Tag: travel: Japan
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Marukame, Hakuba, Nagano, Japan
Richard and I finally joined the rest of the guys out for dinner in town tonight, the last night of our ski trip. It’s yakiniku time! The hotel was kind enough to take the six of us to our restaurant of choice tonight: Marukame (まるかめ) — a sumibi yakiniku place about a 5-minute drive away…
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Japan Ski Trip Mar 2014: Misc Food Photo Dump
I wish I had kept a better record of the various other restaurants we visited on our ski trip in Ishiuchi Maruyama other than the meals we had at the lodge we stayed at, or that Italian restaurant we visited near the summit. For now, this photo dump with captions will have to do!
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Japan Ski Trip Mar 2014: Ishiuchi Maruyama, Niigata, Japan
Not even two months after the previous ski trip at Nozawa Onsen, the friends in Japan organised another one, the last trip of the season. It made sense for them to go because they’re from Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore; I was the only silly person who flew all the way from Sydney again. The…
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Garden Villa Ishiuchi, Niigata, Japan
For my second ski trip, we went to Ishiuchi Maruyama and stayed at Garden Villa Ishiuchi (ガーデンヴィラ石打). The lodge was only a 10-minute taxi trip from Echigoyuzawa Station (越後湯沢駅) and was located very close to the ski fields (5 minutes of walking?), so we never wasted any time travelling to and from the place. We…
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Balena, Ishiuchi Maruyama, Niigata, Japan
Balena (バレーナ) is an Italian restaurant near the summit of Ishiuchi Maruyama (石打丸山) that required skiing to and going up several ski lifts, so it wasn’t quite an everyday restaurant that I could just pop in to try. The group had been there before and told me the food was really good; actually, they used…
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Japan Trip Reflections and Photo Dump
Miscellaneous Photo Dump First, for great justice, miscellaneous photos of the trip that didn’t make it into specific entries. Table of Events Because I’m organised like that. 8 Jan 2014 Day 1 We arrived in Tokyo, checked in at Hotel Villa Fontaine Ueno, and had dinner at a CoCo Ichibanya nearby. Crappy rainy weather in…
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Japan Trip Day 7: Last Day
It is the last day of our first trip in Japan. I will really miss this…