Freitag, 8. Februar 2013

Last powder in Asahidake and Tokyo madness.

Our last days in Asahidake were actually pretty productive as we got some more snow. While a lot of it got windpacked and just blown away, we could find certain aspects where all this snow gathered and we could hit some pillows into deep Japanese powder.
 It was a good way to end the trip to Hokkaido although we have not had these unique powder runs which everyone has in mind when thinking of Snowboarding in Japan. Therefore we had an amazing time as a group and still collected a lot of cool footage I think.

From Sapporo we took a flight to Tokyo to spend three days in the worlds largest metropolitan area with about 35 Million people living here.
 At the airport we ran into a Japanese TV Production which were asking Fips about our Snowboard trip and what his riding style looks like.
 Shortly after we discovered that our photographer Silvano Zeiter is growing a single unicorn hair on his forehead.
 The first night in Tokyo we spent floating through the city and ended up in a bowling tournament with a lot of beer.
 The view at Breakfast the next morning on the 25th floor in Tokyo is quite ok.
 The city surely is something very different for us Europeans. Huge zebra crossings...
 ...world's second highest tower with a mind blowing view from the 450 meter high platform...

  ...colorful signs and weird noises everywhere...


But actually most important for me it was about the people. They really are different I think. Not only their look but their whole mentality seems to be extremely polite and friendly. And truely honest. I have bevcome a big fan of the Japanese people within the last three weeks.

One afternoon we did a fun tour through all the different snowboard shops in Tokyo which are selling Isenseven DVDs and we took pictures and gave signatures to the shop owners.
 We had an amazing night with our Japanese distributor Goh from Champion's Vision and his two colleagues who took us to a Teppanyaki and sushi place which was ridiculously good:
 No exaggeration but this piece of salmon truely was the best piece of animal I've eaten in my whole life!
 After a long delicious dinner they let us participate in another part of Japanese culture: Karaoke!
 Thanks to the people of Japan and their country for all the great experiences within the last weeks. It is a different world over there but it felt good to be a part of it.




1 Kommentar:

  1. Ich war beeindruckt, Marco! Very beautiful Pictures of Tokyo, I just loved. *)

    Dani

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