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BLACK DIAMOND TOUR NEWS!
THIS winter Black Diamond Tours has moved back to the Niseko Village base area and opened up a new office directly opposite the Milk Kobo and just a few hundred metres down the road from Black Diamond Lodge.
Feature: Clayton Kernaghan
WATCHING snow go over your head with each turn, clearing it from your goggles and choking on the bits that got caught in the back of your throat, are the kinds of unique experiences that stamp Niseko into the memories of many who visit
In Focus with Tomoko Kazama
WHEN Tomoko Kazama isn't working in marketing for Niseko Village at Higashiyama, she loves hitting the mountain and going big. We get to know the poster girl for Niseko Village a little bit better...
Burton in Niseko
BURTON team riders will arrive in Niseko for the Burton Mountain Festival, based at Niseko Village from January 9-17.
TITLE :: Burton in Niseko for Burton Mountain Festival
BURTON team riders will arrive in Niseko for the Burton Mountain Festival, based at Niseko Village from January 9-17.
Every day from 1pm-3pm the public can ride alongside – or try and keep up with – Burton's Japanese team riders.
Along with opening and closing parties (January 9 and 16), party with the Burton team at
TITLE :: Taj Mahal fills and shakes bellies
YET another new Niseko restaurant – the Taj Mahal – swung open its doors recently, with an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet and...belly dancing!
Located in Izumikyo 1's Tancho Centre, Taj Mahal is one of seven in Hokkaido owned by Daniel Mansukhani, and is still holding a season opening buffet for lunch (¥1500) and dinner (¥2000-¥2500).
Niseko's
TITLE :: Niseko Village joins resort-opening party
NISEKO Village – a.k.a Higashiyama – officially opened today, with plenty of skiers and boarders rushing to the resort early for first tracks at almost six weeks worth of accumulated powder.
Every Niseko United resort is now running lifts, with Niseko Village's Gondola and the Country Road Chair both open for business. However, there
TITLE :: Niseko on the cover of Powder mag
NISEKO has scored the cover of the December issue of Powder magazine.
The skier is Swedish pro Henrik Windstedt who was here with Powder mag's senior photographer Mattias Fredriksson.
The crew stayed at Black Diamond Lodge in Higashiyama for 10 days last winter and got guided by the crew at Black Diamond Tours.
There's
TITLE :: Kamiharako to join Harmony
JIRO Kamiharako, former manager of the Higashiyama Prince Hotel, has been appointed general manager of Nihon Harmony Resorts.
A representative of Japan in the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics, Kamiharako was born in Sapporo and has lived in Niseko for the past nine years.
NHR is a shareholder in and manager of the Niseko
Higashiyama opens its gates
Not to the Mizuno no Sawa (yet), but to the media. On February 29, Higashiyama resort hosted a demonstration to the press about the steps it has been taking to allow access into Mizuno no Sawa (the closed bowl under the Niseko Gondola). For the past 2 years, the resort has been practicing bombing avalanche-prone areas in the bowl to encourage a
