Hakuba Customer Reviews

I would go back, excellent snow, better than Europe in recent years, good value for money. Good selection of local Japanese restaurants.

Excellent range of resorts with good transport links from Hakuba. We enjoyed Happo-One, Hakuba 47 and Iwatake. Perhaps a little less to do in Hakuba itself vs Whistler or major European resorts and the town itself is quite spread out, but the evening bus service is good and reasonably priced. The resorts were large and lift queues non-existent or very short. Lifts themselves were dated vs European standards, rather slow and many without safety bars. Signs for runs were surprisingly (for Japan) not very clear, piste maps often required! Don't expect a very Japanese experience, many bars and restaurants were run by Australians and many of the skiers/snowboards on holiday were also Australian or New Zealand.