Last week was a long weekend so I visited Obihiro in Hokkaido with my wife and her mother. Our trip started for Sapporo on Friday night with ANA airlines and the next morning we headed to Obihiro by JR express train. Obihiro is located eas…

This ski resort is in Nagano city and it takes about 40 minutes from Nagano downtown by car. About 22 years ago, Nagano was the host city for the winter Olympic games and free style skiing mogul took place in Iizuna Kogen ski resort. Back …

Cold air stayed in Japan two weeks ago, so we had much snow fall in the northern part of Japan. On the other hands, last weekend was warm, so we had much rain all over Japan. There was a big temperature difference between cold and warm eve…

We went to Nozawa Onsen ski resort in Nagano for skiing and finally we had 30 centimeters of snow in the north of Nagano prefecture last weekend. The snow conditions in most ski runs had come back to normal and you could enjoy powder snow …