Skiing at Niseko Grand Hirafu should be on every skier's bucket list. There’s enough snow to go around, and then some.

Since the 1972 Sapporo Olympics, skiing has been big news in Japan and for decades now, this destination has sat firmly atop ...

Japan's main islands are roughly bisected by mountains as tall as 12,000 feet from south to north. Among the country's over 500 ski areas, the most popular are on the northern island of Hokkaido and ...

These are Niseko problems. The powder capital of Asia, and some say the world. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has faced a chilling reality in recent years: warming winters, diminished snowfall ...

Japan’s Yeti Snow Park is the first resort to open for the 27th year in a row, but with all man-made snow. The race to begin the 2025/26 ski season had North American resorts like Keystone and ...

For the legendary "Japow," the country's famously soft snow, set your sights on Hokkaido destinations like Niseko, Rusutsu, and Tomamu. Take an après-ski soak in the hot springs at resorts like Nozawa ...

Japan has some of the best powder in the world, and when you're getting first tracks off the lift, well, you're living large. But what happens when you can't actually get off the lift? One skier, ...

Niseko, Japan (CNN) — I am somewhere in the trees. Thigh-deep in powder. Stomping through the snow. Not riding my board as I should be but carrying it. Muttering to myself about taking the wrong line ...