Hakuba, Japan Travel Blogs

Purple Russians

A travel blog entry by ameng

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It was night by the time we arrived at Nagano and we rushed to find the last bus to Hakuba. After a largely uneventful bus ride we were dropped off at the Hakuba information centre and we were off to find our lodging. Due to some miscommunication ...

Frenzal Rhomb Concert

A travel blog entry by ameng

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We spent the 2nd day at Happo One again, and with ominous looking clouds overhead we headed to the top of the mountain where we enjoyed our first taste of foot-deep powder in zero-visibility conditions. Those first few turns in powder are possibly the ...

Ski Trip to Hakuba

A travel blog entry by janeyinjapan

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... -price rentals (don't ask!), two meals, a ski locker, and of course, a room for one night at the Hotel Green Plaza in Hakuba. The hotel backed onto a ski area called "Hakuba Cortina", which was not the largest place in Hakuba by any means, but was quite ...

Brilliant canyoning!

A travel blog entry by anslwithers

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We've come to the ski resort of Happo One in Hakuba for a walk and some canyoning. Firstly the walking. We went up a chairlift or three and climbed up to a nice lake that still had some snow on top. Quite nice, although better in ...

How to Make Friends in Hakuba

A travel blog entry by kath_and_per

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... ould be a relatively straightforward trip turned into a 8-hour slog where we changed three or four times. We eventually pulled into Hakuba in blizzard conditions in the dead of night. Okay, it was 8pm, but it was very dark. And with Per's ...

Korean BBQ adventures

A travel blog entry by ameng

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I awoke around 10am without a hangover but feeling quite sick, possibly due to not eating anything since 1pm the previous day. There was no food left in our room and the kitchen wasn't open yet, so we decided to head into town and get lunch as nobody ...

Toto Toilets...

A travel blog entry by ameng

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... . After wandering into the restaurant area near the base of Happo we found a Soba Noodle bar – a Specialty of Hakuba. There we sampled raw horse (despite my Chinese illiteracy I recognised the character for ‘horse’), introduced ...

Onsen!

A travel blog entry by ameng

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We spent the day skiing under blue skies at Iwatake ski resort, then at night we all went to an Onsen (apart from Kus). Luckily for us the place was empty. I guess it didn't turn out too embaressing anyway, although the water was too hot to ...

Last day at the snow

A travel blog entry by ameng

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Not much to report, the last day at Hakuba was spent at Hakuba47/Goryu resort. ...

Hakuba - Pearl of the Japanese Alps

A travel blog entry by thomasmb

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The primary purpose for this post is to put up a few pictures of the Japan Alps that we saw while visiting. Hakuba is one of the skiing resorts in the Japan Alps, about 2 hours from Nagano, where the Winter Olympics of 1998 were held. There ...

Mountains and monkeys

A travel blog entry by stemaxc

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... Stieg Larsson. More than nine hours after leaving Hiroshima I reached Hakuba village, a smaller settlement outside the main Hakuba town which is one of Japan's most popular ski resorts in the winter and a hub for hiking in the summer. I called my hostel ...

My first steps in the snow

A travel blog entry by adambrownell

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Awesome place, I love you Aria Hotel and co. $60 a day for lift passes, $130 for 3 & 1/2 days of equipment hire. Huge amounts of fun, laughs and crashes...priceless! Beautiful area, 5 mins walk to lifts..couple hours from Tokyo, life doesn't get much ...

Let's Off Road

A travel blog entry by mikeyv

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So I'm in Hakuba in the Alps, there's no snow, what is there to do? Well the answer is more bike riding, although this time on mountain bikes. Pete and I set out about 10:30 in the morning, advised by Tomi who runs the hostel that a nice ride was around ...

Please let it snow! I will pay in carbon credits!

A travel blog entry by chadandmizzie

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Japan was fab - am now a strong intermediate skiier says chad, rather than lower intermediate. so loving myself sick with that Note that is all mizzie ...

Snow in the Japanese Alps.

A travel blog entry by chris.curtis

Super speedy bullet train ride to the Southern Japanese Alps stopping at Nagano before arriving by bus to to the resort town of Hakuba. Wonderful snowcapped scenery. Walked around a bit, had a snowball fight then went to ...

Japanese Alps

A travel blog entry by dam

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We decided to head to the Japanese Alps, for you can guess it snowboarding ....... oh yea. It took 3 trains and a little longer than expected, 3 trains and 5 hours. It also would have helped if we didn't bypass the station we had to get off at, have to ...

Winter Excursions

A travel blog entry by benderson8

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... time, aside from a few foolish experimental runs in the past. Contrary to my first weekend in Nagano, I went to Hakuba, which is a large Swiss style ski town at the base a towering mountain range with five different resorts. Instead of ...

