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Niseko Season Pass Question

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wheezy
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Hello all,

I am coming to Niseko, Japan in mid December for about 3 months working and skiing as much as possible.

I have a quick question about seasons passes that hopefully someone will be able to help me with.

An all mountain ski pass that includes all Niseko areas is quite expensive (about $2000) and I am wondering about a few options:

1: purchase a All mountain pass

or

2: Purchase a Grand Hirafu / Hanazono seasons pass ( I assume thats where most of my skiing will be done) and on the days that it dumps and we want to ski the other areas / back bowels to just buy a day pass for those areas.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated

Cheers
Sep 27 2011 10:33PM
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MitchPee
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You can get what's called an hourly pass. I would do that and keep loading it up. It probably won't use as many as a full season pass would. I don't know how much Hirafu passes are but it would probably be worth it just to keep getting hourly tickets.

Otherwise season passes are very expensive!
Sep 28 2011 10:36AM
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MagSeven
Posts: 1000 - Karma: 412

The Niseko United season pass is incredibly expensive! If you don't have a job that will fund/subsidise a pass, its a huge expenditure. I second Mitch's suggestion of the hourly pass that you can top up if you're only here for 3 months.

My season pass that covers 5 other resorts in Hokkaido costs less than half the price of Niseko's pass!! (OK, its not Niseko, but it covers Rusutsu and Teine plus 3 others. And Nakayama Touge which opens before and closes after Niseko!)

Oct 5 2011 7:37AM
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