Ski/Board Rentals Central Snow Sports We always recommend Central Snow Sports. Great quality gear, and they will come and pick you up at your accommodation, take you to get outfitted and then deliver you back again once you’re set up. Booking in advance isn’t absolutely essential (things can be sorted out here on the ground as well) but may be advisable if you’re visiting during peak season or have people with unusually large feet etc. https://hakuba.centralsnowsports.com.au/ Rhythm Hakuba Top quality ski and board rentals as well as tune-ups, boot fitting,  waxing and a good selection of retail wear.  Located in the Wadano Visitors Centre. https://www.rhythmjapan.com/rhythm-hakuba/  

5-9:30PM 7 DAYS A WEEK – 080-6933-1077   We’ve been making fine handmade Napoli style pizzas since 2011. The dough is handmixed and our bases are all rolled by hand. Our tangy pizza sauce is an ancient sicilian recipe handed down through generations of Sicilian grandmothers. The pizzas are then topped with the choicest freshest ingredients and baked on polished lava stone from Mount Asama. 石のプレートで焼いた，生地から手作り，トッピングにもこだわりました。 Please come and eat in at our restaurant or contact us for delivery options. レストランを営業しています。どぞご来店ください。宅配もします。 Stone Baked Pizza, hand stretched to order and topped with only the finest ingredients. MORINO CLASSICS MARGHERITA 　マルゲリータ　¥1950 SUPREMO シュプリーム　¥2350 BBQ CHICKEN バーベキューチキン　¥2150 HAWAIIAN ハワイアン　¥2150 VEGETARIAN　ベジタリアン　 ¥2150 PEPPERONI 　ペパロニ　¥2150 PLAIN CHEESE 　プレーンチーズ　¥1650 GARLIC & HERB FLAT BREAD ハーブとガーリックピザ　¥1650   NAPOLI ¥2150 Napolitana sauce, mozzarella, basil, capers, olives, anchovies, oregano.   THE WA-SHOKU FEAST ¥2150 Napolitana sauce, chicken, sweetcorn, nori seaweed, yakiniku sauce, kewpie mayo   GARLIC PRAWN ¥2350 Garlic oil, tiger prawns, red peppers, mozzarella, capers. VEGANS We’ve got your back! You can go cheese free on any of our vegetarian pizzas   SOMETHING TO DIP YOUR CRUSTS INTO We’ve got small tubs of BBQ Sauce; Yakiniku Sauce; Garlic Mayo; Sweet Chilli. ¥100 each or 3 for ¥250   FREE DELIVERY TO WADANO, HAPPO, ECHOLAND, MISORANO AND IWATAKE 和田野、八方、エコランド、みそらの、と岩岳は宅配無料です。

Beginners are well catered for in Hakuba. The Sakka area of Happo is a short walk from the lodge and provides a perfect place to learn. There is also a roped off kiddies fun area where kids can safely toboggan or ride inner tubes. All the mountains in Hakuba have beginner areas. Tsugaike has a huge beginner’s area of long wide runs. Iwatake is mostly a beginners and intermediate mountain, Happo Sakka is 4 minutes walk from the Lodge, Goryu has a beautiful beginners run at the top of the mountain with stunning 360degree panoramic views. Aokiko has beautiful beginners runs leading down through forest to a lake and finally Hakuba highland and Minekata are almost exclusively beginners resorts and as they lie across the valley from the main peaks have incredible views. Intermediates have 12 mountains to choose from with every kind of run imaginable from long wide rolling reds with over a kilometer of vertical that start in the high alpine to steep mogul fields to intimate winding runs through the forest. A lot of the resorts only groom half the run after the frequent dumps of snow leaving powder at the sides to practice your snorkeling technique!

Hakuba has some great parks. The best is right next to us at Happo, but there are also great parks at Hakuba 47, Tsugaike and Yanaba.   Happo High Cascade Park High cascade website This is a great park located on the Kita-One section of the mountain above Sakka. With it’s own dedicated lift and High cascade cafe, the atmosphere is great and the views are the best on Happo. The park prides itself on it’s safety record. The features on offer include a Ufo box, two twelve metre kickers, two 15 metre kickers,  a few 6 metre kickers and  a hip, There are also a selection of boxes and rails, including batteship rail and a variety of  straight rails.   Hakuba 47 Park Hakuba 47 park website The 47 pipe is quite nice and gets better every year but the range of jumps is superb including usually a 12m kicker, a couple of 8m kickers, a spine, some tabletops, and an assortment of smaller jumps for learners. And for the jibbers, you’re well catered to with a variety of rails and boxes (straight, kinked, rainbow, s-shaped, you name it!).   Tsugaike park Tsugaike park website This is the highest park in Hakuba at over 1600m. This ensures you can ride it until Golden week in May. Theres  12m, 7m, 6m and 5m kickers; rainbow box, 6m narrow box, 6m staright rail, front-sidebank, backside bank and a knoll. The views of the northern alps are stunning from up here!   Yanaba Yanaba park website Yanaba is down at the south end of the Hakuba valley overlooking Aokiko lake and the northern Alps. The whole ski resort is one big park and they have the widest selection of jumps, hits and rails in the valley including Two 8m kickers,front side hip, […]

Zenkoji temple is the most important pilgrimage site in central Honshu. It houses the first image of Buddha to reach Japan in the 7th century and has a 1400year history. The building itself is huge and has the largest thatched roof in Japan. Under the temple is a pitch black maze visitors can enter that offers the way to nirvana for those who navigate its passageway and find the key.

The Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival is a must see if you find yourself in the vicinity mid-January. It`s one of the three most famous fire festivals in Japan & certainly one of the crazier spectacles you`ll ever witness! It`s held on January 15th every year to pray for a plentiful harvest, health and good fortune in the coming year. The festival dates back to 1863 and involves a very colorful combination of snow, fire & sake. We run a bus tour from Hakuba to the Nozawa Fire Festival every year so send us a mail anytime if interested!! During this festival the twenty-five and forty-two year old men from the village play a very important role. An old belief in Japan dictates that, for men, these years are unlucky. So all of Nozawa`s twenty-five and forty-two year old men, in their inauspicious ages, are made to construct a huge wooden shrine known as “the Shaden” that reaches 18 meters high. It takes roughly 100 villagers to build the shrine. The trees are cut down in October and brought down from the mountain, through the village, on January 13th. After the Shaden has been constructed, the priest from Kosuge shrine performs a ceremony endowing it with a God. Along with the Shaden there are an average of five Tôrô (dedicatory lantern poles) erected every year. These poles are made by families in the village to celebrate the birth of their first son. The Tôrô are offered to the Gods in a prayer for health and good fortune. The festivities begin with the lighting of the fire by the twenty-five and forty-two year old men. A small group of men carry a torch, which is lit by striking two stones together, from the Kôno residence to the festival grounds. The torch is used to start […]

Matsumoto castle is the oldest surviving castle from the age of the feudal warring states in Japan dating back to 1592. The view from the surrounding moat to the North Alps beyond is breathtaking. The inside of the castle includes many items from japans feudal past.