However, this season, industry insiders were salivating as the La Niña weather pattern — a cyclical period of cooler weather ...

Early on, the results were impressive: Niseko started the season by breaking a 68-year-old record for snowfall in the first month of December. Since then, there was a lull when the powder machine ...

Just a short, icy shuffle to Niseko’s buzzing Grand Hirafu village, this six-storey property in Niseko offers 32 serviced ...

Areas in Hokkaido saw some of the sharpest rises in land prices in 2024, thanks largely to foreign visitors who have ...

Singaporean fund, Patience Capital Group, plans to transform Myoko, Japan with a $1.4 billion mega-resort. While promising ...

According to statistics from the towns of Kutchan and Niseko that make up the area, the total number of visitors was 2.9 million in fiscal 2023. However, growing numbers of visitors mean long ...

It’s 7:30 a.m., and Japan’s Niseko mountain range sits in the distance, on the other side of a hotel window. Downstairs, the ...

Setsu Niseko, which is close to the major ski resort Hirafu and was completed after Covid, and Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono - if you want a personal and luxurious stay, you'll find excellent ...

Niseko ski resort in Hokkaido, Japan. YANG WEI / FOR CHINA DAILY Many ski resorts in Japan are facing difficulty in staying open. As the number of domestic skiers and snowboarders declines ...

It may not have the bravado of some of Niseko’s fanciest ski-in, ski-out hotels, but that doesn’t matter: the ACE Family Quad Lift is a two-minute walk away, accessed via a carpark at the ...