DAY 76 - TOKYO TO ECHIGO-YUZAWA

Fintan with some of the Tuna fish about to be auctioned off at Tsujiki Fish Markets

Dave and Fintan, rather than go to bed, did an all nighter and headed to the Tsujiki fish markets, the largest of its kind in the world. Arriving at 6am after nearly getting run over by forklifts on the way we legged it straight to the tuna auction rooms where auctioneers sold massive tunas every 4 seconds in an intense and seemingly unrecognisable but melodic chant for over 20 minutes at a time without pause!

That afternoon we set off for the slopes on one of the famous Japanese Bullet Trains. Our destination was the town of Yuzawa which was only a mere 1 hour Bullet train drive away at the trains staggering but surprisingly smooth speed of 200mph!

Fintan with our Bullet Train to the slopes!

Rhys mate Josh collected us on arrival and we were blown away by the amount of snow there. Josh informed us that the previous night it had bucketed 20cm on the resort. Dressed in normal clothes, we were completely unprepared for these harsh conditions. Josh's company, http://www.welovesnow.com/ , kindly agreed to put us up in free accommodation for our stay. Knackered, we all hit the bed early for skiing the next day!

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