The park is great for beginners and families. Intermediates and experts can also enjoy the slopes. The 1,200 meter wide-range slope named “Kane-no-naru-oka” piste is well received for snowboarders. Let’s have a wonderful experience for night skiing in fantastic mixed lighting to leave ski tracks on the snow. Heli-skiing in spring, which is to fly by helicopter to the Tengu-hara Mountain to ski down the 14 kilometer-piste, is no difficult choice. Feel the spring breeze and see a splendid view of the Northern Japan Alps.

Located 2,349 meters up in the Northern Japan Alps. Three-hour-hiking from the Tsugaike Shizen-en Nature Park at 1,900 meter elevation, through the spacious Tengu-hara wetland on the way then walk down Mt. Norikura, you will get to the pond. The scene made of 2,379 meters above sea level and between Mt. Norikura and Mr. Shirouma of the two kilometer-neighborhood is like a miniature landscape garden which Mother Nature created in full blooming of various alpine plants.

The Chikuni-Kaido pass, called Itoigawa-Kaido pass in the Shunshu region and known as Matsumoto-Kaido pass in the Echigo region in the Edo era that has connected from Itoigawa at the seaside to Matsumoto in a mountain region, was a pass which a load for the feudal system in which each daimyo was forced to maintain a permanent residence at Edo and to spend alternate periods in residence at Edo and at his fief. Salt and seafood were delivered from the Japan Sea to the Shunshu region in exchange for farm and mountain products from Shinshu to Itoigawa. Those products were carried by horses and oxen. Despite the rough pass, it was an irreplaceable road for the people in Shunshu.

During the Golden-week holidays in Otari, Hakuba, and Omachi, you will see Yuki-gata, a shape of the lingering snow on the mountainside. The festival is to walk the shio-no-michi pass which salt was delivered through the pass, reaching from Otari to Omachi, in the olden days. A walking pass from Otari to Hakuba is the distance of 8 kilometers and takes about 4 hours.

Hakuba-Cortina, has 16 slopes, with natural powder snow welcomes skiers and snowboarders from abroad. The good thing is that your body is not easily to get wet even if you lie down on snow because of the quality of snow is smooth and soft. Not just a piste of 200 meter in width for beginners and a slope for experts seeing a superb view from 1,400 meters above sea level, all various pistes merge into one skiing course in front of the hotel. From children to seniors, all ages can enjoy the park.