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Japan's Largest Ski Resort | Shiga Kogen

Didi & Bryan Travels

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This time, we're headed to Shiga Kogen, the largest ski resort in Japan, which is located about an hour away from Nagano station in the heart of the Joshinetsu National Park. It's a more Japanese style resort with more traditional style hotels throughout the valley. It's a huge resort with 18 different areas, over 50 ski lifts, and 80 km of amazing runs.

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20 Comments

@lorezyra 2 years ago (edited)

I rarely ride the bus between the different parts of the resort as you can ride the lifts to the top and ski across the connections. From Okushiga, I'd ski to Yakibitaiyama then down to the bridge that you can ski across to the Family area of Shigakogen. From there, you can ride the lifts back to the top and ski across to the Giant ski area and then to Maruike ski area via the "secret tunnel."

If you know the ski resort, you should never have to ride the bus. You can literally ski from one side all the way to the other side of the resort. An advanced-intermediate skier should be able to do this within a day.

@champan250 3 years ago (edited)

Shiga Kogen sounds "large" but in fact it is not. The vertical of each area is probably the shortest among all major Japanese resorts. Given almost all of Shiga Kogen areas are interconnected at either the top or bottom (except the separated one you mentioned), one of the achievements to do is to ski/snowboard up-and-down from one end all the way to the another end in a single day. It is do-able within 5 hours, take about 11 or 13 lifts if I recalled correctly...

@debdeelie8241 2 years ago

Shiga Kogen mountain resort website, there are 4 areas. Area 1-3 are connected & can be reached skiing. (won’t recommend it for beginners), while area 4 - Kumanoyu-Yokoteyama-Shibutoge area is stand-alone. Time to get to area 4 via inter-resort shuttle depends on where one is situated, e.g. if you’re at Okushigakogen, with bus timings and bus change, to get to area 4 can take up to 2.5hours!

@rishabhkhandelwal1901 1 year ago

Love your videos - so many cool shots and so clearly explained.

@wh2568 1 year ago

Glad to see such a nice video about Shiga Kogen! I always stay a bit higher up the same run on Hoppo Bundaira, but we are considering staying at Aspen next year. Glad for a sneak peak at their meals!

@laszlopanaflex193 1 year ago

I’m staying at that hotel this Jan…so glad it has Onsen and amazing food.

@trancis_ 4 years ago

Loving ALL of your snowboarding videos! They're really well done with a ton of useful information, cool facts, and awesome snowboarding footage. I hope to make it out there someday!

@ukrainewins5742 2 years ago

Thanks for the vid, going there next week! Love that Japow!

@santiagoego1825 9 months ago

That. Mountain. Is. So. High

@hubertdrabarek8188 1 year ago

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@odkhuuerkhembayar7874 1 year ago

What month did you go there ?

@meivymetta4373 2 years ago

What time during you record this video? Such a lovely n great video, thx 4 sharing 💜 Hi fr Indonesia 🇮🇩 jakarta

@stonebai7203 2 years ago

Me in nagano crying bc of the snow is going to be dry after being pumped for a week. :((((

@shanefinch7776 4 years ago

This looks epic

@final6825 4 years ago

I’m trying to figure out which mountain to go to why doesn’t anyone talk about this place are the runs not as good?

@tobyazoor7059 4 years ago

Hey, thanks for making a such an entertaining and informative video! My friends and I are wondering about the level of English spoken at the resort because we plan on coming here for a trip next season.

@skirolf 3 years ago

Why don’t Ski maps of resorts show veritable drop, hight of mountains, base stations?
Many lifts looks slow moving?

@leafmylife 3 years ago (edited)

LOVE THIS SHOWCASE of the resort, what date/month were you there for?

@flaviotk7094 3 years ago

Hello, when did you travel?

@TessFitzpatrick 3 years ago

Hey! We are beginners and hoping to learn basics of skiing for 3 days from 10-14th December 2023. What ski resort do you think would be open at this time and also good for budget travellers?