Trains and buses to get to the snow

Lots of travel days when you go to different places. I don't like much about these days ,except we might be able to go on a bullet train!
And today we did- Kyoto to Nagoya which was so fast. Then another trip for a few hours to Nagano. This is where they had the Winter Olympics.
We arrived pretty late so didn't really do much- just a bit of dinner.
One really cool thing we saw was a Japanese man making soba noodles. He was so precise, measuring the thickness of the soba dough and then his big cleaver to cut them perfectly. Makes you appreciate them a bit more when we eat them!
Our next travel day was to Hakuba for some ski adventure. Not too far from Nagano but the days seem to go forever when there are buses and trains involved. We arrived in the afternoon to Hakuba, checked in and I couldn't wait to get out into the snow . So much snow everywhere! It is just walls and walls of it all around us. I wanted to run and jump into it straight away.
When I saw the skifield, I just wanted to get out there immediately. It was really clear and although it was cold, the sun felt nice and I reckon it would be perfect for snowboarding. But because it was late in the afternoon we didn't get our rental gear- we will get that tomorrow.
Our first night in Hakuba was awesome because we made some friends from the hotel. We played til nearly midnight and had an epic snowball fight outside.Read more