Day 3: Tokyo -> Niseko
Welcome back travellers!
After a jam packed Day 2, Day 3 is the day we head for the slopes, though skiing on them ... yet!! . First thing in the morning, we rush out to check the world's longest escalator. I mean, I was very excited at first. Could be really cool right? It was quite fun. I think the ride took about a minute. It was sort of a let down seeing it, but who else can say they rode the longest escalator eh?
Oh yeh, the first photo is of their (Japanese) little garbage trucks. Nothing unusual, I just thought it was cool. I'm into that sort of thing you know.... no, not garbage trucks, but I was in this mood where I wanted to take a lot of photos of Japanese life. Not necessarily pretty pictures, just pictures... umm... that I think shows Japan isn't just a place of pretty things, and wonder, and whatever - just Raw Japan! That's it!
Me,Cherie,Mak stopped at the Excelsior Cafe (Ikebukuro) for brekky. When I went to order, they pointed towards the menu on the front counter. They must have realised we don't speak Japanese... but nup, it's just how they order. After trying to understand what we get in the offer, I scored a Ham & Cheese crossoint (however you spell it), with coffee... or something. I remember the H&CC was served cold - I'll put it down to "that's how they do it in Japan" because H&CC should NEVER be served cold. It's not very tasty :)
Back to the hoteru (Hotel), packing, and lugging the massive snowboard bag back to the domestic airport (Haneda). Halfway to Ikebukuro station, I trade cheech his snowboard bag for mine. He reckons mine was easy. I reckoned his was easy. So we happily made it there though I started to struggle as we got closer to the ticket gates (different part of the body started aching).
At Haneda Airport station, Cherie noticed a dude in cool clothes, so tried to 'unobtrusively' take a photo of him. Obviously, she got busted (take a look at his mate staring in the direction of the camera).
Flying was pretty uneventful. Japan has lots of mountains, and snow on top of them, but what did you expect in Winter? :) I was watching the plane fly away from the main island of Honshu, and onto Hokkaido. The picture below was the first port city we saw. I assume it's Hakodate, but it could have been anything.
On arrival, the bus that takes us to Niseko wasn't gonna be here for another 2hrs. Bugger. So we sat around the airport a bit. Grabbed some lunch. After walking around the food court area (it's quite a nice food court area, but expensive - again, not unexpected). The food wasn't too bad for 1200Y for the place we chose. As we were eating, we were treated to how the Japanese like to decorate their planes. Yep, it's Pokemon!
Bus came (on time) and the trip was going to be 2hrs. So to keep from sleeping, we played a game where you had to get a certain number of movies an actor/actress has been in. Then played Charades... then we arrived. We were met by Hugo who helped us load up, meet the Bossman, Mr Nakamura - the owner of Shizenkan (our accommodation). The room we had was good. I don't I have a photo of it anywhere - bummer. If I find one, I'll post it up some time. Warm toilet seats, clean showers, vending machine, 100Y/20min Internet access, TV, videos, drying room, lounge, everything!
In our room, we had Cheech, Karina, Ari, Ken, Cherie, Mak. I couldn't wait to get out and ride some powder the next day as it had been dumping most of the night.
Till tommorrow then friends....
Oh, nearly forgot. Didn't get to meet any chicks today.... oh yes I did. Max introduced us to Emi. I forgot her name afterwards (Gomenasai!!!) ... but hey, I remembered again and I remembered now. That's what's important!
After a jam packed Day 2, Day 3 is the day we head for the slopes, though skiing on them ... yet!! . First thing in the morning, we rush out to check the world's longest escalator. I mean, I was very excited at first. Could be really cool right? It was quite fun. I think the ride took about a minute. It was sort of a let down seeing it, but who else can say they rode the longest escalator eh?
Oh yeh, the first photo is of their (Japanese) little garbage trucks. Nothing unusual, I just thought it was cool. I'm into that sort of thing you know.... no, not garbage trucks, but I was in this mood where I wanted to take a lot of photos of Japanese life. Not necessarily pretty pictures, just pictures... umm... that I think shows Japan isn't just a place of pretty things, and wonder, and whatever - just Raw Japan! That's it!
Me,Cherie,Mak stopped at the Excelsior Cafe (Ikebukuro) for brekky. When I went to order, they pointed towards the menu on the front counter. They must have realised we don't speak Japanese... but nup, it's just how they order. After trying to understand what we get in the offer, I scored a Ham & Cheese crossoint (however you spell it), with coffee... or something. I remember the H&CC was served cold - I'll put it down to "that's how they do it in Japan" because H&CC should NEVER be served cold. It's not very tasty :)
Back to the hoteru (Hotel), packing, and lugging the massive snowboard bag back to the domestic airport (Haneda). Halfway to Ikebukuro station, I trade cheech his snowboard bag for mine. He reckons mine was easy. I reckoned his was easy. So we happily made it there though I started to struggle as we got closer to the ticket gates (different part of the body started aching).
At Haneda Airport station, Cherie noticed a dude in cool clothes, so tried to 'unobtrusively' take a photo of him. Obviously, she got busted (take a look at his mate staring in the direction of the camera).
Flying was pretty uneventful. Japan has lots of mountains, and snow on top of them, but what did you expect in Winter? :) I was watching the plane fly away from the main island of Honshu, and onto Hokkaido. The picture below was the first port city we saw. I assume it's Hakodate, but it could have been anything.
On arrival, the bus that takes us to Niseko wasn't gonna be here for another 2hrs. Bugger. So we sat around the airport a bit. Grabbed some lunch. After walking around the food court area (it's quite a nice food court area, but expensive - again, not unexpected). The food wasn't too bad for 1200Y for the place we chose. As we were eating, we were treated to how the Japanese like to decorate their planes. Yep, it's Pokemon!
Bus came (on time) and the trip was going to be 2hrs. So to keep from sleeping, we played a game where you had to get a certain number of movies an actor/actress has been in. Then played Charades... then we arrived. We were met by Hugo who helped us load up, meet the Bossman, Mr Nakamura - the owner of Shizenkan (our accommodation). The room we had was good. I don't I have a photo of it anywhere - bummer. If I find one, I'll post it up some time. Warm toilet seats, clean showers, vending machine, 100Y/20min Internet access, TV, videos, drying room, lounge, everything!
In our room, we had Cheech, Karina, Ari, Ken, Cherie, Mak. I couldn't wait to get out and ride some powder the next day as it had been dumping most of the night.
Till tommorrow then friends....
Oh, nearly forgot. Didn't get to meet any chicks today.... oh yes I did. Max introduced us to Emi. I forgot her name afterwards (Gomenasai!!!) ... but hey, I remembered again and I remembered now. That's what's important!
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