Where to stay, ski, and other travel resources for your resort and backcountry ski trip in Hokkaido, Japan

skiing in hokkaido, japan

Tokyo Pit Stop

Visiting Tokyo on your trip? Here’s how to ship your skis to your resort in the meantime, use transit, set up eSIMs, etc.

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central hokkaido

A guide to skiing in Furano and the Central Hokkaido backcountry

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west hokkaido

A guide to skiing in Niseko, Rusutsu, and Kiroro

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the Google map

Places I skied at, stayed at, and ate at that did not suck

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tldr for ski traveling in japan

The TL;DR of everything here for people with a bummer attention span. If you will read one thing on this site, read this.

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communicating in japan for gaijins

General phrases in Japanese to say or that people may say to you so that you’re not a deer in headlights.

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