With yet another apartment sale last week, Nisade is proud it’s keystone building, The Vale Niseko, is showing such strong demand through the four seasons.

Buyers, traditionally buying during winter periods only, are now visiting Niseko scoping the alpine summer for property buys. The Vale Niseko has hosted many a purchaser this summer already and with the onsen, private onsens and pool - what better way to enjoy the summer greenery.

There are only a handful of ski-in ski-out apartments available. Now is the best time to secure this iconic Niseko building before the next season winter prices set in.

The Vale Niseko lobby and concierge desk. Taken by famous Sapporo Architectural Photographer Masahide Sato.

HIRAFU'S first five-star condominium-hotel, The Vale Niseko, swung open its doors with its grand opening ceremony earlier this month.

WHETHER it's for his ski guiding, management of hotels, restaurants and festivals, or promoting and marketing Niseko to the world, everyone seems to know family man, businessman and downright nice guy, Yukihiro-san.

HONG Kong-based developer Above+Beyond Hotels and Resorts is on track to build its flagship resort just down the road from the Ace Family Pair lift in Hirafu.

Projected to be completed by the winter of 2010/11, the resort will feature a total of 102 one, two and three-bedroom suites in the hotel, as well as 22 separate four-bedroom

SIX stars isn't an official hotel rating, but if Capella Niseko delivers on its promises, it will deserve the tag. In the process it will launch Niseko into stellar international ski destination status.

Capella, the 'world's first six-star hotel and resort management company', announced in April plans for a luxury resort - comprising

One of Japan’s most spectacularly beautiful and admired landscapes is just an hour’s drive from Niseko on the far side of Mt Yotei. Lake Toya is an almost-circular volcanic caldera lake, 10km across at its widest point. At its centre three densely vegetated lava domes rise from the lake’s transparent waters – from space

After creating one of the most talked about restaurants in Hirafu, and building a few elegant but low key developments in the lower village, Shouya Grigg appears to have officially launched the beginnings of ‘Empire Sekka’. At the forefront is the refurbishment of the old J-Second Hotel on the lower side of the traffic lights next to