Jan 4 - Shiga Kogen - all mountain

This morning after our rise , gear up and breakfast we went straight to the Diamond connection chair. We then skied down and across the bridge going up Family. From here we went over into Terakoya and skied to the Hoppo Bunadaira access track. The family loved the bit down at Hoppo, so we rode the tiny egg gondola back up for another run of it. At the bottom we then headed for the gondola up to Yamanoeki. We had a quick drink break.

We rode the 11:15am bus from Yamanoeki to Yokoteyama. From here we rode the 3 chairs to the very top of Mt Yokote at 2,307m. Hubby and I went up to the balcony to take a few pics, the kids chose to stay down. The bakery was not selling any of their filled bakery items, only the soup combos, so we headed back out and skied our way down still marvelling at the view.

At 1:30pm we were sitting on the bus waiting for its 1:40pm departure back to Yamanoeki. Arriving at Yamenoeki just before 2pm we made a beeline for the gondola and to Aspen Shiga, but we missed last order at 2pm by 3mins. So we headed for the chair to Nishidateyama. From here we scooted down to the pizza place and they were still taking orders. So at 2:15 we ordered. Had another fabulous pizza and fries - the best on the mountain. Hubby was able to get the gluten free curry again. We were finished with food by 2:45pm.

From here we crossed the road to Takamagahara and went up and traversed across to Tanne no mori, up and traversing to Family, across the bridge and over to Diamond, heading up there and down to Prince, then up the quad to C1 to finish our skiing. At 4pm it was onsen time. Followed by some ice-cream.Read more