It was cloudy and a little snowing day in ZAO on Sunday. We left the hotel 8:30AM, and went to seeing the Jyuhyo in top of the mountain. Actually, my wife and I have been to see the Jyuhyo before, and back then, taking a ropeway what acces…

My wife's parents arrived at Yamagata airport around 8:30AM. "Welcome to Yamagata" And then we went to ZAO Onsen ski resort. We stayed this Japanese style hotel. This hotel was established 298 years ago. The outside was really old style, b…

I went to ZAO in Yamagata for skiing with my wife and wife’s parents. ZAO mountains is located between Yamagata and Miyagi prefecture. There is a ZAO ONSEN (hot springs) and a world class ski resort that many people visits in mountain Yama…

It's cold every day here in Japan. It feels like this year is a little bit colder than usual. We're planning to vist Zao in Yamagata this weekend, with my wife's parents. Zao is famous for the Jyuhyo. The Jyuhyo means ice coating on the tr…

The record snowfall hit Kanto area last weekend, but it was no problem weather in Kansai and Hokuriku area. We went to Ski-jam Katsuyama for skiing last Sunday. It was raining bottom of the mountain in Fukui on last Saturday night, but it …

Kanto area was got damage by heavy snowfall last weekend. I've just read the news about this heavy snow has caused many people deaths. We often used Chuo-high way and Route 19. And these roads, which run Nagoya to Nagano, were closed becau…

We don’t have much snow in southern part of Kansai. Actually, we have snowfall few times a year, and there is rare case snow on the ground. Today, we have a lot of snow again (Remember my blog 12/February). Last week, the around Tokyo area…

Unfortunately it had some warm temperatures in Nagano area, and it had a rain end of January. The snow condition got a like spring season. But thanks to heavy snow fall in last weekend, the snow condition in Nagano area ski resorts got bet…

You know, it had a lot of snow last weekend. I heard Tokyo has fallen more than twenty centimeters deep… I went to Nagano on last Saturday by train. The train was delayed because of heavy snowfall, my train was planning to arrive at Nagano…

Risshun (the first day of spring according to the lunar calendar) was February 4, and Setsubun is the day before the Risshun. Setsubun means a day to divide two seasons, winter and spring. And after winter, baseball is back. Spring trainin…