Kashimayari Snow Resort Video Reviews: Slopes & Mountain

A YouTube Short ranking four scary steep slopes across Japan: Sapporo Teine's 北壁, Nozawa Onsen's Challenge Wall, Okuibuki's Heavenly 46 and Zao's Yokokura Wall. Kashimayari is not part of it.

A kids' family channel films a ski holiday at Kashimayari with Dad, made with the resort's cooperation. It is almost all music and cheering over the children skiing, with no spoken detail about the slopes.

An off-road motorbike channel previews the course at Shinshu Omachi Challenge Field, a hard-enduro site on the former Omachi Ski Area, ahead of the Webike Off-Road Festival. It has no connection to Kashimayari's skiing.

NBS news on the eve of Kashimayari's opening: a Pokémon Sleep collaboration places sleeping Pokémon around the slopes, a life-size Snorlax lies in the 'Oyasumi Dome', and the resort aims for 100,000 visitors.

Kashimayari's 2021-22 commercial announcing the opening of Pokémon Snow Adventure: a 10 m-high, full-length snow tubing area, a play area and gentle slopes for first-timers, as part of the resort's 'winter theme park' push.

A ruins-exploring channel visits the site of the former Omachi Ski Area, which closed around 2008 and is now an off-road 'challenge field' beside a shooting range. It is not about Kashimayari.

A scenic drive along Omachi city road 1004 toward Jiigatake ski resort with Northern Alps views, plus a bonus run up to Kashimayari. The narrator notes that Kashimayari closed its summit lift a few years ago and now runs mid-mountain lifts only.

Kashimayari Family Park's 2023-24 commercial: Pokémon Snow Adventure, a family play-land area, a 150 m snow tubing run, family ski debuts, and alpacas at the resort.

SPEARS Morishi's first 2026 edit from Kashimayari, a riding video set to an English song about moving forward. There is no spoken commentary, so all the content is in the footage.

Kashimayari's official 2020-21 TV commercial, with heavily garbled captions. It appears to promote 15 varied courses, freestyle features and a newly added long run, under Hakuba Valley branding.

A Kashimayari lift attendant films his icy 12 January commute from Matsumoto and his working day. Overnight snow gave about an hour of powder off the 第5 lift. By afternoon the snow was scraped near the 一本 junction, and the 林道 course opened.

A family vlog from 4 January: layering and heated-vest gear, a walk from a 平 minshuku to the nearest lift, rentals, free kids' helmets and ski school. The resort's 林道 forest course was still closed for lack of snow.

Kashimayari Family Park's 2025-26 opening commercial: Pokémon Snow Adventure, a play-land area, a 150 m tube run, wide gentle slopes for families and the new DSP park.

A driver's-view ride on the children's troika in the corner of Jiigatake ski resort, a four-lift Hakuba Valley resort in Omachi run by Omachi Onsen Kankō. Kashimayari does not feature.

ABN news, 13 December 2025: Kashimayari opens for the season with about 50 cm at the base. One of its 13 courses is open, and the resort expects about 75,000 visitors after renewing the family area and building a terrain-based park.

A dash-cam drive from past Omachi Onsenkyō to Kashimayari's central car park on 29 January 2022, showing winter road conditions. The audio is only music.

A family vlog of a first 2026 trip to Kashimayari's Pokémon Snow Adventure: Pikachu, the giant Poké Ball dome, snow tubing and lift rides with young children. It is mostly music and kids' chatter, with no run detail.

ABN news, 24 December 2023: Kashimayari Family Park opens part of its slopes despite little snow. It highlights alpaca feeding and walks, a racer maze, a renewed kids' play land, and the restart of a lift that had been out of service.

A British snowboarder adds Kashimayari to a Hakuba Valley Pass day after a morning at Sanosaka, travelling by train. He explains the pass-for-ticket swap at the counter, rides a short afternoon, and rates both little resorts as worth the effort despite what others told him.

A music-driven montage from Kashimayari Family Park, filmed on 10 January 2026. The description calls the resort a dark horse of the Hakuba area that fills with families before noon. The soundtrack is a string of Japanese pop songs.

A ten-second English clip of the panoramic view from Hakuba Kashimayari on a fine-weather day.

Kashimayari's official 15-second TV commercial for the 2018-19 season. The heavily garbled ASR suggests a voice-over on varied terrain, tubing and fun for all levels; the description adds that the season runs to 7 April.

A ski-shop channel's course introduction filmed on 30 January in light powder on a 90 cm base. It explains the central lifts and the two entrances, then follows a POV descent of the 一本ブナダウンヒルコース to the 中綱 base, noting it is steep for its intermediate label.

A 22-second English promo short that pitches Kashimayari to first-timers for its gentle slopes, friendly instructors and welcoming atmosphere, and adds that it also has challenging runs and a terrain park.

A short from Jiigatake ski resort in Omachi: the rider tries the kids' slalom poles on an alpine snowboard in their first season of alpine. The audio is only an encouraging song, and Kashimayari does not feature.

A returning snowboarder's first session in two years at Jiigatake ski resort in Omachi. He takes the 第2ペアリフト and rides an intermediate run into the 林間 forest course, about a four-minute descent. This is Jiigatake, not Kashimayari.

Day three of a family stay in snowy Omachi: a −10 °C morning, the narrator's ski clothing, a large GoPro corner in the resort shop, a day of ski school with his daughter, and the lodge bath and dinner.

A short clip from Jiigatake ski resort, a neighbour of Kashimayari in Omachi. The rider runs the kids' slalom course on an alpine snowboard and practises short turns with an instructor. The audio is only a song.

A short Japanese riding clip from 28 December: a group of friends opens their Kashimayari day. They point to a new freeride-style park with rails and jumps and say it's an easy choice for riders from the Chūō side. The rest is music over riding.

A family vanlife channel, just back from Sydney, starts a week in Nagano at a friend's home in Omachi and skis nearby, Happo among them. The audio is almost entirely music.

Day 25 of a season at Jiigatake ski resort in Omachi: the rider comes for alpine snowboard lessons from a favourite instructor. The audio is only a song, and Kashimayari does not feature.

A tour operator's 16-second promo for Kashimayari Family Park: Pokémon Snow Adventure, a play-land area, a 150 m family tube run, wide gentle slopes, and the new DSP park.