Imaginative travellers wanting to go to an alternative destination for a skiing trip have been advised to visit Japan.

The Japan Ski Experience suggested the country as an ideal location for people to hit the slopes because it has the highest number of resorts in the world — many of which are world class yet largely unknown to tourists.

Lindsay Colbert, who works at the company, believes that visitors want to go to the country to experience the combination of culture and skiing.

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Watching an Olympic skier perform a downhill slalom, turning smoothly around the flags, makes the sport seem just as much an art as a science. Researchers have developed a ski robot in an attempt to make precise measurements of skiing movements.

Read more on… Japanese researchers create the first skiing robot

A nonstop flight from Tokyo landed in Salt Lake City at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. The 12-hour flight is the first in a new service from Delta Air Lines. It is the first time Salt Lake City has seen an Airbus 330 jet on a regular basis and the first trans-Pacific service in the Intermountain region. The flight will run five times a week.

Read more on… Tokyo calling… non stop flights to Utah now boarding