Videos

Submissions to this year’s Niseko Shootout Short Film Festival were highly entertaining, and if you have an hour and fifty-two minutes to spend watching them, we’d highly recommend it.

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A few years back, we published a guide to ski resorts near Tokyo, listing some of the most convenient resorts to get to from Japan’s capital. Youtuber Didi & Bryan …
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If we were to try and describe a perfect day on skis in Japan, it might look a lot like the footage in the video above. The day was captured …
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We’re officially into spring, and that means that Japanese ski resorts are about to make the transformation from powder paradise to mogul mayhem. For some, it’s a transition from one …
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Filmmaker and photographer Neil Hartmann has been based in Hokkaido since ’91, and his Youtube channel is a consistent source of entertainment and information on adventure in the region (Neil’s …
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It’s been another cracking season in Hakuba and virtually every other ski resort in Japan, though sadly border closures have meant that many have been getting their powder fix from …
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Beijing 2022’s “culture-connected” slopestyle course has taken inspiration from the Great Wall of China, with a replica wall running alongside the top sections of the course to protect riders from the prevailing westerly winds.
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Chaotic scenes have been captured on video, as a chairlift in South Korea’s Bears Town Ski Resort malfunctioned, causing the lift to slide backwards for over a minute. Passengers were …
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In this episode, Butterfield he lands in Zao Onsen after a “crazy snow storm”, where he encounters Zao’s famous snow monsters, an eerie phenomenon that leaves trees completely caked with snow. 
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We love the simplicity of packing everything into a van for a winter road trip, so this latest VANLIFE IN JAPAN series from Ryan Butterfield, owner of the Nozawa Onsen-based …
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