Ski Week

A travel blog entry by geeijo

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Our six days of skiing provided all that I had hoped for - the few days before we arrived had been dumping with snow so there was plenty of the white stuff for us to ski on. Even on the first day we found a run with some powder snow on it - it was a ...

To Japan

A travel blog entry by mobes

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... , i got a nice surprise when I got in flight entertainment which apparently i paid for but cant remember doing at home. Arriving in Japan everything was quite dark so not much to say there, and the bus trip was full of sleeping. Finally we got to ...

First day - Happo One

A travel blog entry by mobes

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... to the ski rental shop to pick up some K2 apaches before heading to the Gondola to get up the hill. Unlike Australian ski parks, Hakuba uses a tag system where you must scan your card to get onto the lift. It was a real pain today as it meant constant ...

mont karamatsu

A travel blog entry by frdrick

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Parie en randonnee tres top ce matin car il n'y a qu'un seul train qui vas vers la station ou la randonnee commence. une fois arriver a la montagne, on doit prendre un gondole et 2 chair lift pour se rendre au point de depart du sentier. De la je ...

Fourth day: Iwatake - round 2

A travel blog entry by mobes

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Condtions today were the same as yesterday - snowing and very overcast. But not wanting to miss the opportunity, we decided to head back to Iwatake in search of some open lifts. The powder was once again thick and abundant, providing good cushioning ...

snow snow and more snow!

A travel blog entry by marshallsdoasia

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... bottom today without stopping or falling! that surely deserves a medal! andy even video'd it as evidence! he he hakuba is a gorgeous skiing village, lots of huge pine trees everywhere, snow galore and its not built up in the slightest which ...

Hakuba, Nagano, Japan

A travel blog entry by kyleitani

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Kristen and I are enjoying our New Year's Holiday in Hakuba, Nagano, Japan. We are staying at the base of the largest ski resort here, Happo One (o-nay). This resort is where they held the Giant Slalom and Downhill Ski races during the Olympics. Right ...

5 days trip in hakuba 2009

A travel blog entry by akiraka101

first day; we had to catch a bus from shinjuku to hakuba which took us 4.5 hrs to get there. when we arrived at hakuba we've arranged a pick up from the hotel that we will be staying for the next 5 days. (hotel phoenix wing) we were greeted by a nice ...

Hakuba via Matsumoto Castle

A travel blog entry by geeijo

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... trip. First up a side trip en route to a place called Matsumoto - it has a castle that is one of the better ones in Japan so we wanted to check it out. After placing our bags into a locker at the train station we headed into Matsumoto in search for lunch ...

Third day - Iwatake base and Happo one

A travel blog entry by mobes

Woke up this morning to the snow coming down in sheets. The fall over the night had been pretty impressive and estimates were that the temperature today could get to -20 with a windchill factor included. Still, the slopes are there for riding. We headed ...

Fifth day - Hakuba 47 and Goryu

A travel blog entry by mobes

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... ended up having a repeat of their ingested drinks, hanging their heads out the window as we drove through the snow covered mountains of Hakuba. The 2am return time was sure to make us feel super dodgy the next day, but without a doubt it would have had ...

Hakuba , les aples!!

A travel blog entry by frdrick

... apres une heures et demi de plus. J'ai donc fait plus de 7 heures de train dans ma journee, pour me rendre ici, a hakuba, pres de nagano, ou les olympiques d'hiver de 1998 ont eu lieux. La temprature est beaucoup plus clemente, environ 18 le jours et 10 ...

Second day - Hakuba 47 and Hakuba Goryu

A travel blog entry by mobes

Morning. Temperature - about -5. Visibility: overcast Expected low for the day: -12. Unlike yesterday, the conditions here at Hakuba took on a more darker mood as the elusive sun failed to make an appearance. Nevertheless, not wanting to be ...

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Purple Russians

Frenzal Rhomb Concert

Ski Trip to Hakuba

Brilliant canyoning!

How to Make Friends in Hakuba

Korean BBQ adventures

Toto Toilets...

Onsen!

Last day at the snow

Hakuba - Pearl of the Japanese Alps

Mountains and monkeys

My first steps in the snow

Let's Off Road

Please let it snow! I will pay in carbon credits!

Snow in the Japanese Alps.

Japanese Alps

Winter Excursions

Ski Week

To Japan

First day - Happo One

mont karamatsu

Fourth day: Iwatake - round 2

snow snow and more snow!

Hakuba, Nagano, Japan

5 days trip in hakuba 2009

Hakuba via Matsumoto Castle

Third day - Iwatake base and Happo one

Fifth day - Hakuba 47 and Goryu

Hakuba , les aples!!

Second day - Hakuba 47 and Hakuba Goryu