Madarao

It’s been a wild few days for ski resorts in Japan, with winter storms and a “once in a decade cold snap” delivering some of the heaviest snowfalls in recent …
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Madarao Mountain Resort, one of Japan’s top powder skiing destinations, has been sold to Singapore-based Patience Capital Group (PCG), a real estate investment manager specialising in the acquisition of tourism …
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We have a lot of admiration for the family team behind Snowball Chalet, a gorgeous lodge in Madarao, Japan with a seemingly endless line of smitten past guests. So when …
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Active Life hotels General Manager Ben Howard first stepped into thigh deep powder in Hokkaido 2010. A decade later, and after trips to more than thirty of Japan’s most popular …
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The social media noise from Japan this winter has been hard to ignore. In this new world with border closures and lockdowns, many of us have turned to our screens …
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A Japanese ski resort that is set to come under the new ownership of Australian-owned Active Life Group in 2019/20 will have the “longest terrain park in Japan, possibly the …
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If you were planning to ski world-class powder in as many resorts as possible, you’d be hard pressed to find a better area of Japan to begin than the Joetsu-Myoko …
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Madarao has further bolstered its reputation as one of Japan’s top powder skiing destinations with the announcement that it will be adding a 600 metre tree skiing zone to its …
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Buying property in ski resorts is increasingly popular with international investors not only because of the booming inbound ski tourism market but because Japanese ski property has some fundamentals that …
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Madarao has released its 2019/20 season preview, showcasing the snow that is rapidly making it one of Japan’s most attractive ski resorts for powder-hungry skiers and snowboarders. For more information …
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