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NISEKO Designer Homes, a new specialist home design company, has joined the local residential construction market.

Founded by Chris Chan – formerly head of sales and marketing for NISADE, and an award-winning building designer from south-east Queensland with a successful consultancy in Australia – Niseko Designer Homes 

FLAVOURS from around the globe have converged on Niseko with the newly-opened Niseko Food Market.

Located smack-bang in the Middle Village, alongside Australia House on Shirakaba-Zaka (just look for the red and white lanterns out front), the take away hotspot, made up of several adjoining demountables, brings a delicious and multicultural

SEVERAL new real estate companies have been formed in Niseko in over the past year.

Kicking off the new arrivals is Tracks Real Estate, whose sister companies Hokkaido Tracks Development and Hokkaido Tracks Management were local pioneers in their fields.

While this is TRE’s first season, sales manager Grant Mitchell

AS Niseko enters a new era of growth, a band of young entrepreneurs are moving in to stake their claim on the resort.

Over the past five years the core resort industries – accommodation, travel arrangements, ski schools and tours – have been hammered out among the early players to arrive.

But now it’s

If you’re going to go for lunch after a hard morning’s ski, you want to go where the chef knows what you need to eat. Mad keen snowboarder and PowCom café manager Kenji Kuramochi does – an extra big serving of hearty food, topped off with a beer. If you get the ¥1000 lunch pack, Kenji will throw in a beer for ¥100!!

Bonbori is a charming little souvenir shop just down the hill from Australia House, opposite the Seciomart. It’s jointly owned by three ladies – Mukai-san, Takahashi-san (pictured) and Nagahama-san who met while working as reflexologists at Makkari Onsen. The inspiration for their shop came from Takahashi-san who had always wanted to