Enjoying ski at “the Advanced course”, Gozaishi ski resort
Ep.95
Beijing winter Olympic and Paralympic was closed. I loved to watch Alpine Skiing.
This sports is needed both extremely perfection and courage. And also it’s familiar with TV broadcasting. It makes audience so excite!
Matthias Mayer (AUT), Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI) and such star skiers got medals, but Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) missed.
By the way, I am a “middle class” skier, even though not participate competition.
On March, I went to the nearest snow park from my apartment, “Gozaishi ski resort” for the first in this season. Surprisingly, “the Advanced course”was opened. It never opened last and before last season due to snow deficiency, so I called “the Phantom course”.
This ski resort have only two courses. In the Beginner course, families enjoyed, but in the Advanced course, there were only a few skiers. Let’s go to the one.
Steep slope was good and overall length was too short, only 220m!
But I was satisfied with it. One of my dreams has come true since last season. Next time when will this open?
Iga city was one of the birthplace where Ninja was appeared in Mid-century.
So, this city government promotes it for sightseeing.
But on the other hand, this city has other interesting aspects.
In this episode, let you show them.
First, Iga is a “mass-productive area” of Banana.
After importing from Philippine, Ecuador and such tropical countries, green bananas are needed “ripping process” to yellow one for shipping supermarket.
This process is done in the environment which is imitated tropical countries with some special equipments.
Then, Iga is the area.
Why Banana?
The reason why it relates to a person who is the greatest Japanese poet, 松尾芭蕉 Matsuo Baho. He’s from Iga city.
“芭蕉 Basho” (Musa basjoo) is the flowering plant and known as Japanese Banana! It belongs to banana family. Oh my gosh!
One more topic, when I tried the sake, “Basho” (俳聖芭蕉純米吟醸), it tasted chocolate or cacao flavor. I didn’t know why. It’s so curious.
This episode refers to Iga city, Basho, Banana and Cacao, that’s all.
赤目四十八滝 Akame 48 waterfalls is a scenic spot in 名張 Nabari city, the west area of Mie.
Plenty of waterfalls, not only big one, but small one and various shapes of them make an awesome landscape. 48 means “many” in this.
By the way, this spot relates to 忍者 Ninja. One of Ninja’s birthplaces is here, 伊賀 Iga area.
According to some guide books, Ninja trained here with waterfalls, rocks, rivers, forest and mountains. So, this was a training site for them at that time.
Really? In my opinion, Ninja was a spy or an assassin, Not a samurai or an athlete.
Even though Not a fact about Ninja’s training site, this wonderful place attracts lots of people.
The Yokkaichi gymnasium “Yokkaichi exhibition by gymnastics dream team”
Ep.86
The Yokkaichi gymnasium has located in the city central green park since 2020.
Even though built for “the national sports festival in 2021”, it was banned due to corona virus pandemic. It must be “tragic facility”.
But at last, the official opening event was held in Jan. 2022. National gymnastics and trampoline members of 2020 Tokyo Olympic came there and showed exhibition!
Audience who were selected in citizens enjoyed Olympian’s performances.