Hey look! There's Sven.

Up at the ski hill, kitanomine side! The picture is looking down away from the ski hill. Right around the ski hill there are a whole bunch of hotels. This area is called kitanomine, hence the name of this side of the ski hill. Skiing is a huge tourism thing in Furano. In the summer we have lavendar fields, in the winter we have a great ski hill. So, there are lots of interesting places and people at these hotels tend to speak a bit of English or something. Some of the hotels like the one behind me imitate a European style, while others try to attract tourists by being traditionally Japanese-style. Since I live here I've never stayed at any of these hotels.