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Day 9 - Nagano

Posted by toddsara | 24th January 2007

(Sara) We wanted to go skiing, and what better place to do that than where the 1998 Olympics took place. We took a train from Tokyo to Nagano, then about 1 1/2 hours further into the mountains into the area of Hakuba. This is where the downhill and ski jumping events at the Olympics took place.

We checked into our wonderful ski lodge, the Mominoki Hotel. It's a very cute ski lodge, with wood fireplaces and plenty of hot cocoa, or for everyone else but me, hot tea. They have a ski rental shop attached to the hotel, so it was very convenient. While I have been skiing a few times before, Todd had never touched a ski before in his life. We decided that he needed a professional lesson, one preferably in English! We quickly found out that all of the group lessons were full. However,Todd was very lucky in that someone had cancelled out of a private lesson, so he was able to get a 1/2 day lesson,

Continued | Todd and Sara's 2007 Trip to Japan

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