#282884 - Fri Aug 29 2008 03:04 PM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
[Re: BagOfCrisps]
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Registered: Fri Aug 29 2008
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Loc: Osaka
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First one I went to was Tenjindaira in Gunma. Small place for awesome snow, great views up there too.
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#282968 - Sat Aug 30 2008 03:57 PM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Registered: Fri Aug 01 2008
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Loc: suzaka nagano
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First place i went was yeti ski park on the slopes of mount fuji. Its really bad and crowded, but it was frikking awesome fun for me as i fell on my ass all the way down the hill. By the end of the day i was down to about 6 or 7 catastrophic wipes per run  The first real place i went was togari. I remember looking up the hill and saying to my friends "by the end of the weekend we'll be able to do that run" only to realise it was a green run and possibly the easiest run there. Ah, good times! The bus journey back to hamamatsu sucked though
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#283012 - Sun Aug 31 2008 11:52 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Registered: Thu Sep 23 2004
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Rather sad to relate, but I can't actually remember - I think it was either Kusatsu or one of the Yuzawa resorts, by road trip in February 1996. I was in a car tagging along with colleagues and just went with the flow.
We ended the day in a ryokan in Yuzawa, had a massive shochu-fuelled piss-up and went to a strip show, and then cured our hangovers in the rotenburo the next morning. Some memories are vivid, even though the names escape me.
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#283225 - Tue Sep 02 2008 02:19 PM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Registered: Tue Sep 02 2008
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Loc: Canada
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Not been yet.
Looking at taking a trip now.
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#283448 - Thu Sep 04 2008 11:00 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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#283599 - Fri Sep 05 2008 01:22 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Loc: Hakuba
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Ontake, followed by Kiso followed by Hakuba Goryu
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#283791 - Sun Sep 07 2008 12:50 PM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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#283881 - Mon Sep 08 2008 01:05 PM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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#284021 - Tue Sep 09 2008 11:46 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
[Re: BagOfCrisps]
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Registered: Tue Sep 09 2008
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Loc: japan
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Niseko. What a place to start, spoiled.
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#284707 - Tue Sep 16 2008 09:58 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Registered: Fri Nov 12 2004
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Nozawa Onsen
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#284712 - Tue Sep 16 2008 10:25 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Good place to start that.
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#284717 - Tue Sep 16 2008 10:35 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Registered: Fri Nov 12 2004
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You know it. Then we went to Niseko, and how disappointed were we? Noz is a great little Japanese town, which happens to have a ski resort above it, Niseko is a tourist trap. "The Kuta Beach of ski resorts", as someone said in these forums a couple of years back (I forget who, but the analogy is spot on). Wall to wall gaijin, hardly any hint of local culture. I'm surprised that anyone who has Niseko as their first resort ever goes back.
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#284718 - Tue Sep 16 2008 10:36 AM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they do go back, because it keeps them out of the place I want to ski...
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#284740 - Tue Sep 16 2008 12:29 PM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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Chacun ses goûts, as the French say
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#284747 - Tue Sep 16 2008 01:03 PM
Re: What was the first Japanese resort you went to?
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It's all Greek to me...
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