January 20, 2010

  • Snowboarding at kiroro, 2010

    4 of us went snowboarding at Kiroro, Hokkaido, Japan between 14-16 of January, 2010. Yes, just 3 days, short but we had fun.

    We took ANA at midnight and arrived Japan 6am in the morning.


    Arrived hokkaido at 10am, it should only take 1hr to go from Tokyo to Hokkaido, but there were some mistakes...... forget it.

    After we got off flight at New Chitose, we took a coach directly from airport to Kiroro Ski Resort.

    This lady was leading us to the coach.

    Arrived at the resort at 1pm, had some food we started playing before checking in. Friend B was warming up.

    Getting late.... looked exactly like the screenshot I had from the live cam before.

    My board, I bought from Shanghai.

    Night Ski ended at 8pm. we then went for sushi. That was so cool we had our breakfast AND dinner covered with the package we got, $5xxx we got 2 meals everyday, flight ticket and hotel room. Good deal for going to Hokkaido.

    Talking about the sushi we had.....

    After the meal we went for hot spring. It usually cost 620yen per entry, we got in free, too. that's included in the package.

    After that we went for a walk. Went look at the Piano Chapel.

    It was snowing all day long.............

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    Next day, we got up at 7:xx, had breakfast and rushed out for more snowboarding.

    Taking shuttle from hotel to ski area.

    Friend B and I were snowboarding while Mr Ho was skiing.

    Kids were cute.

    Going up the mountain. Don't be afraid, that's me.

    Went to the peak for lunch. We took gondola so Mrs. Ho could go, too.

    my gear, friend b's gear.

    Played again after lunch. It took us an hour to get down course 10 because it is so flat and the snow was so soft, the board was sucked by the snow and could hardly move.

    This is  Kiroro Dog. I got a small version few yrs ago. That's the snow man i made.

    Dinner we had roast meat. We meant to have this few years ago but it was full, we booked this time the moment we checked-in.

    this took us so long made us almost missed the hot spring opening hour. But we were so full.....

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    Last day, Mr Ho had enough exercise, only Friend b and I went SB. Final 2hrs before leaving.


    We did 3 long run, lane 15 which was over 2km long. is pretty long for beginners, right?

    Then we took shuttle back to hotel and prepare to go. We had fun here, hadn't we?

    It was still snowing....... It didn't stop since the day we arrived.

    before we went to airport, we had lunch in the hotel. Look at the course map of the resort. It was saturday hence the lifts opened earlier than usual.

    On the way to airport.

    At the airport, Mr Ho bought a crab for Mr Ho Jr as he requested for it when he drove us to airport few days ago.....

    I always liked this New Chitose Airport......  It's pretty.

    I didn't know ANA got a pokemon Jet.

    We transited at Tokyo Haneda again.

    Bye Japan~~ See you in 2 months.

    No shopping at all we saved alot.