A STATE-OF-THE-ART bike and wakeboard park will be the centrepiece for Hanazono's year-round sports, adventure and activity resort, set to open this summer.

Up to 5km of cross country mountain bike tracks, trails and jumps, plus freeride terrain, along with a BMX-style 'pump' arena and a skills development area, will be built at Hanazono to

A STATE-OF-THE-ART bike and wakeboard park will be the centrepiece for Hanazono's year-round sports, adventure and activity resort, set to open this summer.

JAPAN’S hottest snowboarders converged on Niseko earlier this month for two world-class competitions at Hanazono.

The Kissmark Cup (Feb 7) and Hokkaido Half-Pipe Championships (Feb 8) – both Federation of International Snowboarding events – took over the Stomping Ground for a weekend of eye-popping trickery.