aomori

Feb 1st – Travel to Aomori and Start of Tohoku Trip We were on the road by 9am to head to the Shin-Hakodate train station to take the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Shin-Aomori in Tohoku, the far northern tip of Honshu. We had to return the van to the Nippon Rent-a-Car next to the station first...

G'day Pugs, Time for the overseas ski season to finally start for me. It's been a while coming this year.... On Tuesday, I'm heading to the Tohoku region of Japan. For those that don't know, this is the far northern tip of the main island of Honshu. This will be my first time skiing outside of...