Japan, again
I had a few weeks of holidays to use before the end of my VIE, and no friend available to tour Australia with me. My friend Jacques who works in Japan had told me a few months back that he had bought a brand new snowboard, and he was eager to try it on the japanese slopes, which are famous for the unbelievable amount of powder snow they get each year.
A simple phone call to Jacques made my mind, i booked a plane ticket to Japan and took 2 weeks of holidays in january. The program was pretty simple : head off to the best ski resort in Japan for a week, then explore some other part of Japan i hadn’t visited the other week.
Our ski destination was Niseko, located in far north Hokkaido, it gets an amazing 12m of snow each year. The best snow i’ve ever had for sure ! 1m of powder on the 3rd day left a grin on my face for the rest of the week.
On the second week i went to Kyushu in the south to seek higher temperatures. Nagasaki is the place i liked the most, full of history, it is a magnificent city.
This was my second time in Japan and i felt like coming back home. This amazing country will always surprise me in many forms, but i can’t deny i really love the place. I hope there will be a third time, for the snow again maybe…
As always the full album of photos is on Flickr.
