Ask anyone about riding in Japan and you’ll probably get a similar response…sick trees, great snow, incredible culture. What you probably won’t hear about is vast treeless mountain tops that lay in Tateyama on the border of Toyama Prefecture and Nagano. Don’t sleep on alpine style shredding in the land of the rising sun. Here is K2’s all Japanese snowboard team setting them up and knocking them down in the Chiba Prefecture.

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Francis Xavier is a seasoned writer for Unofficial Networks, bringing a lifetime of outdoor experience to his work. Having lived in a ski resort town for years he has a deep connection to mountain culture....