Once again the team at S.P.I.N bring you an opportunity to enjoy a night out in Sapporo with locals and expats from across the globe with great music, dancing all night and of course a 3 hour nomihodai. This time the much loved BOOTY discotheque is the place to be, and both the dance floor and lounge will be in operation.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Where- Booty south 7 west 4 When- 10pm till late, Tuesday, September 22 (Silver Week Holiday)
Nomihodai from 10:00pm -1:00am, 2500 yen; after 1:00am entry is 1000 yen with 1 drink
The high cloud cover kept the riders cool and left both Mount Youtei and Annupuri clearly visible for the entire day, Niseko's stunning natural backdrop the perfect canvas for the day's events.
The race route at Niseko Village, weaving throughout what used to a golf course, was sufficiently challenging for the riders, as evidenced by even the eventually triumphant shacho club's huffing and puffing. Team Niseko looked hard to beat... are there no challengers? Muroran? Otaru? Hakodate? Sapporo? Tokyo? Bring it on.
The Hokkaido BBQ College was also in town to get down. Steaks, veggies, and bread, rounded out with aburi bacon. Have you seen them grill up aburi bacon? A slab of bacon the size of a human arm, slowly roasting inches from the coals, deep down inside you know that... "I am a carnivore." The soup & salad were simply ornamental.
As the day wound down a slight mountain breeze's chill reminded us all of epic powder days to come, but the weather looks like it should hold up throughout Niseko Cycle Week and Niseko Golf Week, just long enough to showcase the final weeks of Niseko's perfect summers. There was even talk amongst the locals of putting on a 2010 "Niseko Chrome Week"... can it be true? The Kutchannel hopes so. Bring on the Harleys, Hondas, and Kawasakis!
If you weren't able to attend Niseko Cycle Week, no worries, you have another week to get in on the action. Check the 2009 Niseko Cycle Week event schedule for a complete listing of this week's events.
Niseko's resident Jazz & Funk masters bring you "Open Mic at Cafe Kaku" on Saturday June 21st from 2pm.
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if interested in getting on the mic and letting your Niseko brethren know how you get down.
OK, Martin and I were on way to Hakodate from Niseko (together with 3 other locals we run a bar in Hakodate and we were hoping to get some work done). There was road construction near Yakumo, and the road was down to one lane. Guy with red flag, etc. We stopped behind a truck. Another truck stopped behind us. We were chatting... suddenly WHAM! WHAM!!! Car totaled.
What happened: a truck did not stop for the construction. He plowed through the truck behind us. That truck shot across and off the highway. Then he plowed into us, and pushed us into the truck in front of us.
Luckily the truck directly behind us, whose driver left the scene in an ambulance, clipped us in the back, because it turned my truck to the side a bit, and that kept my car from crumpling when the truck that caused the whole mess plowed into us too....
We're fine. How Martin escaped with his legs not broken even he can't explain. If we had been in a smaller car, if the guy behind us hadn't been there to shield us from the blow, if the steel rod we had in the back of the car had shot through one of our heads...
Just because you're a safe driver doesn't mean you're safe on the road. All the same... drive safe on the mean streets of Hokkaido!
