This area is best (maybe only) to reach by car. Very few railways connect the dense-polpulated Tokyo and other surrounding cities with the Japanese Alps, but roads are there enough.
Rental car will bring you anywhere. Busses are scarse, but the network brings you in the smallest villages.
Written Oct 13, 2002
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This area is best (maybe only) to reach by car. Very few railways connect the dense-polpulated Tokyo and other surrounding cities with the Japanese Alps, but...
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Karuizawa, the heart of the Japanese Alps

Wintersport in summertime is sadly enough not possible. Otherwise it would have been a real opportunity to sky in Asia (never done that before). Karuizawa is known to be the Saint Tropez, but it...
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