THE SNOW WAS GENTLY FALLING when we arrived in Furano close to midnight. But the skies had cleared by morning, leaving behind ...

Elite Havens encourages avid snow-bunnies to book those trips as early as now in order to secure their preferred Niseko ...

Hoshino Resorts Tomamu, located in central Hokkaido, features a ski area and tower hotels that are popular with tourists from China and other countries. Shanghai Yuyuan Tourist Mart acquired the ...

Nozo Hotel is practically brand-new when I arrive for the start of the spring ski season in late February. The 78-room property, owned by a Malaysian property developer, opened in ...

International tourists, especially Australians, started to arrive en masse in the famous Japanese ski resort of Niseko in the ...

He said abandoned ski resorts — and those "just hanging on" — can be seen in rural Honshu and Hokkaido. "I've seen over the last 20 years an incredible change," he said. Efforts are now ...

Japan’s Hokkaido Airports has secured several new ... “The Qantas launch is expected to capture the strong winter ski season demand, which has been growing in recent years,” Kenjiro ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

Watch the magical moment a tiny Siberian flying squirrel soars through the air in this brilliant clip. Elena Egorov, a ...

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

SHIMUKAPPU, Hokkaido—A JR express train was filled ... featuring views of “twin towers” halfway up a ski slope, the tourists departed from the train. In Shimukappu, 538, or 34 percent ...