Skiing in Hokkaido
Last weekend I went skiing with my job partners in Toshiba 東芝. We went to the Rusutsu Resort (ルスツリゾート) in Hokkaido (北海道), the biggest island of Japan (in the North).
This place is next to the Yotei-san mountain (羊蹄山), very similar to the Fuji-san mountain but smaller (2000 m).
The Yotei-san
I really had a good time there, these Japanese people can be very funny, and they are always very very nice with you. The language is still a problem, when they start talking in Japanese between them maybe I could understand barely a 10%-20% of what they said, but I’m already happy with it. I think that three months ago I wouldn’t understand a single word.
They say that Hokkaido has the best sky slopes in Japan… but… I don’t know… for me the ones in Andorra are yet much better (and also they say that the Alps mountains are much better).
There were some foreigners in the slopes but most of the people were Japanese, as in everyplace in this country except of Roppongi. I have a video, skying down a slope that I will try to upload and link here.
After skying, dinner and ofuro time! Wow, the ofuro was so great! A big space with a big pool filled with really hot water. So nice after a cold day in the mountains…
We slept in the cheaper rooms of the hotel, japanase style rooms with tatami and futon (the whole was confortable).
About the food, the first night we had a really funny japanese style dinner with a lot of sushi, tempura, and beer! (Hokkaido is famous for the sushi).
Shinohara-san going towards the rest of the group
