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August 18, 2024

What is Night Skiing?

Night skiing is a popular winter activity where skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes after dark. Many ski resorts have lights installed on their trails, allowing for an extended skiing experience beyond daylight hours. Here are some key points about night skiing: It’s a great way to extend your skiing day and experience the slopes…
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September 13, 2023

Sapporo Ski Resorts on a Budget for Beginners

If you are a beginner and on a budget, there are an astounding 8 ski mountains to choose from about 1 hour of downtown Sapporo. Staying off the ski mountain will certainly bring down your accomodation price. Also, in early February of each year, Sapporo has their famous snow festival. Ski during the day and…
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May 29, 2023

Japan Ski Resorts Map

Freshsnow.jp was designed to provide easy access to detailed attributes about ski resorts in Japan and to display data in an easy to understand thematic ski resort map. As of November 2023, there are about 295 ski resort maps in Japan in our database. As there are about 450 to 500 ski resorts in Japan,…
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May 7, 2023

How to Get to Hakuba from downtown Tokyo or Directly from Haneda Airport?

There are many ways to get to Hakuba Valley. Most people arriving from overseas will either arrive at Haneda Airport or Narita Airport but some may wish to stay a few days in Tokyo before traveling to Hakuba Valley. We look at all the of the different ways to get to Hakuba Valley from downtown…
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March 5, 2023

End of the Ski Season in Hakuba Valley

There was a great dump of snow in Hakuba Valley in 2022. Due to the amount of snow dumped in the 21/22 ski season, the end of the ski season in Hakuba in 2022 lasted until Golden Week, a series of four national holidays in the span of a week at the end of April…
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March 4, 2023

Hakuba Ski Resort Consists of 10 Ski Mountains

Hakuba, an overall awesome resort and one of Japan’s largest resorts with an extremely snowy winter! In fact, the average snow fall per season from 1991 to 2020 was just over 13m per season (See Habuba’s average snowfall from 1991 to 2020 here). This is also where the 1998 Winter Olympic Games were held. In…
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