You can take a night bus in Tokyo/Yokohama on Friday, get to the ski resort in the next morning, ski till Sunday midday and then take the bus back. The cheapest trip including ski lift pass, ski gear, 1 night stay, 2 dinners and 1 breakfast can be below 20,000yen. If the hotel has an onsen (hot spring), you can also enjoy the Japanese style bath after the cold day.
Don't worry about being naked in front of people at an onsen, because nobody is interested in your naked body and you should not be. Is it strange? But if you try, you will understand one part of the Japanese culture.
Today's recipe is the hot soup with chicken balls. It warms you up in a cold and snowy day...
Ingredients:
-chicken ball-
minced chicken
ginger
onion
soy sauce
salt
-soup-
Japanese long taro*
sweet potato*
Chinese cabbage*
noodles made of konnyaku*
kimchi
miso
*Anything you like
1- Mix up minced chicken, grated ginger, shredded onion, salt and soy sauce.2- Boil vegetables, kimchi and konnyaku noodles in a soup (konbu seaweed stock).
3- Make balls from 1 and put it into the soup.
4- When all ingredients are cooked, melt the miso paste in the soup.
When some soup is left, you can put rice in it and boil again the next morning. It makes a great breakfast.
