Best Visiting Spot List

Enjoy the world of glittering snow and relax in hot spring baths. The resort to enjoy with friends and family.

Ski mecca ""Shigakogen"" is popular area for skiers and snowboarders. Superb powder snow for everyone to play in and enjoy!

For all the hard-core winter sports fans! Enjoy the ultra-powder “Microfine Snow,” and steep, compacted icy roads and parks.

Good access in only 5 minutes from the Sonohara interchange on the Chuo expressway! Trails are restricted to skiers! The easy way to enjoy playing in the snow and winter mountains!

Tightly packed with foods, glass products, and more

ROCK WOOD HOTEL&SPA For a leisurely and superior break where you can forget the routine of daily life.

Every Tuesday is free ladies' day this season!

You can ski down a 4.3km long slope, enjoying Pacific Ocean views. It is safe driving to the ski resort because the approacing road is facilitated with a snow melting feature.

It locates in Kitashiga, Nagano, and abundant of natural snow falls. This ski resort is the combination of 2 ski resorts which creates one big snow resort that covers 97ha land and equips 24 slopes and 8 lifts.

A museum exhibiting works of art under the theme of pumpkins, with a focus on the work of world-famous artist Yayoi Kusama. The museum also has a cafe. [Yayoi Kusama] A painter, avant-garde sculptor and novelist born in Nagano. She began painting pictures based on hallucinations she had in her early childhood. She went to the USA in 1957 and stayed in New York for 18 years, and has also represented Japan at Venice Biennial in 1993. After her retrospective exhibition tour around the US, she held a large-scale, one-woman exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, in 1999. In 2001, she won the Asahi Prize. Her work has appeared at the Yokohama Triennale. Access: From Yugawara Station, take the bus headed to Okuyugawara or Fudo-Taki for about 5 minutes We are five minutes' walk from the Shogakko-Mae bus stop

The powder snow area within 2 hours from Tokyo.

Fully open snow area for families to advanced skiers, turning usual days off into something extraordinary.

A fun spot for both kids and adults inside New Chitose Airport

A temple with a living, breathing aesthetic sense of the tea ceremony

Located inside the Yugawara Tourist Hall, this museum exhibits the works and information panels of various writers and artists who have visited Yugawara since the Meiji era, such as Doppo Kunikida, Soseki Natsume , Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akiko Yosano, Toson Shimazaki, and Junichiro Tanizaki. It also features a walking map for sights connected to Yugawara’s literary history, a brief history of modern literature in Yugawara, as well as panels of photos showing Yugawara in the past and present, and temples, shrines and stone statues. Access: From Yugawara Station, take the bus headed to Okuyugawara or Fudo-Taki for about 10 minutes We are right next to the Ochiaibashi bus stop

North side slopes with a panorama view of Japan's Sea are fantastic. 4km long course is perfect for families and enjoyable for beginners.

Check out an Ageya (elegant-restaurant) of the red-light district from the Edo period

A beautiful tourist sake brewery inside a forest with adjoining brewery and product museums. Home of the original Chichibu Nishiki brand sake.

Shiraito Falls is named for its appearance that resembles myriads of hanging silk threads. It is Natural Treasure and was selected as one of Japan’s Top 100 Waterfalls.

It boasts snow quality and thoughoutly groomed slopes. Kojiro-Land is renewed in this season! Off-piste is open!