Skiing in Japan is synonymous with bottomless powder ... The most popular skiing can be split into two main areas: Nagano/Hakuba (main island), and the various ski resorts around Sapporo like Niseko ...

Although places like Niseko on the island of Hokkaido are well known for powder, we’ll let you in on a little secret: Nagano offers some of the best skiing and snowboarding in Japan. It did host ...

Ski resorts in Japan are prized for having some of the deepest ... They headed to a resort in the Hakuba Valley that had hosted events for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. They took a lift ...

Japan’s breathtaking, yet treacherous, mountains of Nagano Prefecture experienced an alarming surge in rescue operations in ...

Street was happy the World Cup had returned to her home resort, where elks roam between the condos, for the first time since ...

The Japan National Tourism Organization’s English website introduces Hakuba, Niseko in Hokkaido and Mount Hakkodasan in Aomori Prefecture as famous places for backcountry skiing. The Niseko area ...

MATSUMOTO, Japan >> As the number of domestic ... only 1% were foreign tourists. Ski resorts in Hakuba Village in Nagano, meanwhile, are filled with foreign visitors. The reason: It takes just ...

OTARI, Nagano Prefecture--Two foreign nationals were found in a state of cardiac arrest on Jan. 30 after being caught in an avalanche in an unpatrolled area near a ski resort here, prefectural ...

The mountains of Nagano Prefecture are a popular destination, but 13 people were reported missing or dead there in 2024 ...