After several hours on the shinkansen (bullet train), we arrived at the resort in Nozawa Onsen yesterday arvo, sorted out season passes, hit the supermarket and settled into the lodge. The lodge is pretty good, bigger room than we had in Niseko, nice bunch of people, really hard futons but! with tiny wheat filled bags that are supposed to pass as pillows!? Misch is not impressed! We'll be doing some serious rearranging of sleeping resources tonight.
Had our first day on the slopes today, 15cm of fresh powder thank you very much. Very beautiful on the mountain with lots of deciduous treas covered in snow. First impressions of the skiing are a little mixed though. There's a lot of pretty soft runs here, but the off piste looks impressive, it'll take a few days to get a feel for where it's best and safest to ski as there's some pretty deep stuff out there after many days of good snow falls! A few of the tree runs I did today were knee deep plus and I hear from a few of the guys in the lodge that there's a lot of deeper stuff out there still (apparently bottomless off the back side of the peak,
There's a bunch of photos here from Tokyo
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