Day 1 - Gold Coast to Narita
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We stayed overnight on the Tweed before our Saturday morning flight. The plane took off about an hour late, but arrived in Narita on time. We followed our usual routine of dinner in terminal 3. ThenMeer informatie
We stayed overnight on the Tweed before our Saturday morning flight. The plane took off about an hour late, but arrived in Narita on time. We followed our usual routine of dinner in terminal 3. ThenMeer informatie
After a good nights sleep in Narita, we boarded the shuttle back to the airport. Exchanged our JR east passes, grabbed a 7-11 breakfast and caught the 9:18am NEX to Tokyo. Then onto the shinkansenMeer informatie
We started the day slowly having spent the night at Nagano Mash Cafe & Bed. It was a short walk to Lawsons for some breakfast, then back to the cafe to eat. We strolled a bit of Nagano and boarded theMeer informatie
Today we woke to a nice morning, got ready and had the hotel breakfast.
We exchanged our tickets for an electronic pass. Then hit the slopes at Yakebitiyama - the slopes of the Prince Hotel. We madeMeer informatie
After a snowy night, we woke to a blanket of snow outside the window. So after the standard hotel breakfast fare we suited up and headed out for the lifts. There wasn't really much of a queue, butMeer informatie
We woke to find it still snowing, the car park was very white and cars had about 15-20cm on them.
When we hit the slopes we experienced our first taste of powder snow. Much fun was had making newMeer informatie
We were onto all mountain passes today, which meant we could go all over the 18 ski areas that make up Shiga Kogen.
We had a small glitch with them not issuing Oscar a pass, but it turned out beingMeer informatie
It was a stunning bluebird day in the morning. After breakfast we headed to Okushiga-kogan. Here we skied a few runs, the kids loved the freeride park.
After that we lunched under gondola 2 again atMeer informatie
It was another clear day, set to get into single figures, for our last ski day. We had plans to meet up with the ski forum members at 8:30am.
From here we skied a few runs at Yakebitiyama, then weMeer informatie
We checked out, had our last hotel breakfast and caught the 7:57am bus to Nagano. (¥2,100A, ¥1,050C), arriving after 9:30am. We had time to grab some snacks before boarding the wide view train toMeer informatie