Naeba Japan - Everything you need to know for your next Ski holiday

Naeba
Kagura, Mitsumata and Tashiro

Naeba

Naeba Ski Resort offers a nice amount of varied terrain to suit all ability levels (30% beginner, 40% intermediate, 30% advanced/expert). The resort offers 22 trails with a commendable vertical drop of 889m. Guests are somewhat limited to in resort areas only as off-piste exploring is discouraged by the resort.

The top half of the mountain serves advanced skiers and riders well with inviting steep terrain that opens up further down into wider and more placid runs from around the halfway point for the beginners and intermediates.

Naeba is also linked with Kagura via Japan's longest gondola, the Dragondola (5.5km). The Dragondola operates 9am to 3:30pm and takes about 20 minutes each way. Guests need to be vigilant with their time to ensure they don't miss the last trip back. Otherwise there's the resort area shuttle buses as a last resort.

Due to its convenient access from Tokyo (approximately 2hours), this resort is popular with locals and can get quite busy on weekends.

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Kagura, Mitsumata and Tashiro

Kagura consists of three areas; Kagura, Mitsumata and Tashiro. Kagura has a high altitude of 1,845m which sees the resort receive more snowfall on average when compared to Naeba (Kagura approximately 10m per year, Naeba approximately 6m per year).

Kagura offers a nice variety of terrain which tends to favour beginners and intermediates more so than the advanced guests (35% beginner, 35% intermediate, 30% advanced). Kagura Ski Resort is also more relaxed with their off-piste skiing. The advanced/expert skiers and riders can enjoy fantastic tree runs.

From the top of Kagura you'll also find some of the best backcountry terrain. There are English speaking backcountry guides available as well.

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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