Went snowboarding in Nagano for a week. LOVED IT!! Plenty of ski mountains/resorts, and a lift pass for all 13(?) of them for 3 full days is about $130 AUD. Cheap as chips. Tonnes of powder everywhere, plenty of comfortable ski lodges & restaurants, off-piste snowboarding which I thought was second-to-none (have also been snowboarding in Switzerland, France and the US), but Marcus is right, get busted here and kiss your lift pass goodbye.
Marcus I may have been unlucky with the Up garage I went to but I was being ushered around to all the workshops in kansai by an employee of one such workshop, who first warned me of the calibre of parts they stocked before i got there. His sentiment was also shared by the folks at Auto Select, Signal Auto and Global Auto (when discussing where they sourced parts from locally).......So perhaps it's really just luck of the draw with them. Sometimes utter crap, sometimes you get something good for a bargain. All i saw was stock beat-up parts for various cars (nothing for GTRs), cheap/tacky rims and tyres, and some other small bits and pieces (I saw 1 well priced jasma exhaust for an S15 in good condition, and 1 very underpriced nismo LSD also for an S15 - no idea what condition it was in though).