We're staying in Nozawa-Onsen in Nagano. There is a big ski resort and a lot of really good hot springs. We enjoy skiing and hot springs. It's so cool.

Good morning. It's nice weather in Matsumoto. We're leaving soon.

I'm staying in Nagano with my wife and my friends. We're going to go Nozawa-Onse ski resort tomorrow. I can't wait to go skiing and enjoy hot springs. Nozawa-Onsen is my favorite one...

I went to Imajyo ski resort with my wife and her father. We didn't stay there, just one day trip. It's located southern part of Fukui, and one hour half from my house by car. It's not bad. It was good snow condition, because it had a lot o…

I went to Inawashiro in Fukushima prefecture on business last week. When I landed in Fukushima airport, there was no snow around airport, however there was a lot of snow in Inawashiro area. (Inawashiro area is located around mountains) My …

We went skiing last Sunday for the first time in this season. We left my house early morning on Sunday, and visited Oku-Ibuki ski resort by new my car. After one and half hour driving, we arrived at there. It was heavy snowing. We enjoyed …

Good evening. It was warm and rainy day…. I heard it was rain even mountains in Gifu and Nagano. It's still in the middle of December, it's cold some day and it's warm some day. By the way, we are planning to go first skiing in this season…

I bought a new car and got the new one last Sunday morning. I got the new car with reasonable price, because I traded in my old car for a new one. After lunch, we went out for a drive to break in our new car. We had a good drive with four …

I handed over my car “Land Cruiser Prado” to NISSAN car dealer last Sunday, because I traded in my car for a new car. We had driven that car for 8 years. Thank you, Prado! We will have new car this weekend. I can't wait to see the new one.

I put up studless winter tires which I had been used just one season for online auction last week, and got for 30,000 yen at an auction. We had a good auction. Thank you for a successful bidder.

It's end of November, but still warm. I know it's getting cold in the morning and after sunset… I checked that some ski resorts have already opened. I'd like to go skiing right now, but I don't get ready for skiing and winter. Our cats hav…

We visited Tottori and Shimane prefecture last weekend with my mother and wife. We stayed high class Japanese style hotel with hot springs one night. That inn provided good service and good facilities. We enjoyed dinner and hot springs. In…

We went to car dealer, NISSAN last weekend. I have a Land Cruiser Prado which I have driven for 8 years. It's a nice car, because it's a big, 4WD, and stick manual sift. However, it has a good trade in value, I decided to buy a new one. We…

We visited the “Tomioka Silk Mill” in Gunma on Sunday. It has been registered as the world heritage list by the 2014 UNESCO World Heritage Committee. The Tomioka Silk Mill was established in 1872 by the Meiji government. Tomioka was best p…

We went to Gunma, and Nagano for sightseeing last weekend. Our trip started boarding bullet train "Nozomi express" for Tokyo terminal, and changed train at Tokyo for Takasaki. We stayed at Maebashi in Gunma on Friday night. Next morning, w…

Cold is spreading now. It's easy to catch a cold in October and November, because it's hot in day time, but it cold in night time. Everyone, be careful. We're planning to visit Gunma for sight seen this weekend. We have to avoid catching a…

We went to Miyazaki to see baseball game of Phoenix league last weekend. We were originally planning to visit there two weeks ago, but that planning was canceled, because the big typhoon hit the Japan. In this time, it was nice weather las…

I catch a cold. I don't have a high fever, but have a sore throat. I'm losing a voice. I took some medicine, but I haven't gotten better yet. We're planning to visit Miyazaki this weekend, but we might have to cancel... It's too bad.

We went to Katsuura, Wakayama for sight-seen last weekend. We started our trip boarding JR express train “Kuroshio”. Actually, we bought Wakayama Pass. It was really reasonable, because it cost me eight thousand yen, with round trip ticket…

We came back to Seoul by Korean airline, A380. It was first time boarding that aircraft, and it was really huge with all double deck. We had good staying in the aircraft, because it was nice flight. We needed to change airplane at ICN (Seo…

This was the final day of our trip. We started our last day to visit Fame of Planes Air Museum in Chino airport. I had been interested in that museum, because that has a few imperial Japanese fighter aircraft. That museum corrects rare air…

We stayed just one night in Arlington, TX. We came to Orange County, CA by American airlines. It was good flight. After arriving, we picked rent a car up at airport, and then we went to House of Siloam in Lake Elsinore, CA. That's a hot sp…

When we were waiting our flight for Dallas, TX at ORD(Chicago) airport, we heard the bad news. Yu Darvish was cancelled that day's starter, because he had problem about his elbow (Rangers put on him on DL). It was too bad. We bought two ti…

After two hours boarding, we landed at MDW(Chicago Midway) airport around 3PM. Why, MDW airport?, because we choosed SouthWest airline. This flight company doesn't use ORD(Chicago O'Hare) airport. MDW airport is hub from SouthWest airline.…

It was fine day in Kansas City and also busy day. We were flying to Chicago this noon, but we had schedule to visit downtown of Kansas City. We checked out our hotel around 8AM, and then we went to Downtown by car. We visited Union station…

At around 7AM, We checked out of our hotel and headed to the SEA airport for a flight to Kansas City by Alska airline. Kansas City is two hours ahead of Seattle, and we landed at MCI (Kansas City) airport around 3PM after three hours flyin…

This was our third day in US, it was busy trip. We stayed at Edomons where is located 15 miles north of Seattle last night. We went to Future of Flight in Boeing Everett factory where is located 10 miles north of Edomons for joining factor…

We woke up morning as usual on 10. We didn't have jet lag, because slept well in the long flight. Our staying hotel didn't include breakfast, so we went to restaurant, Denny's near hotel and had a breakfast with beacon and eggs. It was so …

We started our trip from KIX(Osaka) airport, actually I worried about weather, because typhoon No.11 was coming to Japan. (Finally it hit Japan) But our flight to Seoul on 9, August was no problem. We changed airplane at ICN (Seoul Inchoen…

We came back Japan on 18/August morning, via Seoul. It's really hot in Japan, isn't it? The weather is nice in US than Japan. However, Japanese foods is better than American's one. I love Japanese foods.