Though the 2020 ski season has been one of the warmest in recent years, the advent of winter brings with it the season for snow sports. Every year, scores of tourists come from outside Japan just for ...

Hakuba is a long valley floor connecting no fewer than ten ski resorts in the Japanese Alps. Some of them have provided recreational skiing for more than 70 years, some have hosted major Winter ...

Like many other snow resorts in Japan, the Tsugaike and Iwatake areas of Hakuba in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano face the overall decline in domestic skiing and snowboarding populations ...

After the lifts stop spinning, enjoy some après-ski spins by Bag Raiders, Steve Aoki and more in Hakuba – tickets are on sale now ...

Ask any skier or snowboarder for their list of must-visit winter destinations, and Japan will invariably feature. “Nowhere in the world is there snow quite like it,” says a skier at the Hakuba ...

Japan is a country whose boom-bust experience with winter sports has left a mix of charmingly dated resorts matched with an infusion of new-found interest from foreign visitors. In the inverse of the ...

The high-country paradise of Hakuba in Japan offers powder skiing so addictive that many make an annual pilgrimage there – and the backcountry environment is the best, says Sophie Nicolson Did you ...

Hakuba is a winter playground for skiers and snowboarders who want more of a challenge in the heart of the Japanese Alps Confession: we’re very open about our love of Niseko, but we’ve been hiding ...

Tourists head to Japan for many reasons: the shopping and night life of Tokyo, the temples of Kyoto, the scenic beauty of Hokkaido. But skiing? That's not something most travelers immediately ...

It’s snowing so hard on Suginohara Ski Resort that even the kamoshika, an endemic goat-like deer we spotted traversing the lift line the last ride up, seems stunned. In the time it takes to ride the ...