Our Partners
These are the folks we know, trust and work with on a regular basis.
They know Niseko better than most!
RISING SUN GUIDES
Rising Sun Guides are Hokkaido's backcountry experts. They field a team of certified guides that will safely take you beyond the ropes in search of fresh, backcountry powder. Services available through Rising Sun include backcountry touring, CAT skiing, avalanche awareness courses and backcountry equipment rental.
https://risingsunguides.com/
RHYTHM JAPAN - We've been shredding for 20 years
Loved by riders around the world:
5-stars on Google and Tripadvisor. Tripadvisor 'Traveller’s Choice' Award Winner 2024.
Largest and latest gear selection:
All the biggest and latest brands to rent and buy, letting you live your best mountain life.
Local experts on the ground: An insanely talented and experienced team to help you pick the right gear set up for you, as well as, lessons and guiding experiences on offer for all styles of rider.
DEEP POWDER Snow Holidays
Deep Powder Snow Holidays is a booking agent specialising in accommodation throughout the majority of Japan’s ski resorts. They have offices in Sydney, Australia and Niseko, Japan and have been booking and managing snow holidays in Japan since 1993. If you are looking for the full package (flights and accommodation) we recommend Deep Powder...... As they say, been doing this since 1993!
https://www.deeppowdertours.com/
POWEDERHOUNDS: Your Ski Japan Resource
Ski Japan for some of the best powder skiing in the world. The Japan snow is world renowned and many of the Japan ski resorts get dumped with an average of 10 to 20 metres of snow per season! If you are a bit of a powder hound or wanna-be powder hound, a Japan skiing or snowboarding trip should absolutely be up there on your bucket list.
https://www.powderhounds.com
ISLAND SNOWBOARDS: Rider owned. Rider built.
The way they create allows them to embrace their surroundings, connect materials, processes and people; and reduce the environmental impacts associated with snowboard manufacture. All while delivering world-class, hand-made boards that rip. They come from a diverse background but are brought together by a love for the deep winters and dense summers of their home in Hokkaido. They’re riders just like you, searching for the perfect turn, that smooth side hit, the deep stash. Snowboarding for them is about having fun and sharing the stoke, whatever stance or style that gets you out in the mountains.
https://www.island-snowboards.com/
Protect Our Winters Japan
We support fellow enthusiasts who are passionate about outdoor activities and
are taking action to protect their fields and lifestyles from climate change.
In 2007, professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones, feeling a sense of crisis about the significant impact climate change was having on the snow-covered mountains—a vital field for us snowboarders—founded Protect Our Winters (POW) with his friends. Since then, POW's activities have spread to 13 countries worldwide, and in 2019, Protect Our Winters Japan launched its operations.
Niseko Area Mountain Bike Association
In 2021, six keen mountain bikers in Niseko looked at the mountains around them and asked why nobody was using them in summer. Niseko was a famous winter destination, but when the snow melted, the trails stopped. They decided to change that.
What six riders started in 2021 has become Japan's largest free-access, nonprofit-built mountain bike trail network. Over 25 kilometres of Swiss-designed trails, spanning multiple parks across the Niseko region. All free to ride, every day of the season, no membership or registration required.
NAMBA is not just a bike park. We're behind mountain biking across the entire Niseko area: building and managing Twin Peaks Bike Park, consulting on Grand Hirafu's expansion, opening Hanazono's first trails, designing unified signage systems, and planning the Mt Yotei loop. No other organisation in Japan is doing this at this scale.