Tokyo

Fantastic!! Looking forward to seeing pics.

Stay safe brother!

 

SAVE THE WHALES

 

I love dolphin fish

 

Great city and food... while I don't condone the way whales are caught, I don't get what's so 'barbaric' about eating whale compared to baby sheep, cows, bunnies, ducklings etc?

 

any pics goober

 

Hunting species to extinction is the issue.

That's the only difference. Show that hunting will not endanger the animal, then you can go for it.

 

Yep,I agree.
Last night there was a Billy Connely programme that depicted the Inuit shooting a seal for a feed,poor Billy got upset,mind you he did say that their are 5 million or more of this type of seal.
He said he understood why they did it but did not 'get' it.
He then gave the example that 'we' get our meat from the butcher,well hello 'our' meat was once a walking talking(mooing,baaaing etc)animal and probably unavailable in the near north pole.

 

Goobs, very cool but why?

 

Have to be going to or coming from niseko.

 

Heading to Niseko for some snowboarding myself in Feb, plus a few days in Tokyo. Any recommendations?

 

Harajuku on a Sunday is awesome, lots of people dress up all crazy, and its a fun place.

Akihabara, is great to go and look for electronics, hobby & model shops (not like they are here) & Maid Cafe's

Kabuki Cho: red light district good fora wander through

Roppongi: feels like your in america, if you wanta break from the Japaneseness.

you could go to Shibuya station and see the worlds busiest internsection (you seem to see pics of this thing everywhere, so some people may find that interesting)

Tsukiji (dont know if i spelt that right) fish markets are good to see if you want to get up early


and if you are there for a Saturday night, get an international license and hire a car. then drive to Dakoku Futo after midnight and go check out the cars in the carparks at the docks, its awesome.

Cheers

 

You bastard, I hope you break a leg.........



On the last run of your holiday of course.

I was there jan last year. Can't go this month but will be back there jan 2012.

 

Thanks Looney, good stuff!

I'm a brilliant snowboarder, won't happen! (famous last words)

 

You been to niseko before?

 

Nope, first time to Japan. Been snowboarding in Europe, US and Canada before but heard the snow in Niseko is pretty much as good as it gets.

 

like anywhere the first run in the morning is the best before the masses arrive. enjoy the sun before you go, there isn't much around. night skiing is good too, the snow dump means no tracks from previous skiers but it's very cold.

take YEN as the resturant half way up the mountain doesn't take credit card, only cash.

you'll stop at this place on the bus between sapporo and niseko. the chicken kebab looks like chicken, smells like chicken and tastes like chicken, no ill affects after eating so all good.
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night skiing
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single chair chairlift at the very top.
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all the students wear the same outfit with different numbers. all of them can't ski.

and a look out one of the windows from our apartment.
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Awesome, thanks for the tips. Pics make me want to go right now, sick of this 35-40C weather anyway!

 

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Harden up!