I visited Nozawa Onsen ski resort last weekend with my wife and her mother. Nozawa Onsen is located in the north of Nagano and has a lot of snow in winter. That village has a small population and there're many high mountains, so it's typic…

Japan has four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter in a year and also has 24 periods on the old traditional calendar. Shunbun in spring, Geshi in summer, Shubun in autumn and Touji in winter are very important terms, because they ar…

We went to Akita in the northern part of Honsyhu last weekend. Akita is a very nice place for visiting and staying because there're so many hot springs, ski resorts, national parks and amazing local foods, however speaking of Akita, it's a…

Last week was a long weekend and we went to Akita for skiing with JAL free mileages. Akita is located in the north of Honshu and it usually has a lot of snow because it's very cold there in winter. However, even Akita had no snow downtown …

We've been to Nagano for skiing during the new year vacation with my wife and friends. We were 6 skiers including me and visited Takayama ski resort and Hakuba Norikura ski resort. Thanks to artificial snow we enjoyed skiing in Takaya but …