Heading Home!!!

It’s Saturday the 21st and we are heading back to home today!! Yaaay!! I woke up after a good 12 hour slumber feeling slightly normal again…phewww, thank god it was only a 24hr bug or something! Lisa was feeling much better too, but her stomach and rib muscles were so sore from it constantly cramping. [...]

Day 16-17 Osaka City- Lil’ Tokyo

It was a beautiful Thursday morning as we arrived into the shin-Osaka terminal and by this time i was starting to get a bit over the traveling and started dreaming about snowboarding again!! hahahaha I think i was just exhausted from lack of good sleep, missing the boys at home, worried about work and uni [...]

Day 14-15 Hiroshima- City of Peace!

*Sorry for the delay in the last few posts, I was struck down with food poisoning whilst in Osaka where I had hoped to have wrapped things up but i was too ill!!* It’s Monday morning the 16th March and we all gingerly woke up to what was going to be another action packed day. [...]

Day 11-13 Kyoto City- Old meets New!

It’s Saturday morning on the 14th March and we are all set to go to Kyoto via the Shinkansen for the very first time…how exciting!!! After a quick stop at the local maccas for breakfast, we headed into the subway to get to Tokyo station and transfer onto the JR shinkansen terminal. Firstly I would [...]

Day 8-10 Tokyo City!

It’s Wednesday the 11th March and its time for us to go back to Tokyo for 3 nights. It was such a bummer that we had to leave on a day like this as last night it snowed and snowed leaving the softest snow you could ever imagine. It was so lovely watching the snow [...]

Day 7 – Our Last day in the snow.

As they say ‘All things must come to an end’, it was our final full day of snowboarding and it was kind of sad to know that; but it didn’t stop me from trying to get the most out of it before we head back to Tokyo for our sightseeing leg of the trip. Everyone [...]

Day 6- Getting the hang of things!

The blizzard quickly blew past overnight leaving some pretty good snow higher above the mountain and leaving the lower parts quite slushy. Most of us were very keen to hit the high slopes except for Lisa and Nancy who went and took a morning refresher snowboarding lesson, Kim who had a sore toe from her [...]

Day 5- Going Sky High!

We woke up to day 5 to a windy, cold and rainy morning which spelt doom as the rain melts the soft powdery snow into wet slush. We checked the forecast and it was confirmed a blizzard was coming through, but we didn’t care and got ready to get up the mountain anyway, hoping that [...]

Day 4- Conquering the mountain..well 1/4 of the way!

Upon writing this post, we are back on the plane to Tokyo as we have finished our ski leg of the trip. I’m sorry for the delay in the post, it has been so difficult to update on a daily basis because snowboarding all day has been so exhausting mentally and physically. Day 4 of [...]

Day 3- Training Day…

The morning presented us with a bright blue sunny day, which looked absolutely awesome waking up to and looking out of the window. Today was our training day and i think Lisa, Nancy and I were so excited that we forgot about the stories of sore bums from the rest of the guys. John recommended [...]

Day 2- Niseko here we come!!!

Firstly, I forgot to mention about how awesome the toilets are here in Japan!! My first experience was quite an anxious one as there were so many buttons and symbols, it totally blew my mind! Ok, so this is what I gathered on how to use the toilet; when you open the lid the seat [...]

Day 1- On The way to Tokyo.

*Sorry for the delay in the post* Generally waking up before 6.30am in the morning to go to work is probably one of the most hardest things to do in any given day! But waking up at 3am to get ready for our flight to Cairns was such a breeze; Maybe i was so excited [...]

Tokyo, JR and Osaka subway maps for iphone/ipod touch

Here’s a link to some subway maps. Download these maps, unzip the folders and sync with your photos in Itunes. Instructions for the nontechnical. Osaka City Greater Tokyo JR Line Tokyo Subway

Iphone/ipod touch apps for our trip

Hi all If you have a jailbroken ipod touch or 2g/3g iphone then these applications will be useful for the trip. Click on the links below to download, rename the file to have an *.ipa extension instead of *.zip. Drop these into the Applications section in your Itunes library and sync away Tokyo Subway Metro [...]