alright, we are back on top of the mountain going to be the first turn of the day
Nathalia is downstairs, down at the Airbnb. Feeling a little sore from the first day
so its just gonna be me up here today its our last day in Nozawa Onsen
but excited to be back in Tokyo tomorrow so let's do a few runs, lets go
alright well today was a terrible ski day
look at this, this is how bad
how bad it is over here
like how are you supposed to snowboard in this?
this is ridiculous
worst ski season in Nozawa ever
it's all dirt
but I never showed you guys what our Airbnb looks like
so I figured since I'm back now from snowboarding
why not show you guys and give you guys a tour of where we're actually staying
so we're technically staying in a bed and breakfast
I'd like to consider it a hostel but because we do have bunk beds and all that
so as soon as you come into the entranceway you have
dining tables which they offer breakfast and dinner
when you guys see these steps that means you have to take your shoes off and put on slippers or socks
here you have more tables that everybody can sit at
everything over here on this other side is all bunk beds
so I'll show you ours in just a minute
they do offer free water, hot water, tea and cups as well as utensils
and then you can purchase Sake or beer or snacks if you don't bring any
they do offer snowboard and ski rentals (*no ski rentals) and they have a kitchen right back here
where they can cook you something up for breakfast or lunch or dinner
oh yeah they offer only snowboards not skis
alright let's show you guys our rooms
so Nathalia has the bottom bed
so it's basically just a mattress with a blanket and
a sleeping bag over top of it and with a pillow
and hangers up top with a window
and then I have these fun little steps that I have to go up every single night to my room
and I have the second bed
so it's literally the same layout
I have a cool little cubby here
with my chargers and my laptop
and then if we go up all the way, more hanging space for my coats
and all my bags go in the other way
so it's a very basic room layout
I mean it's just a single bed and they're all stacked on top of each other
everybody's really friendly, lights out is at 12, 11PM or 12 o'clock
and they lock the doors after 12 o'clock
so you can't really go ahead and drink all night unfortunately
so let's go back down
all right bathroom tour
it's dark in here
very basic bathroom
so you have a sink
a mirror
and two toilets
one for women, one for men
and that's all
so there is no shower as you can see in the bathroom
yeah that's just basically it, there's no shower
so in Nozawa Onsen there are onsens obviously
so basically they're like community bathrooms
and you go in, you take off all your clothes, its all nude
you shower before you go into the onsen
and the onsen is just basically like a Jacuzzi or a hot tub
so you go in and soak for 30 minutes after your ski or your snowboarding after the day
which I will probably do after this
but the basic rules you guys need to know is that
its no clothes, fully nude
and you need to shower before you go into the onsen
and one of the biggest rules is no shoes allowed
so don't make that mistake
but yeah this is a very basic Airbnb it cost us $50 a night I believe which is
500 yen, no 5000 yen, 5,000 yen a night
that includes your bed and
thats it
you can do laundry here, we haven't done any yet though
but its really very basic for a ski town it's really all you need
there are other options here for apartment style rooms with a shower and all that
gonna be much more expensive though because
during the winter season you're paying close to $200 a night for that kind of stuff
so we wanted to save a little money and this is literally all you need
and the manager here, the host is very friendly
he's like the most amazing guy here
he literally comes around gives us sake shots after we'd come home from snowboarding
so highly recommend this place guys
the only downside to this place is you do have a very far walk
because we're located at the very bottom with Nozawa Onsen
so you have a very long hike up the mountain but other than that
it's good
its great
i love it
anything else?
you're like, "its good, its great, i love it"
so they do rent out snowboards, they do not rent skis
so if you want skis you have to go to the very top of the mountain where they do ski rentals
these are all the boards
looks like you have hats
you have boots
and goggles if you guys need them
the rentals here costs approximately 4,500 yen a day for a rental or 5,000 yen I don't remember exactly
and the ticket prices for your lift tickets are I believe like 5,000 yen a day
and you get a bit of a discount if you rent for multiple days
one major thing you guys do need to know though
we came here without exchanging all of our money from Tokyo
So if you come to Nozawa Onsen you should bring all cash in yen
because the only place to exchange money here is at the very top at the lift
where you buy your tickets
so the exchange rate is very bad there, it's terrible
the exchange rate we got was I believe 102 yen per U.S. Dollar
and the normal exchange rate is 109.5 yen per U.S. Dollar
so we lost about almost ten dollars for every hundred that we exchanged
so it's quite a bit of money it's like a thousand yen you lose
for each $100 you exchange so
before you come to Nozawa don't make the same mistake we did
make sure you change all of your money in Tokyo or wherever you're coming in from
because you're going to have a very bad day exchanging money
so use that as a very last option, other thing is you can use an ATM here
the ATMs are pretty good?
the exchange rate is pretty accurate you will get hit with the foreign exchange rate fee though
from your bank as well as the ATM
so it's about $8 to $10 usually depending on what bank you're using
so just another thing for you guys to know
so it was an alright day on the mountain gonna come back here now and have dinner
and then tomorrow we are back in Tokyo
so we'll see you guys in the next video
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bye bye