We stayed at Minsyuku SWAKO last night. This Japanese style hotel has a open air hot spring bath. It was so nice. And this one has also black cat. It was great!

Today is 22/February(2/22). It's National Cat Day in Japan….

The weather forecast said it was going to be rain today in Shiga and in snow countries too. The weather of this winter is really terrible. The temperature is going up and down. I gave up to go skiing this weekend….

We stayed in down town Toyama last Saturday, and woke up early the next morning , because there was a lot of snow in the Hokuriku area on Sunday. We left the hotel aroud 6:30 AM, and went to Tateyama Sanroku ski resort. We waited line in f…

The baseball season has started in Japan. I'v never been to spring training in Japan, because I'm super busy in every weekend in winter skiing season. I'd like to visit Okinawa for watching baseball training in February with my wife someda…