5.0
(11)
Mountain Guide
Kanagawa
JMGA
I'm a ski and mountain guide from the Japanese Mountain Guide Association (JMGA). I guide backcountry skiing, mountaineering, hiking and canyon climbing (Sawanobori) mainly on Honshu, the main island of Japan.
When I was younger, I spent a couple of years in Canada and in Salt Lake City skiing and working as a rafting guide, as well as spent 2 summer seasons in Switzerland as a hiking guide.
I started backcountry ski guiding when I based myself in Minakami and started one of the first backcountry ski guide companies in the area in 2002. I'm travelling every year to Europe and North America for ski trip with my clients.
Please contact me if you wish to come to Japan and would like to enjoy our beautiful environment while doing an exciting outdoor activity.
Brian
A group of five of us from USA hired Kenichi to use Morioka as a base and explore tree skiing at the various resorts in the area for 4 days. Having lived outside of Japan, extensive outdoor and backcountry experience, perfect English, ability to drive a van around so we could relax, effort in picking best location for each day by balancing weather/snow conditions/mountain knowledge , and true desire to make the entire experience enjoyable from breakfast to the last drink at night, we will all highly recommend him. We also were able to explore the local onsens done properly as well as all the varieties of cuisine available in Japan. Thank you Kenichi!
Jennifer
Kenichi was very helpful fitting around us as much as possible. We enjoyed his company and. that of his other clients.
Dmitrii
Kenichi is an amazing guide. Not only he guided us to the summit but also he showed us around the area and told us a lot of interesting about Japanese culture and religion. Also he was very flexible in regards to the bad weather forecast
Daniel
Awesome guide and a really nice person. I had the best trip to Mt. Fuji with him.
Conor
Great trip! Kenichi was an amazing guide — both in the backcountry and as a local guide suggesting restaurants, onsens, etc. Highly recommend!
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