On the morning of December 11, 2018, my son and I walked here from your nearby hotel. We first rented our snowboarding gear here. The receptionist spoke good English and we got what we needed.

We wanted to booked a snowboarding here but it was already full in the morning. Booking for afternoon classes began at 12:30 and we booked a 2-hour 2-person snowboarding class at 13:45 costing Yen 26,000. Our coach was Mananbu and he was excellent in coaching me (64) and my son (20) that we retained him again for another two hours on December 12, 2018.

He coached us from wearing the gear to the many basic skills in snowboarding. Not only that I could stand up and do heel sliding, I picked up toe sliding on the second day. As to my son, he was probably Mananbu’s best student, being able to enjoy snowboarding during and after the second lesson.

We re-energized ourselves by having drinks or food at the New Sanko Restaurant on 1/F. They were of high standards and so were the prices. At G/F, don’t ever attempt to intrude into the restrictive area (I did because I bumped down others’ gears put around it and wanted to put them up), as I later observed that chunks of ice would fall off the roof!