Ski trip to Hakusan Ichirino Onsen 14-15.02.2003

On the second weekend of February the International Student Center organized a ski trip to Hakusan Ichirino Onsen (白山一里野温泉) ski resort. Departure was Friday afternoon and in the evening we went to see Bunya Ningyou Joruri (文弥人形浄瑠璃), a traditional puppet play in Higashi-Futakuchi area, Oguchi village. Actually we saw only two first scenes of a play, the full length one would have been over four hours long. The songs were in original 300 year old language, which differs a great deal from current Japanese: even natives have trouble understanding it. Saturday was reserved for skiing, for quite a few people it was actually the first time on skis.

The hotel had a small hot bath but unfortunately we didn't have time to go to the actual hot spring center. Hint: How about returning two hours later next year, to leave some time to relax there after skiing? But weather was perfect, skiing great, and of course good company around all the time. :-)