Happo-One – Hakuba

Happo-One-Hakuba is one of more than 500 ski resorts in Japan. It is located between the Nagano Prefecture in the Japanese Mountains at an altitude between 760 and 1,831 m with a difference of 1,071 m. It is one of the nearest ski resorts to Nagano, which hosted the 1998 Winter Olympic Games. Another feature of Happo-One-Hakuba ski resort is that it is the second-biggest ski area in Japan after the neighboring Shigakogen with more than 50 km of slopes and more than 20 ski lifts in total together with Niseko United, and Myoko Suginohara, Zao Onsen, and Hakuba Iwatake — all of them have the same number of slopes (but not the lifts). The resort is best suitable for intermediate skiers — most of its slopes are red. For easy and advanced skiers, it offers more than 10 km of blue and black slopes each. The most common type of ski lift is a chairlift. The Shigakogen season is from late November to early May in general.