yes, the Japanese poeple like to do groomers all day so all you have to do is go into the trees and you will seriously have the freshest lightest pow for a few days (the australian skiers on vacation will also be in the trees). Flights to Japan are not $4000 bucks unless you're flying first class. The flights form the West coast of the US range from 600 in the cheaper seasons to about 1100 in the holiday seasons. All you guys considering to go should have a good time. Japanese people are super chill and Japanese girls love anyone who can speak english. You'll have the time of your life.
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yea dude the bonus is the FUEL tv series TGR does and it pretty much just chronicles their trip.
basically it goes..
show up in japan, meet crazy/awesome driver dude.
go to resort, get kicked out for not sking groomers (seriously)
decide never to go to J resort again.
start driving around.
see wicked cool thing to hit, thats ridiculously close to road.
hike.
realize ridiculously cool thing is under 3 feet of bottomless pow.
rinse and repeat the last couple steps for the rest of the trip.
the different way you would go about skiing in a trip to japan seems so fucking cool, just drive around and go hiking with your buds.
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I wanna make a whole ski movie in Japan. On 16mm.
Time to start fund raising.
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2nd year after college is looking like japan for me, even though i know 0 japanese.
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it looked tight like on sage's part
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Come to Hokkaido where is the most north island .
It's gonna be fuckin' awesome .
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i'll be hitting Hakuba jan-feb 08.
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Do they have terrain parks?
Anyways, pow sounds soo sick in Japan, butt if you're not allowed to ski off-piste, that blows.
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your not from Japan, the English would not translate so perfectly and you wouldn't say fuck
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who the fuck are you to come to that conclusion?
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