Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan is renowned for the excellent quality of its snow - Anthony Brown / Alamy Since the 1972 Sapporo Olympics, skiing has been ...

The 10 Best Ski Resorts Near Nagoya offer easy access to slopes in Gifu and Nagano, with options for beginners, families and serious skiers.

Discover why Niseko is Japan’s most international ski resort. From legendary powder snow to global visitors, explore how ...

Gliding through waist-high powder, weaving between bamboo as a light dusting of snow drifts from a grey sky, it’s easy to see why Niseko has become such a popular ski region. Out on these slopes, ...

If you’re familiar with ski resorts on the East Coast in the United States then you will feel right at home on the slopes in the Chūgoku region of Japan, with its abundance of easy and intermediate ...

The number of operational ski resorts in Japan in 2025 fell to a record low, 40 percent down from the peak in 1999, due to a lack of snow caused by climate change and despite growing demand from ...