Here's the trip report. To describe the trip in a word: awesome.
Arriving in Tokyo on a Saturday night, I met up with an American girl from OKCupid. She was one of several that looked me up on OKC asking for advice on where to go in Tokyo and I chose her because she had the biggest cans (by a lot - random girls in bars would touch her chest in awe). Easy, fun smash. I had a decent pipeline of other girls coming to Tokyo and in the future, would start pipelining further in advance.
I took a train to Hakuba and stayed at a ryokan there for the next 5 nights in central Happo for about $60/night for a private room with breakfast. Skiing was amazing. Lots and lots of snow, zero lift lines (except at Cortina), alternating snow and sun, and the ability to ski a different mountain every day. It's also cheap relative to skiing in the states - ~$40 for lift ticket and lunch! Lifts are primitively slow but compensated for by zero lines.
Nightlife was a mixed bag for me but fruitful. The combo of jet lag and skiing meant that three nights of my five I was waking up at 4:30am and in bed by 9:00. I did go out two nights at a couple of the small bars in town. The crowd there is best characterized as a combo of Australian tourists and internationals working the lifts. I should have mentioned that the whole area was almost exclusively Australian. Staff is mostly Japanese but not as youthful or attractive as one would have hoped/expected. The cutest girls were bar tenders and impossible to pull. Anyway, I got lit up to the point of being useless one of my nights out and the other pulled an attractive Canadian/Chinese mix with the line "do you want to see my onsen?". Banged her there and again on my futon - very Japanese experience IMHO. Best game would be to either penetrate the social circle of a large, mixed aussie group or to play up being the non-Aussie, more genteel type.
The rest of the trip was comprised of going to see the snow monkeys (must do) and two nights in Tokyo. I made out with a few girls at Feria who wouldn't abandon their friends on Friday night and Saturday night bombed at Womb. In spite of comments made on other threads that Roppongi is dead, I think it's still the best place to pull for a SNL.
I would return to Hakuba in heartbeat.
Arriving in Tokyo on a Saturday night, I met up with an American girl from OKCupid. She was one of several that looked me up on OKC asking for advice on where to go in Tokyo and I chose her because she had the biggest cans (by a lot - random girls in bars would touch her chest in awe). Easy, fun smash. I had a decent pipeline of other girls coming to Tokyo and in the future, would start pipelining further in advance.
I took a train to Hakuba and stayed at a ryokan there for the next 5 nights in central Happo for about $60/night for a private room with breakfast. Skiing was amazing. Lots and lots of snow, zero lift lines (except at Cortina), alternating snow and sun, and the ability to ski a different mountain every day. It's also cheap relative to skiing in the states - ~$40 for lift ticket and lunch! Lifts are primitively slow but compensated for by zero lines.
Nightlife was a mixed bag for me but fruitful. The combo of jet lag and skiing meant that three nights of my five I was waking up at 4:30am and in bed by 9:00. I did go out two nights at a couple of the small bars in town. The crowd there is best characterized as a combo of Australian tourists and internationals working the lifts. I should have mentioned that the whole area was almost exclusively Australian. Staff is mostly Japanese but not as youthful or attractive as one would have hoped/expected. The cutest girls were bar tenders and impossible to pull. Anyway, I got lit up to the point of being useless one of my nights out and the other pulled an attractive Canadian/Chinese mix with the line "do you want to see my onsen?". Banged her there and again on my futon - very Japanese experience IMHO. Best game would be to either penetrate the social circle of a large, mixed aussie group or to play up being the non-Aussie, more genteel type.
The rest of the trip was comprised of going to see the snow monkeys (must do) and two nights in Tokyo. I made out with a few girls at Feria who wouldn't abandon their friends on Friday night and Saturday night bombed at Womb. In spite of comments made on other threads that Roppongi is dead, I think it's still the best place to pull for a SNL.
I would return to Hakuba in heartbeat.