Hakuba Goryu Snow Resort is in Hakuba Valley, Nagano Prefecture. After hosting the 1998 Winter Olympics, Nagano has become a well-known ski destination. Hakuba Goryu provides a fantastic experience ...

Police in Nagano Prefecture said on Tuesday they rescued three foreign backcountry skiers who became lost on a mountain the ...

Local police said they believed the men were off-piste skiing separately ... in place for the area, after a cold snap last week which covered much of the region in snow. Nagano Prefecture, which ...

Boasting 18 ski resorts, Shiga Kogen, north of Tokyo, drew 810,000 visitors in fiscal 2023. Yamanouchi is also home to ...

Some ski resorts have taken measures to prevent ... Yoshikazu Ito, a mountain guide, said the Hakuba area of Nagano Prefecture attracts backcountry skiers and snowboarders because a lot of snow ...

A 50-yer-old man died after he was buried by snow while backcountry skiing in a national forest near a ski resort at Nozawa Onsen Village, Nagano Prefecture, on Monday. According to police, Norikazu ...

The 31-year-old American was one of two men killed in the slide in the central prefecture of Nagano on January 29. It happened in an unpatrolled area near a ski resort in the village of Otari.

Ski resorts across Japan are struggling to put ... Jan. 29 of himself skiing among trees on the Northern Alps in Otari, Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan. “This is what brings me back to ...