Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!unknown!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Nagano or Sapporo? Comfort or roughing it (a little) Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 18:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 35 Sender: scjmmod@haven.eyrie.org Message-ID: References: <98acfe2e-cd62-40d3-a400-9de6694ed6d2@h36g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1306632006 5563 166.84.7.159 (29 May 2011 01:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.35.4-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170001 CL wrote: > On 05/28/2011 11:33 PM, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > Actually, I did; I heard about it in the early 80s, when I first started > > taking my studies of Japan/Japanese seriously. > I also learned about the Snow Festival in the course of my Japan studies > ... somewhat earlier than Mike. Unfortunately, my first chance to visit > Japan after that was nothing more than a transit of Okinawa on my way to > save the inhabitants of another Asian country by shooting them and I I *JUST* missed that trip. > didn't get a chance to do Hokkaido for the first time until about 1989. > > BTW, another consideration is that the Sapporo trip includes, essentially, a > > side trip. Japanese seem to like to pack in things like that on trips. > I REALLY LIKE Furano in the winter ... but somewhat less so, now that > I'm married. At least my Boss tells me that I ought to feel that way. > > Plus, Sapporo seems to be famous in Japan for its food, so even a bit > > more out-of-pocket would seem justified. > Susukino is famous for many other things than just the food. Some of > those things can be discussed publicly on a family list. I keep > http://www.susukino.co.jp/ on my phone browser for clients who have read > about, and want to try for themselves, those "other" activities. > They're a lot more amenable to foreign (non-Russian) guests in that > town, too. I am constantly amazed at the number of in-store, take-out, > and delivery-to-your-hotel-room options the local businesses offer. I bow to your knowledge of such things, sir. Mike