Hoshino Resorts Tomamu, located in central Hokkaido, features a ski area and tower hotels that are popular with tourists from China and other countries. Shanghai Yuyuan Tourist Mart acquired the ...

SAPPORO—This ski season in Hokkaido, a growing number of skiers and snowboarders have gotten lost in the backcountry after venturing beyond resort boundaries. On Feb. 5, a rescue request was ...

Compared to the many ski resorts on Honshu, Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido offers much deeper snow and is where you’re much more likely to find that truly bottomless Japanese powder skiing ...

Rusutsu Resort is Hokkaido’s largest all-season resort ... annual snowfall of 14 meters and is one of Japan’s premiere skiing destinations. Choose from three mountains: Mount Isola (1,898 ...

Hokkaido Resort Club has been developed as an integrated one-stop solution supporting real estate acquisition, development, and operation. Based on the concept of “creating valuable assets in ...

Nagano/Hakuba (main island), and the various ski resorts around Sapporo like Niseko and Rusutsu (on Hokkaido). Of course, there are dozens of other smaller ski resorts and backcountry zones equally ...

Later an expat friend emailed me a Japan Times article titled ‘Booze-fueled antics take gloss off Hokkaido ski resort boom’ about drunk foreigners hassling locals and getting into bar fights, “a trend ...

In Hokkaido Prefecture, the sport of ski mountaineering has a long history. Making your way up into the mountains is possible when you have skis. Climbing through the deep snow requires skill ...

Presiding over the mountainous island of Hokkaido, the dynamic urban center ... These days, Sapporo is best known for its neighboring epic ski resorts—and for organizing the annual Sapporo ...