Hakuba Happo-One Snow Resort Overview
白馬八方尾根スキー場Hakuba Happo-One is Japan's most internationally known ski resort, on the flanks of the Northern Alps in Hakuba Village, Nagano. It hosted the alpine skiing events of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, the downhill, super-G and combined among them. Its 16 courses cover a 1,071-metre vertical drop and 220 hectares, fed by consistent Japow from Sea of Japan storms. The longest run is 8 km from summit to base, and the resort anchors the 11-resort Hakuba Valley, one of Asia's best-known ski areas.
Resort Location
Location of the resort on the map of Japan.
Resort highlights
- Access
- Gondola access Terrain park
- Onsen
- Open-air onsen Family onsen Ryokan stays Onsen nearby
- Season
- Long season Late closer
Snow Report
Snow Report →Average peak depth and the month it arrives, over every recorded season.
Typical base at the deepest half-month.
MeasuredClear skies
The share of a typical winter that is clear here, and the months the clear days fall in.
They lean late: close to half of them arrive in March. Across the 34 resorts tracked here, a typical winter holds between 2 and 11 clear days.
Checked against sunshine measured at Hakuba. The same station validates Hakuba Cortina Snow Resort, Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba47, Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field, Hakuba Norikura Onsen Snow Resort and Tsugaike Mountain Resort. This resort reads the same weather cell as Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba47 and Tsugaike Mountain Resort.
How a winter day is classified
Winter runs from December 1 to March 31. A day counts as Clear when modelled cloud cover is 30% or less, Partly Cloudy from 31 to 79%, and Overcast from 80% up. A day with 5 cm or more of snowfall counts as Snow, whatever the cloud cover.
Cloud cover comes from the ERA5 reanalysis for the weather cell this resort sits in. It is checked against hours of sunshine measured at the nearest reporting station, lower down the valley.
The modelled cloud is compared with the station’s measured sunshine on the 2,389 winter days that have both. When the two agree poorly, the clear-day figure is given as a range instead of a single count.
The classification describes cloud over the resort’s weather cell, but nobody measures visibility on the hill. A cell that reads clear can still leave the upper mountain in cloud all day.
Mountain
Mountain →The spread from this mountain’s gentlest run to its steepest, ranked against the other mountains with pitch data.
Its runs range from 7.1° to 27.0°.
EstimatedLifts
Every active lift, ranked by the riders it carries uphill in an hour.
21 active lifts carrying skiers uphill.
EstimatedRiders per hour (estimated)
Getting Here
Getting Here →One recommended public-transport route from each gateway city.
4 gateway cities with a confirmed public route.
Measured- Tokyo → Nagano (Shinkansen) + Alpico bus: board:Tokyo Station — Tokyo Station — (北陸新幹線, 85 min) — Nagano Station — (Nagano–Hakuba Express Bus, 75 min) — Hakuba Happo Bus Terminal
- Shinkansen via Nagano + Alpico bus (from Tokyo Haneda): Tokyo Haneda Airport — (東京モノレール, 15 min) — Hamamatsucho — (山手線, 10 min) — Tokyo Station — (北陸新幹線, 85 min) — Nagano Station — (Nagano–Hakuba Express Bus, 75 min) — Hakuba Happo Bus Terminal
- Airport bus + Shinkansen via Nagano + Alpico bus (from Toyama): Toyama Airport — (Toyama Chihou Railway, 25 min) — Toyama Station — (北陸新幹線, 55 min) — Nagano Station — (Nagano–Hakuba Express Bus, 75 min) — Hakuba Happo Bus Terminal
- Public transit (via Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport): Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport — (Airport shuttle bus, 35 min) — Matsumoto Station — (Oito Line, 97 min) — Hakuba Station — (Alpico Kotsu) — Hakuba Happo Bus Terminal
Videos
Videos →Riders’ own words from their videos, each with its timestamp.
6 rider clips from confirmed videos.
Creator-sourced-
“There happens to be a championships in Usagidaira today / We can see many experts on the slopes / How lucky we are / We can see the skiing skills of experts ... The place to get off the gondola is Usagidaira / It's the place behind me / Its height is around middle of mountain / Here is the transfer area to three other bases”
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“we're going to go and have a look at the uh Skyline lift now We're at the top of the skyline cheer lift at Hao on this is a fantastic run for everyone really you've got a nice cat track which winds around and gives you a great view of the mountains we've got a nice Bowl down the middle for intermediates in advance”
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“quite an expansive run too by the looks a bit bit more than up above there yeah funny you say that because the name of this run is the Panorama run wow isn't that apt yeah it's very apt very intuitive the caucus side number three lifts at hippo probably it's their best training facility”
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“Central is a red providing a long intermediate trail back to the gondola with options to dip onto some black moguls. The lower parts of central and skyline are in a valley providing some shelter if the weather is poor.”
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“行く人が比較的来ないおむすびですねのこのパウダーをガーッと食いに行って 発泡定め最上級になるおむすびにいいえとしていきたいとおもいます 本日の入り口は12番旅行行きますね はいえーとを結びいきたいとおもいます いやーみんなやっぱり入っちゃってるなぁ いやー対抗バー いいですねめっちゃ残ってましたねはいということでおむすびのパウダーをいただき”
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“右手に見えるのが黒ビゲレンデでちょっと雪薄薄そうなんですが、なんかパウダー良さそうで皆さんどんどん入ってってますね。 黒ビシのあそこのパウダー残ってるゾーン滑ってきて、黒ビシなんちゃらワットリフトみたいなのに乗ってます。 ということで黒ゲで1本滑ってきましたけど…なんで皆さん黒ビはカービング向いてると思います。是ひ来てください。”