"Niseko is too expensive" is a sentiment propagated by more than a few news articles and TV programs that zeroed in on soaring commodity prices against the backdrop of a weak yen, all accompanied by ...

For now, though, Niseko seems to be bulletproof. The town has been riding a wave of increasing foreign visitors and the ...

Booking a hotel in the main resort of Niseko, Hirafu, has become competitive and increasingly expensive. So, more foreigners are looking at the town of Kutchan, just a short 15-minute drive away.

In Kutchan, a town located in the core of the Niseko resort area of Hokkaido, land prices have been rising for more than a decade as wealthy skiers from abroad have learned about the powdery snow ...

Photo shows Two woman walk along a path in front of the beach, one of them is pushing a pram.

Jacinta and Kieran both hail from the small mining town of Collie ... They were skiing in Niseko, Japan, on Valentine’s Day 2023 when Kieran got down on one knee and asked Jacinta for her ...

International tourists, especially Australians, started to arrive en masse in the famous Japanese ski resort of Niseko in the early 2000s. Now the influx has pushed the cost of housing so high it's ...