"Paradise" is often listed as "Heaven" in the dictionary but I wonder if something like that really exists in this world.
I have never been to places commonly called "Paradise".
What people say about it differs from each person and no one has ever seen "Heaven".
When I was looking up at my first aurora, I was strongly touched, thinking that " I have never seen something so impressive!" However,
there were people walking right pass me, paying absolutely no attention to the beautiful sky. In short, "Paradise" or "Heaven" does not seem to be a thing or a place. After all it is something one must look for themselves because it is a highly personal question. If someone finds their "Paradise" and does not lose sight ofit, maybe they can always live with a smile on their face regardless of their action or place.
Living honestly might be the shortest way to "Paradise".

Born in Tokyo in 1962 and moved to Niseko in 1991.
Traveled around Japan carrying fishing poles and skies from early childhood(1973).
Experience a sensational encounter with snow surfing at age 12.
Have been traveling around the world since the encounter with surfing at age 19.
Niseko has always been the base of all the travels but finally decided to settle there.
Has been introducing and discovering Niseko with a particular way to the world of snowboard and ski.
Has been contributing to magazines through essays and photographs about the world's nature and environment from the point of view of a snowboarder, a surfer, and an angler. The travel sketch of the snowboarding trip to Alaska in 1993 became a sensational debut.
The "Alaska 2003" published in 2003, brought many responses from the readers. Has been attracting many fans in 35mm slide shows.
Five years have passed since "AURA", the first work as a film maker was released and is starting to get high reputations with the new release of "PUBLIC SENTIMENT" last year.
Also very particular over goods, not only over snowboards and product designs.
Many fans were surprised to see "GENTEM CAFE" in Niseko, where he designed and expressed an unique atmosphere from the interior, exterior, to the interior decoration.

Why do people snowboard?
The answer to that would be different from one person to another and it might also change as time passes by.
But here, a man who searches for the answer in a very extreme way exists.
Taro Tamai."Extreme Snowboarder", the title he has been given does not always express what he has been searching for.
Speaking without any fear of being misunderstood, "Snowboard" is one of the method of search for him.
That method could be surfing, or even be just existing there without surfing or snowboarding.
He has been searching for the ultimate moment, the moment where one is completely satisfied.
The photographs that are the cutouts of his moments, have been studded with the answers to his search.

From "searching for the ultimate moment" Eisuke Tomiyama