Cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Kusatsu.

Everything is a disaster all over the world due to Coronavirus now. The US and European countries are on high alert situations and other countries will get worse little by little. Japan stayed safe compared to China and Italy, but the numb…

I went to Gunma for a technical meeting last week by car from Shiga and I visited some ski resorts in Gunma and Nagano after the meeting. Our meeting went well and I had a good time in Gunma. Actually, last week after the meeting was 4 day…

We met a Japanese serow in Nagano!

Everything was canceled for me at the end of February and March, plus everything will be canceled for the next two weeks due to Coronavirus. I was really shocked because NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) decided to postpone the season ope…

Nine years have passed since the great eastern Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011 and I feel time flies quickly. The memorial ceremony of the earthquake by the Japanese government will be canceled this year due to Coronavirus. I understand…

We're planning to visit New York and Cincinnati this summer for one week. Actually, we visit the US every year and we visited Seattle, San Diego and Anaheim last summer. This summer, I'd like to visit the east coast because we visited the …

Everyday there're news about Coronavirus all over the world. Now the number of people infected with Coronavirus is increasing every day in Japan. The Japanese government decided to cancel all primary school, junior high school and high sch…

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 …

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 …