Tag > hot spring

In the beginning of this year, I went to Nozawa Onsen village in Nagano Prefecture. The below is last year's footage, February 2012. It is famous ski resort but it is also famous for natural hot spring town. The word, Onsen means natural hot spring in Japanese. Interestingly enough, the town is not only famous for Japanese skiers but Australians, New Zealanders and other foreigners. A ski resort famous for foreigners I knew was Niseko in Hokkaido. I visited there two years ago. Then I learnt Australians there became more interested in Nozawa Onsen. That was why I...

Last week I went to Niseko Ski resort in Hokkaido, Northernmost island of Japan. The ski slopes there is famous for powder snow, which skiers can ski very smoothly even in deep new snow. I could ski like this.   The Niseko town also has good hot spring bath (Onsen). Very healthy hot bath water that warms you up after you become cold by skiing or snowboarding. But the most...