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Where to ride in Nozawa Onsen

Nestled in the Japanese Alps, Nozawa Onsen offers deep powder, diverse terrain, and a charming village, making it a top destination for skiers and snowboarders. Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate cruiser, or powder seeker, [...]

The New Niseko Trail Map – Featuring Two New Lifts

Introducing the 2017/18 Niseko United Trail Map, featuring the two newest lifts to hit Niseko this season; the Ace Family Quad Lift at Niseko-Hirafu and the Dream Quad Lift at Niseko-Annupuri. This season, the Niseko United resor [...]

Backcountry Skiing – Where to start?

Discover our Beginner’s Guide to Backcountry Skiing.

Ski Adventure in Myoko Kogen

After a season of scarce snowfall in the Alps, professional skiers Julien Lange and Flo Bastien made their way to Myoko Kogen, Japan, to chase the snowstorm of the decade. With powder-starved souls, read on to experience Myoko thr [...]

Planning a Ski Holiday to Japan

Japan is world renowned for some of the best powder skiing in the world with an average of 10-17 metres of snowfall per season. With ample high quality snow, beautiful scenery, great food and relaxing hot springs. A ski holiday to [...]

Travis Rice Snowboarding Hakuba

If you’re a big fan of the snow, you will have no doubt heard of the Hakuba Valley. And, if you’re a big fan of snowboarding you will have surely heard of Travis Rice. If not, well, you’re about to. Travis Rice [...]

Tohoku Ski Resorts Japan – Travel Guide

The Tohoku region of Japan, on the northeastern end of the main island of Honshu, is home to many of the country’s great Ski and Snowboard resorts. Discover some of our favourite spots in Tohoku by reading on! On snow, the area [...]

Podcast with Timbo Reid – Creating a profitable business partnerships

Business Owner Quentin Nolan talks about Mountainwatch Travel (previously Liquid Snow Tours) with Timbo Reid.

Night Skiing in Hakuba

Niseko is the resort that gets all the notability when it comes to night skiing, and yes, it has great options! But, the Hakuba Valley too has plenty of options that need not be overlooked. So, if you want to experience the sheer [...]

A Must Ski destination while in Hakuba – Cortina

Cortina is a must-visit destination for tree-skiing enthusiasts in Hakuba. With its breathtaking alpine scenery, exceptional powder conditions, and diverse terrain, it’s perfect for all skill levels. 20 minutes drive up the vall [...]

Spring Skiing and Snowboarding in Japan?

Spring is one of the greatest times of the year to be introduced to skiing and snowboarding in Japan. Why? Lets start with the fact that there will be surprising storms bringing fresh powder snow one day and bright sunshine with b [...]

Can’t decide where to go in Japan?

With over 500 ski resorts scattered across Japan, narrowing down the perfect spot for your ski trip can be overwhelming. Sure, Niseko and Hakuba are popular, but there’s so much more to explore all across the country. The follow [...]

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nicky sullivan

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.

Shelly Drewitz

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.

Mark K Grant

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.

Jess

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.

Brett A

Mountain Watch are great, well organised and excellent advice on locations and accommodation. Highly recommended!

darren martin

Thanks Kirsty for helping arrange our family trip to Myoko for Xmas 2025, we had an amazing time

Jan Kelly

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

Samantha Farr

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!

John Durham

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

Simone B

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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