Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

Hakuba Goryu Snow Resort The ski area has two primary bases: Toomi and Iimori. There is also a large upper area called Alps-daira, which you can reach using a 2,013-meter gondola lift.

TOKYO >> Hotels and restaurants in the popular Hakuba ski resort village are packed to capacity amid a surge in international tourists on the slopes, and visitors to the village are expected to grow ...

The Hakuba Valley is about 2.5 hours from Tokyo ... going between all of them if you want to hit more than one ski resort in a day. Après-ski here means soaking in hot springs and diving into ...

The most popular skiing can be split into two main areas: Nagano/Hakuba (main island), and the various ski resorts around Sapporo like Niseko and Rusutsu (on Hokkaido). Of course, there are dozens of ...

Each year between mid-November and April, winter sports fans from around the world flock to Japan for the country’s renowned ...

Mount Hakuba-Norikuradake is just one of several ... Two of them, an American and an Austrian, died. Some ski resorts have taken measures to prevent such accidents. On a route from the Tsugaike ...