Photo: @Go_Uryu
Photo: @Go_Uryu
G'day, and welcome to Niseko, Australia's Japan's highest profile snow sports desitinations. It's no surprise that a resort blessed with 15 metres of annual snowfall has quickly become a favourite of international thrill seekers, particularly Australians. But while Niseko is no longer the secret powder haven it once was, don't let that...
Known by the somewhat infantile moniker of 'the belly button town' for its geographic location smack bang (2 onomatopoeia points) in the middle of Hokkaido, Furano is less busy than its more famous North Island sibling of Niseko. As such, its reaps numerous benefits for its relative obscurity. Chief amongst them is the lesser crowds, especially amongst...
Rusutsu is at once bizarre and brilliant. Lying 80km west of Sapporo, the resort boasts an embarrassment of powder-fine snow, averaging over 14 metres of snowfall annually. Its central hotel complex, consisting of two hotel wings and a tower, is the dominating presence at the resort, and contains a veritable wonderland of Japanese idiosynchronism including brightly...
Known by the somewhat infantile moniker of 'the belly button town' for its geographic location smack bang (2 onomatopoeia points) in the middle of Hokkaido, Furano is less busy than its more famous North Island sibling of Niseko. As such, its reaps numerous benefits for its relative obscurity. Chief amongst them is the lesser crowds, especially amongst...
Rusutsu is at once bizarre and brilliant. Lying 80km west of Sapporo, the resort boasts an embarrassment of powder-fine snow, averaging over 14 metres of snowfall annually. Its central hotel complex, consisting of two hotel wings and a tower, is the dominating presence at the resort, and contains a veritable wonderland of Japanese idiosynchronism including brightly...
G'day, and welcome to Niseko, Australia's Japan's highest profile snow sports desitinations. It's no surprise that a resort blessed with 15 metres of annual snowfall has quickly become a favourite of international thrill seekers, particularly Australians. But while Niseko is no longer the secret powder haven it once was, don't let that...
Known by the somewhat infantile moniker of 'the belly button town' for its geographic location smack bang (2 onomatopoeia points) in the middle of Hokkaido, Furano is less busy than its more famous North Island sibling of Niseko. As such, its reaps numerous benefits for its relative obscurity. Chief amongst them is the lesser crowds, especially amongst...
Rusutsu is at once bizarre and brilliant. Lying 80km west of Sapporo, the resort boasts an embarrassment of powder-fine snow, averaging over 14 metres of snowfall annually. Its central hotel complex, consisting of two hotel wings and a tower, is the dominating presence at the resort, and contains a veritable wonderland of Japanese idiosynchronism including brightly...
G'day, and welcome to Niseko, Australia's Japan's highest profile snow sports desitinations. It's no surprise that a resort blessed with 15 metres of annual snowfall has quickly become a favourite of international thrill seekers, particularly Australians. But while Niseko is no longer the secret powder haven it once was, don't let that...
Known by the somewhat infantile moniker of 'the belly button town' for its geographic location smack bang (2 onomatopoeia points) in the middle of Hokkaido, Furano is less busy than its more famous North Island sibling of Niseko. As such, its reaps numerous benefits for its relative obscurity. Chief amongst them is the lesser crowds, especially amongst...
Rusutsu is at once bizarre and brilliant. Lying 80km west of Sapporo, the resort boasts an embarrassment of powder-fine snow, averaging over 14 metres of snowfall annually. Its central hotel complex, consisting of two hotel wings and a tower, is the dominating presence at the resort, and contains a veritable wonderland of Japanese idiosynchronism including brightly...
G'day, and welcome to Niseko, Australia's Japan's highest profile snow sports desitinations. It's no surprise that a resort blessed with 15 metres of annual snowfall has quickly become a favourite of international thrill seekers, particularly Australians. But while Niseko is no longer the secret powder haven it once was, don't let that...
G'day, and welcome to Niseko, Australia's Japan's highest profile snow sports desitinations. It's no surprise that a resort blessed with 15 metres of annual snowfall has quickly become a favourite of international thrill seekers, particularly Australians. But while Niseko is no longer the secret powder haven it once was, don't let that...
Known by the somewhat infantile moniker of 'the belly button town' for its geographic location smack bang (2 onomatopoeia points) in the middle of Hokkaido, Furano is less busy than its more famous North Island sibling of Niseko. As such, its reaps numerous benefits for its relative obscurity. Chief amongst them is the lesser crowds, especially amongst...
Rusutsu is at once bizarre and brilliant. Lying 80km west of Sapporo, the resort boasts an embarrassment of powder-fine snow, averaging over 14 metres of snowfall annually. Its central hotel complex, consisting of two hotel wings and a tower, is the dominating presence at the resort, and contains a veritable wonderland of Japanese idiosynchronism including brightly...
Rusutsu is at once bizarre and brilliant. Lying 80km west of Sapporo, the resort boasts an embarrassment of powder-fine snow, averaging over 14 metres of snowfall annually. Its central hotel complex, consisting of two hotel wings and a tower, is the dominating presence at the resort, and contains a veritable wonderland of Japanese idiosynchronism including brightly...
G'day, and welcome to Niseko, Australia's Japan's highest profile snow sports desitinations. It's no surprise that a resort blessed with 15 metres of annual snowfall has quickly become a favourite of international thrill seekers, particularly Australians. But while Niseko is no longer the secret powder haven it once was, don't let that...
Known by the somewhat infantile moniker of 'the belly button town' for its geographic location smack bang (2 onomatopoeia points) in the middle of Hokkaido, Furano is less busy than its more famous North Island sibling of Niseko. As such, its reaps numerous benefits for its relative obscurity. Chief amongst them is the lesser crowds, especially amongst...
Known by the somewhat infantile moniker of 'the belly button town' for its geographic location smack bang (2 onomatopoeia points) in the middle of Hokkaido, Furano is less busy than its more famous North Island sibling of Niseko. As such, its reaps numerous benefits for its relative obscurity. Chief amongst them is the lesser crowds, especially amongst...
G'day, and welcome to Niseko, Australia's Japan's highest profile snow sports desitinations. It's no surprise that a resort blessed with 15 metres of annual snowfall has quickly become a favourite of international thrill seekers, particularly Australians. But while Niseko is no longer the secret powder haven it once was, don't let that...
Rusutsu is at once bizarre and brilliant. Lying 80km west of Sapporo, the resort boasts an embarrassment of powder-fine snow, averaging over 14 metres of snowfall annually. Its central hotel complex, consisting of two hotel wings and a tower, is the dominating presence at the resort, and contains a veritable wonderland of Japanese idiosynchronism including brightly...