Hakuba Happo-One Resort | Advanced Alpine Tours in English

Venue in Wadano, Hakuba, Nagano

Full disclosure: we mostly don't go — Hakuba's Happo-One is the 1998 Olympic downhill mountain, and it skis like it. The Riesen Grat ridge drops 1,071m of vertical, with English rental shops, multilingual ski schools, and enough Australian accents in Wadano to feel at home or claustrophobic, depending on your history. When you want the biggest alpine day Nagano can serve, this is it — 95 minutes from home, ¥10,400 a day. Lift passes direct at happo-one.jp.