Nagano

We're taking a day off skiing today and heading into Nagano city. It's only an hour and 15 mins by bus / train. Should be interesting, people have recommended the Zen temple there as a must see (5-600 AD). Busy night in the lodge here at present, 20 young American students turned up for the weekend. They're all teaching english here in Japan and are having a get together and ski this weekend, actually there's 88 of them spread across 3 lodges. Things got pretty rowdy later on, but we managed to sleep ok.