{"id":52593,"date":"2015-01-18T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=52593"},"modified":"2015-01-18T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:11:18","slug":"into-the-wild-snow-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=52593","title":{"rendered":"INTO THE WILD: SNOW COUNTRY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\ni got up at 4am this morning and was too excited to go back to sleep. i was supposed to leave at 7am but instead leave at 5am. so i jump in the shower, pack my bags, and head for the long journey to hokkaido.
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\ni got outside and it was freezing cold! so cold that i turned left instead of right to get to the station. i had to walk all the way back up the hill and go back around. my hands and ears were freezing cold. should i get a taxi? no way, i’m going to challenge myself and see how much cold my body can take.
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\nyes, it was so early that there were just a few people around.
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\nas i sat on the train and passed by roppongi and ginza, i saw so many drunk people coming back from last nights saturday night fever. i did that a few times long before and that’s something i don’t miss at all. but people watching was pretty fun this morning on my way to ueno.
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\nthen i get my shinkansan pass. i see snowboarders everywhere! the last time i snowboarded was over 15 years ago. i use to go every year until i hit a tree and realized that trees don’t move.
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\nbut cool to see people with their friends heading to the mountains. hokkaido is snow country and is known to have the best powder snow in the world. i kind of miss my experiences at niseko.
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\ndon’t let these signs confuse you. very complicated, but very efficient once you get to understand them. it took me a while.
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\ngoing to eat my breakfast, read a book, and try to sleep. 6 hours later, i’ll be in snow country!
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\njapan is the land of the rising sun. and it is rising right now!
\nlast night i was shopping for warm clothes in ginza and bumped into a surfer from hiroshima. his name was Hashimoto-san. Hashimoto-san, it was very nice to meet you last night. sorry i couldn’t talk to you more because i was actually in a rush. had friends were waiting in the car downstairs. thanks for checking out my blog and hope to surf with you in hawaii someday. keep on surfing! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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