It's hot in Hokkaido. You don't need a jackets there. The real spring has come.

I'm bording the ferry boat to Tomakomai from Sendai. I will enjoy 15 hours ride!

We are staying at Yamagata prefecture now and it's still snowing today. We enjoyed powedry snow in Yonezawa ski resort and amazing hot springs at Onogawa Onsen. What a day!

12 years have passed since the great eastern Japan earthquake of March 11, 2011 and I feel time flies very quickly. Recovering from such a terrible disaster takes time, however I feel the people of the Tohoku region have made great progres…

We took a ski trip to Toyama and Ishikawa prefecture last weekend. It is still February, however it was a warm and rainy day on Saturday and Sunday. We needed to wear our raincoats at the ski resorts. I think the weather is generally cold …

My wife and I took a ski trip to Hokkaido last weekend. Sapporo is a lovely city, but we had to pass on staying there, because the hotels were so crowded and nighty rates were up to 3 times the normal price due to the snow festival. Instea…

I won tickets for the Opening Series at ES CON Field Hokkaido in March. The NPB, baseball club, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters are opening their brand new stadium this season. The new ballpark, ES CON Field Hokkaido is located in Kita-Hirosh…

We were planning to go the YAMABOKU ski resort in the northern part of Nagano prefecture last Saturday, becasue we ordered the CAT tour for powdery snow. This ski resort provides tihs tour every Saturday in January and February. The CAT ta…

We took a ski trip to Suwa in Nagano prefecture last Saturday. There was enough snow for skiing at the ski resort, but the weather was bad, because it was raining, even in January. Global warming is real! I enjoyed skiing while wearing a r…

There was the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Kobe area on 17th, January in 1995 and twenty eight years have passed since. Back then, I was a college student and out fielder Ichiro Suzuki was still playing for ORIX Bluewave baseball club…

My wife and I took a ski trip to Iwate prefecture with her mother, because last weekend was a three day weekend. It was our first time to visit there in four years. There was a lot of snow and the conditions on the ski slopes were amazing.…

The new year has started. My resolution is to improve my English. I’d love to visit the US this summer for sightseeing, because we couldn’t go to any foreign countries for last the three years due to the pandemic. I want to watch a basebal…

Happy New Year. I hope you will have a great year! This is the year of the Rabbit^^.

We went to Oku-Hida in Gifu prefecture last weekend. Oku-Hida is at high altitude and located in the northern part of Gifu. There are so many hot springs near the volcano Mt.Yakedake. It is a nice place to stay, because you can enjoy a nic…

Last weekend we took our first ski trip of the season. On Saturday, we went to Shirakaba 2in1 Ski resort in the central area of Nagano prefecture. There was very little snow, but thanks to the cold weather they could make artificial snow. …

We were planning to go to Nagano prefecture for our first ski trip last weekend, but we had to postpone it. Most of the ski resorts were closed due to the lack of snow. There was no snowfall and it was too warm last week. Some ski resorts …

At the end of November, we went to Hiroshima prefecture for sightseeing. We stayed one night and enjoyed Hirosima-Yaki. It’s very similar to Kansai style Okonomi-yaki, which is a kind of Japanese omelet. The Kansai style doesn’t contain no…

We are planning to go to Nagano prefecture for our first ski trip this season next weekend. However, it’s warm today and I think that autumn will still hang on Japan. Some ski resorts already announced opening day will be postponed for a w…

We went to Sayo town last weekend. It is located in the western part of the Hyogo prefecture. It took about two hours from Kyoto station to get there by JR train. We arrived at Sayo station around noon and had lunch there. We ordered fried…

Last weekend, we visited Miyazaki prefecture and enjoyed baseball games and the local food. Our trip started aboard the ferry boat from Kobe port. It is an overnight ferry and we arrived at the port of Miyazaki on Saturday morning. We head…

I went to Kochi prefecture on business last week. Kochi is located in the southern part of Shikoku Island and it take about 4 or 5 hours by train. So, I used FDA airlines from Kobe to Kochi and it took just 45 minutes. I think it’s the bes…

We went to Hongu in Wakayama prefecture last weekend. Hongu is located in the southern part of Wakayama and surrounded by deep mountains. We stayed there one night and enjoyed nice riverside viewing, shopping and hot springs. We bought soy…

The regular season of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) league has finished and we enjoyed it this year too. The NPB has two leagues and ORIX Buffaloes won the championship in the Pacific league on the final game. The Buffaloes, the H…

Last Saturday, we went to Sapporo Dome Stadium and watched a baseball game, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters versus the Seibu Lions. It was last time for us to visit there, because the Fighters will move to a new home stadium in Kita-Hiros…

We stayed at Sapporo in central Hokkaido last weekend and visited Shiraoi town south of Sapporo. It takes one hour by JR train to get there. In the town, there is the UPOPOY a kind of theme park where you can learn about the Ainu people an…

I have visited the Oku-Aizu area in Fukusima prefecture many times on business and as a tourist. This region is located in the mountainous area 250km north of Tokyo. I sometimes went to there by the Tadami railway line. This line is origin…

My wife, my friends and I went to Minami-Sanriku and Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on the 20th and 21st August. We stayed one night and enjoyed the local food around the seaside. On Sunday, we visited the Great east Japan Earthquake memo…

Last weekend was very comfortable, because it was cooler and dryer than in the middle of August. I think the summer is almost over and the autumn is coming soon. The weather in this summer was so strange. We often had heavy rains and very …

We had an amazing time in Hokkaido during our summer vacation. We spent almost one week there and enjoyed watching a baseball game, the hot springs, the local food, beer, Japanese sake, the nice weather and the beautiful natural scenery. T…

We went to Tsugaike Nature Garden in Otari on 17th July. Otari village is located in the north of Nagano prefecture and close to the Japan Northern Alps. There’re so many ski resorts and we often go skiing there in winter. It was the first…