Today we resumed our snowboarding lessons at Hiraku. An early-ish rise, saw us clothed and ‘breakfasted’ and up to the pro shop by 9am. Toni bought a knee brace and I had my right leg ankle strap replaced (kept slipping) before we made for the ski lessons. We just made the 10am start, we had […]
Continue ReadingNiseko (Hirafu) – Day1
G’day Guys, Well, today we offered up our bodies to the snowboarding gods. They promptly issued a refund. No, it was fine, we had quite a time of it. We got out of the hostel and up to the chairlift area by about 9am. We put a bag into a locker and bought 4 fay […]
Continue ReadingNiseko (Hirafu) – Day 0 [Arrival]
Today we transited from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido. We departed the capsule hotel at 10:20am and took the subway to the domestic airport (Haneda) which took about an hour. Once at the airport we checked in and ate some lunch (which was not bad, and not too expensive) before boarding our flight […]
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