Hirafu Village is where all the action is…accommodation, restaurants and night life. All locations are accessible via free shuttle buses and menus are in English and Japanese to cater for the influx of foreigners to the Niseko Resort Area.

The streets of Hirafu becomes a whole different place at night. After a long day of skiing and snowboarding, the town is filled with people rewarding themselves with a good hot meal or a drink at the bar.

Evening is spent recounting the days thrills and spills, and how amazing the powder is.

If you’d rather stay in, you can buy food back from the restaurants, get delivery or get cook your own meal. You can buy your food ingredients from the two convenience stores in the village. One of which is open 24 hours a day.

We arrived at Niseko in the late afternoon, quickly got settled into our chalet and off we went to Inski to get our snowboarding gear sorted for the next 5 days.

I need to mention this again, but it was snowing. Alot. Non-stop.
Check out this view from outside our window.

Niseko is a well known for its ski resorts, because of its consistent snowfall producing impressive amount of power. Niseko Hirafu ski resort is particularly popular with foreigners because of the bilingual signs and English speaking ski instructors. They also have fast and efficient chairs taking you up to many different runs from blues to double black diamonds.

The Niseko Ski Season is long, usually starting in the last week of November till March/April, varying slightly from year to year. The Niseko All Mountain Pass gives access to all three resorts for 4900 yen per day.

Niseko’s resorts are all located on Niseko-Annupuri Mountain. The three major resorts are Grand Hirafu, Niseko Village (formerly known as Higashiyama) and Annupuri. They are connected with each other at the top of the mountain, while shuttle buses connect them at the base.

Grand Hirafu is the largest of the resorts and the only one with a sizable town at its base. Hirafu Town has many hotels, holiday homes and an interesting range of restaurants and bars with an active nightlife. An evening stroll about town will take you past many places packed with foreigners.

- WikiTravel

Just to recap on how we got there
Singapore – Tokyo Narita International Airport
Tokyo Haneda domestic airport – New Chitose Airport (Sapporo)
New Chitose Airport – Niseko
There are several bus services that provide the transfer to Niseko including the Skybus, which takes you to your hotel.

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