We visited Nozawa Onsen ski resort in Nagano on January 13th and 14th. We left our car near Iiyama station, which is just 20 minute from Nozawa Onsen. We came back my home by the bullet train on 14th and headed to Iiyama again by train on …

I saw an advertisement at the JR Iiyama station last weekend. This advertisement used Tomoyo Harada's picture. Tomoyo Harada is a famous actress, from a movie called “Take me skiing (Watashi wo ski ni turetette in Japanese) ”. This movie w…

We went to Nozawa Onsen Ski resort last weekend. Nozawa Onsen is located north of the Nagano prefecture. It takes more than 6 hours by car from my home to get to Nozawa, but it takes only 4 hours by the JR express train. I think the JR tra…

Cats likes a warm places in winter. I took a this photo on my way home.

My wife, her mother and I went to Hokkaido last weekend. We started our trip by flying to Chitose in Hokkaido on Friday night with JAL. We stayed one night at Tomakomai, and headed to the Ohnuma National Park the next morning by the JR tra…

Our skiing trip of new year has just finished. Thank you for joining our trip. I hope you have a Happy New Year.

Happy new Year 2018 This is Year of the dog. I hope the year 2018 be happy and prosperous for you. We're staying in Hakuba and enjoy the powdery snow.