My husband and I paid $115 each for Gran Class tickets on Japan's Shinkansen bullet train. The seats and extra perks made a ...

Mount Hakuba-Norikuradake is just one of several Japanese mountains that provide ideal conditions for backcountry skiing and snowboarding. But these scenic and unpatrolled areas, which lure winter ...

The viral clip shows the snowboarder aggressively approaching a woman seen holding a cigarette and a can of beer at a ski resort ... at the Happo One Resort in Hakuba. If so, there are clear ...

MATSUMOTO, Japan >> As the number of domestic skiers and snowboarders declines significantly, many ski resorts in Japan are ...

Ski resorts in Japan are prized for having some ... They headed to a resort in the Hakuba Valley that had hosted events for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. They took a lift to the resort ...

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 ...

It begins almost 24 years ago, on Valentine’s Day morning of 1998, in the alpine resort of Hakuba, 30 miles from the Olympic city of Nagano, and where I was covering the Games, and specifically, ...

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

There is still time to enjoy Japan’s winter delights – from ski runs to spectacular sights of frozen waterfalls – book your ...

There are a dizzying number of slopes to choose from. For skiing outside of Hakuba, Nozawa Onsen Snow Resort ranks high on our list. Nestled on Mt. Kenashi, this resort boasts over 3,500 feet of ...