It’s affordable, has great powder, and is just a few hours from Tokyo. What else could you ask for? Hakuba Valley is located in Japan's Nagano Prefecture, which is just three hours from Tokyo by ...

TOKYO >> Hotels and restaurants in the popular Hakuba ski resort village are packed to capacity amid a surge in international tourists on the slopes, and visitors to the village are expected to grow ...

HAKUBA VALLEY, Japan – Snow crab legs protruded from a steaming bowl of miso soup accompanied by a golden-brown portion of takoyaki, a battered ball stuffed with grilled octopus. What did this ...

Two iconic ski resorts, Niseko Hirafu and Hakuba Iwatake, are introducing brand new gondolas, promising to enhance the visitor experience and modernize the Japanese ski scene. Niseko’s New Hirafu ...

RUSUTSU, HOKKAIDO, Japan — Some people have snow-riding bucket lists; I have a Mount Rushmore: Ski the European Alps (checked that one off as a kid first learning to ski in Bavaria when my U.S. Air ...

A Housing Japan Group Company, Resort Japan K.K., announces the grand opening of Cedars Hotel on Sunday, February 15, 2026, in Hakuba Valley, Nagano, Japan. Located in the Tsugaike area of Otari ...