Hakuba, Japan Travel Blogs

Ski Trip to Hakuba
Mar 8, 2005 (22 photos)

... rentals (don't ask!), two meals, a ski locker, and of course, a room for one night at the Hotel Green Plaza in Hakuba. The hotel backed onto a ski area called "Hakuba Cortina", which was not the largest place in Hakuba by any means, but was quite enough ...

Brilliant canyoning!
Jun 11, 2008 (30 photos)

We've come to the ski resort of Happo One in Hakuba for a walk and some canyoning.  Firstly the walking.  We went up a chairlift or three and climbed up to a nice lake that still had some snow on top.  Quite nice, although better in ...

Hakuba - Pearl of the Japanese Alps
May 28, 2008 (8 photos)

The primary purpose for this post is to put up a few pictures of the Japan Alps that we saw while visiting.  Hakuba is one of the skiing resorts in the Japan Alps, about 2 hours from Nagano, where the Winter Olympics of 1998 were held.  There are ...

Let's Off Road
Sep 16, 2006

So I'm in Hakuba in the Alps, there's no snow, what is there to do? Well the answer is more bike riding, although this time on mountain bikes. Pete and I set out about 10:30 in the morning, advised by Tomi who runs the hostel that a nice ride was around ...

Please let it snow! I will pay in carbon credits!
Jan 27, 2007 (5 photos)

Japan was fab - am now a strong intermediate skiier says chad, rather than lower intermediate. so loving myself sick with that Note that is all mizzie wrote!

Snow in the Japanese Alps.
Jan 3, 2008

Super speedy bullet train ride to the Southern Japanese Alps stopping at Nagano before arriving by bus to to the resort town of Hakuba. Wonderful snowcapped scenery. Walked around a bit, had a snowball fight then went to bed.

Japanese Alps
Apr 2, 2007 (2 photos)

We decided to head to the Japanese Alps, for you can guess it snowboarding ....... oh yea. It took 3 trains and a little longer than expected, 3 trains and 5 hours. It also would have helped if we didn't bypass the station we had to get off at, have to ...

mont karamatsu
Oct 22, 2008 (3 photos)

Parie en randonnee tres top ce matin car il n'y a qu'un seul train qui vas vers la station ou la randonnee commence. une fois arriver a la montagne,  on doit prendre un gondole et 2 chair lift pour se rendre au point de depart du sentier. De la je me ...

5 days trip in hakuba 2009
Sep 12, 2009

first day; we had to catch a bus from shinjuku to hakuba which took us 4.5 hrs to get there. when we arrived at hakuba we've arranged a pick up from the hotel that we will be staying for the next 5 days. (hotel phoenix wing) we were greeted by a nice young ...

Hakuba , les aples!!
Oct 20, 2008

... apres une heures et demi de plus. J'ai donc fait plus de 7 heures de train dans ma journee, pour me rendre ici, a hakuba, pres de nagano, ou les olympiques d'hiver de 1998 ont eu lieux. La temprature est beaucoup plus clemente, environ 18 le jours et 10 ...

Hakuba: heart of the Japanese Alps
Feb 5, 2009 (18 photos)

... area like the back of his hand. Our prayers did bring us up to two feet on top of the mountain on our last night however, so we had to go up for a few runs before we headed back to Tokyo the next day. Experiencing Hakuba with our mates was brilliant!

mont Goryu
Oct 21, 2008 (3 photos)

Aujoud'hui, il fait tres beau, pas trop chaud,18 celcius. Je suis partie en randonnee au mont Goryu, la base de la montagne est a 5 min a pied de l'auberge. C'est 6.2 km pour se rendre au sommet de 2007m d'altitude. Apres avoir marcher mes 12.4 km, je ...