www.hakuba.jp/iwatake/en | Hokujo Iwatake, Hakuba-mura, Kitaazumi-gun | 2+81-261-72-2780 | Open 8:00-17:00 | Travelling times to Iwatake Snow Field Tokyo: 3 hrs (train & bus) , Osaka: 4 hrs 40 min (train)
PANORAMIC PLEASURE
Enjoying a 360º panorama of the Northern Alps and Hakuba Basin, Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field has 25 courses down the 1,289-metre Mt Iwatake. Mountainside, the beginners’ area around the summit, is the place for mellow high-altitude cruising with amazing scenery.
The Hillside area follows a wide creek bed with banks to carve up, and also has an off-piste subsection in the shadow of the mountain; for great transition, hit the the Iwatake Love Snow Park.
REGION INFORMATION
Nagano
| Temperature: 13
Nagano is known as one of Japan’s most popular snow holiday destinations that hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics game. It’s a landlocked prefecture that’s home to famous hot spring towns like Nozawa Onsen and the adorable hot-spring-loving snow monkeys.
