From Hokkaido's pristine powder-snow peaks to the neon-lit drinking warrens of downtown Osaka, inbound tourists are flocking ...

Foreign visitors to Japan rose 33% this past winter from pre-pandemic levels. Many are flocking to the powdery slopes of ski areas like Niseko and Hakuba which experienced a record number of ...

The most popular skiing can be split into two main areas: Nagano/Hakuba (main island), and the various ski resorts around Sapporo like Niseko and Rusutsu (on Hokkaido). Of course, there are dozens of ...

THREE winters from now, Japan's snowy Myoko highlands will be home to a US$1.4bil (RM6.29bil) mega-resort built by a ...

Obihiro city in Hokkaido recorded 124 centimeters of snow ... budgets because of insufficient funds for snow removal. Hakuba village in Nagano Prefecture, one of the most popular winter ...