Our favorites are Hakuba Happo-One for its backcountry access ... in a more traditional Japanese mountain experience. Compared to the many ski resorts on Honshu, Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido ...

but Hakuba remained just one among a host of ski options overshadowed by Japan’s premier resort Niseko. The town ramped up its efforts to distinguish itself from the competition starting around ...

Our favorites are Hakuba Happo-One for its backcountry ... Compared to the many ski resorts on Honshu, Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido offers much deeper snow and is where you’re much ...

Japan’s main island, Honshu, has a wider variety of ski destinations and, in general, has bigger mountains. It’s home to the Hakuba Valley, the Myoko area and hundreds of tiny mom-and-pop resorts ...

MATSUMOTO, Japan >> As the number of domestic skiers ... Of the 40,000 visitors last season, only 1% were foreign tourists. Ski resorts in Hakuba Village in Nagano, meanwhile, are filled with ...

along with the more famed Japanese ski resorts of Niseko and Hakuba, is known for powder snow, dubbed “Japow.” The resort areas are a huge part of Japan’s tourism boom, also fuelled by a ...

The Hakuba Valley, the country’s largest ... Nozawa Onsen is one of Japan’s oldest ski resorts, with diverse terrain, many onsens and a charming village.Credit...Andrew Faulk for The New ...

Japan has more than 500 ski resorts, situated everywhere from ... But the slopes offer plenty of space. We start out at Hakuba Goryu, a resort with 15 trails and 13 lifts. The lifts take some ...

But Nagano's Hakuba — which is sometimes referred ... In response, another commenter wrote: "There are approximately 500 other ski resorts in Japan. Many of them are practically empty." ...

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 ...