Is Tokyu the most useless pack of fools? | Forum

Go Native 2010-12-17 11:59:52

Most of you will have noticed that the Niseko United english website is still not operational with no updates on lift operation or snow reporting. It's now 17th Dec and the oxygen thieves who manage the company still haven't managed to get the site up and running. Anyone else find this totally unacceptable? In all my dealings with these numbnuts I've always believed them to be little better than a pack of idiots but this is really taking their ineptitude to new heights. When oh when will these relics of a former age finally be bought out??

JAmosConsultancy (2010-12-17 13:53:07)

I like the way they call themselves Niseko United but you have to choose from one of four separate buttons for each area of the mountain. And then when you get to a lift map, you have to scroll down to actually see the lifts. Which means twelve clicks to check out all the lifts. Why not one click directly to one united lift map?

Chishiki (2010-12-17 14:17:27)

Can't help with the updates but can help a little with the navigation. Added a "Lift" top-level menu that takes you straight through. Useless until they start updating the English site though.

Pow!!! (2010-12-18 00:48:34)

no go bro [img size=652]http://niseko.kutchannel.net/images/fbfiles/images/oopsGuessTheyDidntLikeThat.png[/img]

Chishiki (2010-12-18 13:03:42)

verified. the area links from [url=http://www.niseko.ne.jp/en/weather.html]this page[/url] are officially dead. coming soon?

Kuri (2010-12-18 22:37:49)

The they're fools is forgivable... that they're fools with the power to either help kick this place on into a bright future or keep it locked in a Sakoku past is not.

Their reluctance - despite repeated requests - to update the English Niseko United site (which Tokyu controls) is fairly clear evidence of how they value their international clientele... Not at all.

Might be interesting to see what changes a few well directed enquiries towards the other NU partners (eg. YTL in Malaysia, [i]not [/i]NV here!) might bring...

Also of note is the visible divide growing between Tokyu & Hanazono. But Tokyu wants to retain the "Grand" Hirafu title (originally designating the combined Hirafu and Hanazono) I guess it rolls off the tongue better than "Binbo" Hirafu...

digglar (2010-12-20 13:14:26)

Tokyu have seemed to have retreated away from grand overseeers of the whole village to just running their hotel. They are also turning more Japanese business style by the hour it seems to me.

NPB what? Thought so.

digglar (2010-12-20 13:22:44)

They have got more Japanese this seems, focusing on their hotel and less overseer of the whole village.

Can Rakuten and their forward thinking owner Mikitani please come in and save these guys from themselves?

That Chick From Logistics (2010-12-20 14:44:41)

not ruling it out, but with hanazono and higashiyama in foreign hands, doubt we'll see a sale of hirafu or annupuri to a non-japanese company. already the sale of forested land in the niseko area to foreign companies is making big news as a "threat to national security"

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101218f2.html

[quote]When the news first broke in June that a Hong Kong-based investor had two years earlier purchased more than 50 hectares of forest in Kucchan, near the Niseko ski resort in Hokkaido, shock waves ran through local residents.[/quote]

digglar (2010-12-21 10:31:49)

That is the gayest thing I ve heard since this-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5sS86exIQ&feature=fvst

What was Japan building under the Gold Coast and Manhattan when they were gobbling it up in the 80`s?

Kuri (2010-12-27 13:17:18)

After quite a wait this has just been released:

[url]http://www.niseko.ne.jp/en/index.html[/url]

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