This year's foreign staff

Since the middle of December 2009 there are some foreign staff at Hotel Heights again, working and enjoying the snow at their free time!

Oliver from England and Siobhan from Scotland, who will gladly serve you at our bar "Papermoon" when you want to socialize in the evenings.

A while ago we had a big group of ~50 guests from all over the world, the party in the evening was great fun for everyone.

Some of the staff went to the monkey park at Jigokudani Yaen Koen a few weeks ago, being totally taken by the sight of the bathing snow monkeys so close by one could almost touch them. From right to the left: Alison from Australia, who works at the Tourist Information Center, Oli, Siobhan and me, Front Desk Ronja from Germany. ;)

A Winter Fairy Tale in Shiga-kogen

In mid-January we had some very fine days, with a lot of sunshine and powdery snow:



If you go all the way up to Yokoteyama (2307m) when it is good weather, you will have a nice view over the ski areas, Kasa mountain and even the Japanese Alps in the far background.





A little bit further away from Hotel Heights there is the big ski area "Giant".



Also from Higashidateyama Ski Area, one can see the Japanese Alps on the horizon.



Quite a winter fairy tale feeling, isn't it?