In order to get to Myoko, we have to catch a bus back to Nagano to the south (about an hour away) and then take a local train north to Myoko, again about an hour's journey. Masao san, our lodge owner, met us at the station and drove up to his lodge, Canadian House, ten minutes up the road at Akakura. Lots more snow on the road sides here, mostly 2-3 meters high ally ways of snow everywhere. It reminds me more on Niseko on Hakaido with snow canyon streets winding around the place.
The lodge is nice an comfy and clean. Our little apartment (emphasis on little) is pretty good, although we've been spoiled by that great apartment we had in Tokyo! Cooking is interesting on one hotplate and no real bench space to prepare etc. We usually pull the little dining table over to the kitchen (one meter away) and use that for prep.
Japanese bathrooms are an exercise in miniturisation. They all seem to be pre manufactured, essentially a small plastic / fiberglass room with everything built in that is then placed whole into the space allocated and walled in. The loo within also, sitting on ours, my knees are nearly sticking out of the tiny door into the kitchen, very funny!
There's also a male and female onsens downstairs that are quite nice, we've had a couple since we've been here, both times they allowed us to have the onsen together as a private session because there's no other guests here during the week. Seems like it just gets busy on the weekends when the Japanese guests get out for a ski.
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