skiing

It may be spring in Japan but you can still ski in select ski resorts open all the way to Golden Week.

This snow season has all the makings of an epic year for Tokyo residents and travelers. Tons of snow, discounted travel fares and...

Hokkaido is the promised land for powderhounds everywhere. It is situated to be the perfect catcher’s mitt for Siberia’s low pres...

Get a head start on the ski season or find a place to spend the holidays! Most of our favorite ski resorts in northern Japan open...

Lotte Arai Resort will definitely become a hotspot for western skiers and boarders over the next few years.

Just a few hours north of Tokyo by Shinkansen (bullet train) await remote mountains and the countryside of Tohoku’s Akita and Iwate prefectures.

Daisuke Sasaki has made a name for himself in the world of big-mountain skiing.

If a picture speaks a thousand words, Yuske Hirota’s life is a novel.

Every winter a growing number of powder seekers arrive on Japan’s shores and then head to the mountain in search of the famous bo...

You can’t miss them in their style-less camouflage clothes and olive helmets. Their straight white skis, fat white fiberglass poles with monster rings and leather-strap bindings holding in what looks like a light leather mountain boot.

The life of Scandinavian skier and artist Sandra Fransson is a mosaic of her lifelong passion for skiing and art, inspiration from the outdoors and the continuing legacy of her brother.

Two Dutch powder junkies enjoy their first taste of fresh "Wasabi Powder." Big, white, fluffy snowflakes dance through a pitch...