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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Mountain Bike Weekend In Niseko

NisekoMtb.com and Black Diamond Lodge is doing thier thing for the mountain bike community of Hokkaido and Niseko.

Its going to be a great weekend of mountain biking so show your support and get on Saturday & Sunday to check it out!

Saturday - Practice day
- Grand Hirafu, Center 4 Lift.
- NisekoMtb.com & Black Diamond Lodge dirt jump session and BYO BBQ & beverages!

Sunday - Race Day
- Grand Hirafu, Center 4 Lift

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Niseko News

Niseko Is The Place It All Happens!



Tonight is the night of the Niseko Utari Music Festival at The Northern Fox! All we can hope for is that they have their shit together for tomorrow tonight!

White Bear Pension also looks like they are playing host to a local soccer club this weekend that is in town for a training weekend! White Bear Pension is located right next door to venue for tomorrows music festival - hope they don't plan on sleeping tonight! Go party next door boys!

The mountain bike crew headed by Nisekomtb.com commander (Martin) was out in the trees today adding some nice corner features to the D-sen track. The new feature will have you railing one of the last corners at mach 10!

Good luck to Martin at tomorrow’s downhill race in Teine, just outside of Sapporo.

Niseko will be hosting its own race on the last weekend of June, more details to follow!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Niseko News

Niseko Utari Festival



When: Sunday 22, June 2008
Where: The Northern Fox, Niseko
Cost: Advanced tickets 3,000yen
At the door 4,000yen

The Line Up & Times
Open - 16.00
Live 3 - 16.30
Live Charaves - 17.30
Live GOMA - 18.30
The Sun Paulo - 20.00
dachambo - 21.30
Cro-magnon - 23.00
DJ QLIONE - 24.00
DJ TOMO - 01.00
Close - 02.00

Hope to see everyone there! Should be a great night!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Niseko News

Niseko & G8 Summit

A police technician dispatched to Hokkaido for the Group of Eight (G8) summit meeting in July has been arrested for sneaking into a women's bathroom to take photos of a bathing woman, police said.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Niseko News

Niseko Lift Ticket Prices



One of the major draw cards of taking your snow holiday in Niseko is the inexpensive lift tickets, you know, besides the massive amounts of powder snow, Japanese food and culture and the short flight times from Australia and other Asian countries!
Lift Ticket prices for Niseko for the 2008/09 season maybe going up in price! One thing that you need to keep in mind, they will be not even close to the cost of a lift ticket in Australia ($100 dollars a day is ridicules!) In fact the lift tickets for Niseko will only be going up 8%, so a 1 day lift ticket might get to the equivalent of $60AUS, yes, we said might!

Really it is surprising that people still go to the snow in Australia! Expensive lift prices, very poor snow conditions, over priced accommodation, massive crowds if it does snow and over priced food and beverage prices, should we continue?

Our message to the blog world that loves snow – “Come to Japan!”

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Niseko Gets Environmental

Supermarkets in Kutchan, the town just outside of Niseko, have introduced the practice of charging for plastic bags!

Of course this a step in the right direction for the Niseko environment and the environment in general of course! It does seem that a lot more of an effort should be made to protect and improve the amount of negative factors that affect the environment considering the people of Niseko rely so heavily on environmental tourism.

So how will this affect you?

Well when you come to Niseko on your next snow holiday, consider bringing your “green” shopping bags from home, or buy ones to use here, or maybe even use the boxes that are provided at the supermarkets, but whatever you do, DON’T USE PLASTIC BAGS!
If you don’t use plastic, Mother Nature will of course reward you with nipple deep snow conditions for everyday of your holiday in Niseko!

We just hope you’re not a midget, nothing against midgets; we just want deeper snow than the height of midget nipples!
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