Kimobetsu Hokkaido, Japan
Kimobetsu is a town located in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido it is a short 10 minutes drive down the road from the Rusutsu ski resort. It was a new and strange experience for us. We found ourselves here as I had always wanted to do some skiing in Japan. I had seen some advertising in Australia from our Perisher Resort that if you bought there season pass for not much more than a regular weeks lift pass you could get a free weeks lift tickets in a partnered resort in either Canada, the US or Japan . We had planned to ski down in Perisher any way so why not take advantage of the epic season pass and get a free week in Japan too. So with two weeks skiing on the epic pass in Australia we were off to Japan to cash in , or at least see how much we could save. I would not really want to add up how much it cost all together for a ski trip in both the south and northern hemisphere 6 months apart but I suppose that's why I work all the long hard h...
