Kingswood
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2007 trip report here:
http://www.rotorburn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99831
2009, and after a lot of planning, and a lot of waiting, myself, Cressa, and a non-Rotorburn
mate of ours did a trip to Fujimi Panorama in Japan at the start of June.
Photography by Cressa.
We flew from Gold Coast direct to Tokyo with Jetstar.
Return airfares with excess baggage, all taxes etc where about $600 each.
It’s a 9 hour flight, then a 1.5 hour bus ride into Tokyo city, then a 2 hour train ride to Fujimi station.
Fujimi is pretty rural, there are bigger towns close by but not much around Fujimi except mountains and farms.
This is where we stayed. This place is about 15 minutes drive from the resort.
Afternoons where spent on this deck. We’d hang around, talk shit, drink, talk about sore muscles, talk about bikes,
drink, talk about how friggin big the tracks are, drink, have a shower or go down to the onsen, and then dinner time.
It cost us about $90AU a day for accommodation, lifts to the resort, huge breakfast and 5 course dinner every night.
Fujimi Panorama.
The resort has 1 gondola running in the summer and 3 DH tracks.
On our last day we managed to do 8 runs which added up to about 42kms of downhill riding.
We had planned to get some shots on the “A” course but got rained out on that day.
There is some helmet cam being uploaded later in this thread.
One of the days we skipped the resort and did a shuttle day with Paul from Free Ride Adventures.
We drove about an hour to Matsumoto where there is a nice big hill with a couple of
15 minute DH tracks on it. The tracks where out of this world, just so friggin long,
so fast, riding through big gullies, down ridges, a bit of everything.
This is where we stopped for lunch, we literally popped out of the bush after a
15 minute run, parked our bikes here and sat down for some noodles.
Ninja mechanics.
Beer and bikes
Beer is fairly expensive, but once you get out of the cities most things are
cheaper than in Oz. A bottle of Smirnoff Vodka costs about $13AU, a good
fresh lunch will cost about $11AU, can of Coke about $1.50, and a pack of
smokes cost a ridiculous $3.50AU.
Cressa snapped this guy from the car, would love to know what the fark is going on.
We saw a couple of these bikes in the city but this guy looks like he is doing some serious miles.
And then back to Tokyo.
http://www.rotorburn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99831
2009, and after a lot of planning, and a lot of waiting, myself, Cressa, and a non-Rotorburn
mate of ours did a trip to Fujimi Panorama in Japan at the start of June.
Photography by Cressa.
We flew from Gold Coast direct to Tokyo with Jetstar.
Return airfares with excess baggage, all taxes etc where about $600 each.
It’s a 9 hour flight, then a 1.5 hour bus ride into Tokyo city, then a 2 hour train ride to Fujimi station.
Fujimi is pretty rural, there are bigger towns close by but not much around Fujimi except mountains and farms.
This is where we stayed. This place is about 15 minutes drive from the resort.
Afternoons where spent on this deck. We’d hang around, talk shit, drink, talk about sore muscles, talk about bikes,
drink, talk about how friggin big the tracks are, drink, have a shower or go down to the onsen, and then dinner time.
It cost us about $90AU a day for accommodation, lifts to the resort, huge breakfast and 5 course dinner every night.
Fujimi Panorama.
The resort has 1 gondola running in the summer and 3 DH tracks.
On our last day we managed to do 8 runs which added up to about 42kms of downhill riding.
We had planned to get some shots on the “A” course but got rained out on that day.
There is some helmet cam being uploaded later in this thread.
One of the days we skipped the resort and did a shuttle day with Paul from Free Ride Adventures.
We drove about an hour to Matsumoto where there is a nice big hill with a couple of
15 minute DH tracks on it. The tracks where out of this world, just so friggin long,
so fast, riding through big gullies, down ridges, a bit of everything.
This is where we stopped for lunch, we literally popped out of the bush after a
15 minute run, parked our bikes here and sat down for some noodles.
Ninja mechanics.
Beer and bikes
Beer is fairly expensive, but once you get out of the cities most things are
cheaper than in Oz. A bottle of Smirnoff Vodka costs about $13AU, a good
fresh lunch will cost about $11AU, can of Coke about $1.50, and a pack of
smokes cost a ridiculous $3.50AU.
Cressa snapped this guy from the car, would love to know what the fark is going on.
We saw a couple of these bikes in the city but this guy looks like he is doing some serious miles.
And then back to Tokyo.
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