Updated for 2025/26 - Japan's amazing railway network links Tokyo to some of the best resorts in the country. Here's how to ski Japan and Niseko by train.

Japan is slowly creeping up the skiing bucket list for many skiers and for many reasons. Whilst North American skiing powered to the forefront of many European skiers' consciousness in the 2000s thanks to ski films depicting huge helicopter-only lines in the Rockies or Alaskan wilderness, the amazing nature of Japanese skiing is being passed down almost by word of mouth, with skiers returning with stories of endless snow and pictures of amazing face-shots of powder. In 2020,