Okay, so at this point, I have been five times so far; one time in January and Sat/Sun of the first two weekends of February. This weekend will only be Sunday because the Naked Man Festival in Okayama is going down - 9,000 guys in loin clothes fighting over blessed sticks. Can`t miss it ;)
But, what I wanted to comment on now is the Mascots of the ski-jou(s). On the way back from Snowboarding one day, I saw the sign for all the ski-jou at Hachibuse. Next to all the names were pictures of animals. I didn`t quite get it until I saw a skier dressed in a huge frog costume over on Tohachi. I actually got a picture with the frog. And then last weekend, I saw another skier in a tiger costume on the Sky Valley side. The same day I also saw a snowboarder in a Gundam suit, which was definitely the coolest of the three. He had the shield on his left arm and a big toy gun on his right. And then he crashed, lol. Funny thing is, I think the Gundam guy was not part of either ski-jou but just some random person who goes snowboarding in full-out Halloween costume....
Only in Japan
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