Japan’s leading luxury alpine ski destination is an off-piste gem. Nature takes control with an annual snowfall of 10m to 11m, giving you endless soft powder. Although the snowfall is dramatic, the weather is generally mild by alpine terms, and is fairly consistent. Hakuba is in the northern Japan Alps, on Honshu. The village is bordered to the west by the 2,900m Tateyama Mountains, and much of it lies within the Chubu-Sangaku National Park, where there are 147 courses and 130 kilometres of trails in a ski area of 956 hectares.