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HOKKAIDO Globe-trotting riders will be pleased to know Niseko United will be joining the Ikon Pass connecting 38 iconic mounta...

A powder pocket, sitting smack dab on the border of Nagano and Niigata prefectures, has recently become a hot spot for snow lover...

Lotte Arai Resort will definitely become a hotspot for western skiers and boarders over the next few years.

Just a few hours north of Tokyo by Shinkansen (bullet train) await remote mountains and the countryside of Tohoku’s Akita and Iwate prefectures.

Every winter a growing number of powder seekers arrive on Japan’s shores and then head to the mountain in search of the famous bo...

Enter the all-season world of Shinetsu Shinzekyo in Nagano and Niigata with outdoor professionals

You can’t miss them in their style-less camouflage clothes and olive helmets. Their straight white skis, fat white fiberglass poles with monster rings and leather-strap bindings holding in what looks like a light leather mountain boot.

After over three decades racing, Olympic skier Akira Sasaki returns home to enjoy Hokkaido's backcountry to the fullest