Military in Japan

[TWest]

Originally Posted by KoukiKid

Heading to Misawa AB in June... pretty devastated I'll have to live on base. -____- At least it's not the dorms, but still.

This is a great thread, glad somebody started it.

What's off-base snow removal like? If I were to just get something fwd for winter (like a Pao or something) would it be difficult to get around? Also, what are ferry costs like to get to Hokkaido?

Also, has anybody here been stationed and retired over there? Is it any different than retiring stateside, if even possible?

Off base snow removal is pretty bad.. they don't plow the roads much if at all off base here. AWD is ideal for the winter here (you can get a subaru for dirt cheap) but this past winter wasn't too bad.. it was my first winter here so I haven't experienced a bad winter here yet, but supposedly they're normally pretty bad. FWD should be fine though unless it just dumps snow one day (happens on random occasions).