Faced with soaring ticket prices and bare slopes at many U.S. resorts, Americans are flocking to the island of Hokkaido, ...

"Japow" really is all it's cracked up to be. The first thing I noticed about Niseko wasn’t the landscape—it was the snow. It looked different, finer somehow, like sifted flour or powdered sugar. By my ...

Skiing at Niseko Tokyu Grand HIRAFU should be on every skier's bucket list. There’s enough snow to go around, and then some. I had the opportunity to visit during mid-December for the opening of a new ...

I am somewhere in the trees. Thigh-deep in powder. Stomping through the snow. Not riding my board as I should be but carrying it. Muttering to myself about taking the wrong line and getting stuck, I ...

Snow falls softly and endlessly in Niseko, so light it feels unreal, turning northern Japan into a dreamscape. This famously ...

As record snowfall transforms Niseko into a pristine winter wonderland, Elite Havens invites travellers to experience Japan’s most coveted ski destination with exclusive last-minute offers on luxury ...

NISEKO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nikko Style Niseko HANAZONO, part of Okura Nikko Hotels’ Nikko Style lifestyle-hotel brand, is pleased to announce that it won the “World’s Best New Ski Hotel” award at ...

However, this season, industry insiders were salivating as the La Niña weather pattern — a cyclical period of cooler weather — pointed to a return to the massive snow dumps that made the island of ...

The World Ski Awards are regarded as one of the most prestigious international awards in the global ski tourism industry. Winners in each category are determined based on votes from ski industry ...