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Mountainwatch Travel in Hakuba

If you’ve received a quote from us, you’ll know that it mentions ‘Mountainwatch Travel customer service’. Ever wondered exactly what that includes? Outside of the self-explanatory ‘pick up and drop off’, there are a few other elements like ‘in-resort services’ that may need further explaining. We’ll get into that shortly, but first, here’s a little bit of background on Mountainwatch Travel (formerly Liquid Snow Tours). 

About Mountainwatch Travel

We have now been sending Australians to ski and snowboard in Japan for over 17 years. Time flies when you’re having fun. And, that’s what it’s all about – we live and breathe the snow. Mountainwatch Travel also part-owns and operates a number of hotels and chalets in Hakuba, such as The Marillen Hotel, Luna Lodge, and The Happo. We clearly have a love for the destination and we’re here to make sure you leave feeling the same way. Our team does absolutely everything we can to ensure our customers have the best time when traveling to Hakuba and other resorts in Japan. Meaning we don’t just book your holiday and send you on your way, we are there to make sure you have a good time.

In-Resort Services

Every year, the Mountainwatch Travel team pack their bags and swap the summer months in Queenstown, New Zealand for the winter months in Hakuba. Why? One because we LOVE the snow and two so that we’re there to ensure we’re at the beck and call of you, our customers. In short, this is what we mean by ‘in-resort services’. It’s also the part of our ski holiday service that we believe is the most invaluable and hard to come by.

Our team is there for you if anything goes wrong, ready to take you to the hospital, chemist, or police station. Or, if you need to communicate with anyone and don’t speak the language our bilingual team members can easily speak with anyone on your behalf.

We also have the ins and outs of your booking on hand to help with any queries. Our extensive local knowledge is always available to help you choose everything from the best mountain to shred to the best meal to eat. Or, if you’re after a day tour, lesson or ski hire – we can lock it in for you.

Hakuba mountain guide Mimi showing her group around Happo-one
Hakuba mountain guide Mimi showing her group around Happo-One

To sum it up, when you book your ski holiday with Mountainwatch Travel you’ll have the peace of mind that we’re there to help (whenever and wherever you may need it).

If you’re ready to experience Mountainwatch Travel customer service for yourself, complete an enquiry form, and our team will happily create a custom package for you. Or discover our packages below.

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Kate McRobie

Marketing and Brand Manager

Kate McRobie is a digital marketing specialist with over ten years' experience across New Zealand, Amsterdam and Japan in the sports and snow industries, including campaigns for Netflix, Under Armour, Giant Bicycles and Vans. She spent two back-to-back seasons based in Niseko, Japan, heading up marketing for HTM across some of the region's largest hotels, ski schools, rental operations and restaurants.

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Lizzie was so helpful, gave us some options and advice to help us pinpoint where we wanted to go. And once we had booked provided some really helpful travel advice and answering questions we had. Easy to deal with, everything was smooth and we had a great time.
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Shelly Drewitz
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Calum was awesome at helping us every step of the way with our trip. We got a great deal on the accommodation and ski lift, and we will definitely come back to Mountainwatch next time based on his excellent service.
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Mark K Grant
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I booked my Japan ski holiday through Mountainwatch. Very professional and when we arrived in Japan all was laid out for us. The accommodation was even nicer than expected. KIrsty was very good to work with and made things very easy!!!! will book again next season.
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Jess
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Great experience booking through this company, our contact Anna was brilliant, and organised a fantastic ski trip for us. The travel was all clearly laid out, the accommodation was lovely, the ski field was fantastic, great range of local dining options and bars.
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Brett A
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Mountain Watch are great, well organised and excellent advice on locations and accommodation. Highly recommended!
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Thanks Kirsty for helping arrange our family trip to Myoko for Xmas 2025, we had an amazing time
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Jan Kelly
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Thanks Kirsty, once again your arrangements for us in Japan worked very well. We’ll have no hesitation about touching base with you before we make another booking….. not sure if we’ll be organised by June, but we’ll see. Have a great season yourself and keep up the good work at MountainWatch. Regards Jan and Tom
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Samantha Farr
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Our trip to Hakuba and Tokyo was so smooth and easy thanks to the help of Justine. Hotel was great and in a perfect location and it was very smooth having all our extras like lessons and rentals booked and sorted before we arrived. Would 100% book through Mountainwatch Travel again!
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John Durham
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This is the second year that Kristy has organized travel arrangements for a skiing holiday to Furano in Japan, for us. It is the second time that those arrangements have been fulfilled seamlessly. No hassles, as planned and on time. Perfect, and will use Mountainwatchj Travel again. John Durham
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Simone B
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We booked through Anna O’Malley for our stay in Nozawa onsen Village in Japan. Seamless service, prompt, and pricing reasonable. The Shimataya View Hotel, was a lovely stay. Room size was large, great views, and Amazing service from Staff. Momoi and Eloisa couldn’t help enough- from dinner reservations to organising luggage to Tokyo. Property is older, though clean, well maintained. 10 min walk to slopes, 5 min walk to village centre. I recommend Mountain Watch, and this property. Photos are the view from our room.
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