Skiing Ostrichs in Japan
In part to promote winter travel to skiing destinations on JR East trains, the company aired several entertaining TV commercials “JR-SKI” featuring skiing ostriches.
Skiing Ostrichs Videos
RE-BORN prologue (2002)
SKi-Hero (2003)
Triple Jump (2004)
Ski in the City (2005)
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- Travel to Japan’s ski resorts
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- Watch out for this Japanese band “Back-on”
- All-Japan Omagari National Fireworks Competition video
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January 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Why don’t JR make the skiing ostrich CM’s anymore? they’re pretty good. The triple jump one is my fave.