The past weekend I was snowboarding with five friends in Kagura in Niigata Prefecture.

The ski season was already almost the whole year to hear the comments of many of my colleagues in the snow. Apparently a couple of weeks ago the snow was very bad or almost no, but to learn that this past weekend was going to snow in Kagura and also had snowed in the mid-week in Tokyo, we decided that this was our last opportunity this week to go somewhere decent snowboarding.

We booked the hotel and the shinkansen at the last minute, but in the end, when we thought we had no seats anywhere Antonio we got the last room in a ryokan near the track.

I had a great time. With five friends in the ryokan, snowboarding, going to the onsen together, having drinks at a bar in the area and so on.

If ever you are wondering as are the ski slopes in Japan and want to know the temperatures and snow conditions etc, you can get all this information in English on SnowJapan .

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