Snowshoe Tours in the Japan Alps

Experience a world away from the crowds and lift-lines and explore the silence of Hakuba's more removed areas on snowshoes. The Hakuba area has endless trails on mountain ridges or through old growth forests and shrines, with truly some of the best Alpine views in all of Japan.

We run snowshoe full day and afternoon half day tours everyday from December 10th to the end of the season.

Minakami area snowshoe tours are provided by Canyons.

››Click here for Evening Snowshoe & Fondue Tour

Complimentary Shuttle Service

For snowshoe tours, we offer a complimentary shuttle service to and from your hotel before and after lessons provided you are staying within our pick-up area. Click here for details of this service.

	Time	HALF DAY PM: 13:30 sign-in ~ 16:30 finish FULL DAY: 9:30 sign-in ~ 15:30 finish *30 minute lunch break
	Tour Prices	HALF DAY TOUR: 5,250 yen / 4,500 for children FULL DAY TOUR: 9,450 yen adults & children *full day price does not include gondola ticket (2,500 yen pp.) *minimum of 2 people per tour (or pay the total of two) *child = 12 yrs and under *add 1,050 yen for a pack lunch
	Location	Half Day: Minegata or Iwatake, Hakuba Full-Day: Tsugaike Shizen, Otari
	Includes	Snowshoe rental, local guide, insurance, tax.
	Bring	Winter clothing for all conditions, warm hat or knit cap, sunglasses or goggles, gloves, winter boots or snowboard boots

Evening Snowshoe and Fondue in Hakuba

Hakuba Nightlife Options

The options are simple:

a. Go for a walk on slippery winter roads.
b. Visit one of the many popular smoke filled bars in town.
c. Join Evergreen on an evening snowshoe and chocolate fondue tour.


If you chose c. then you are very wise and we at Evergreen are happy to guide you under the bright stars of Hakuba. The walk is not strenuous, but just enough to work up an appetite for dessert fondue in a specially crafted snow shelter called a Kamakura in Japanese. It is not unusual to see wild badgers, rabbits, fox, mink and Kamoshika (Japanese mountain goat) while hiking on our tours.

We run Evening Snowshoe Tours every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening from December 10th to the end of March. Please note the complimentary shuttle service is not available for this tour and we ask participants to make their own way to Wadano Base.

	Time	19:00 sign-in ~ 21:30 finish *with fondue and spiced wine/hot chocolate break
	Tour Prices	ADULT: 5,750 yen CHILD: 4,750 yen *minimum of 2 people per tour *child = 12 yrs and under
	Location	Happo-one, Hakuba
	Includes	Snowshoe rental, local guide, insurance, tax, fondue and spiced wine/hot chocolate.
	Bring	Winter clothing for all conditions, warm hat or knit cap, sunglasses or goggles, gloves, winter boots or snowboard boots

Winter › Tours › Snowshoe

Christmas Day Family Snowshoe and Treasure Hunt

The Christmas Day Snowshoe is a great activity that can be enjoyed by the whole family from ages 3 and up. On this non strenuous but very fun trip into the Japanese winter wonderland you can relax sipping hot mulled wine over a brandy Christmas cake while the children search for presents dropped by Santa on his whirl wind tour of the Japan Alps.

Time:
HALF DAY: 10:00 sign-in ~ 12:30 finish

Price:
Adult: 5,750 yen
Child: 4,750 yen

Location:
Happo, Hakuba

Tour Includes:
Snowshoe rental, local guide, insurance, tax, mulled wine and brandy Christmas cake for the adults, hot cocoa and cookies for the children and of course as many gifts and goodies as the little ones can search out on the Treasure Hunt.

Bring for Xmas Snowshoe Tour:
Winter clothing for all conditions, warm hat or knit cap, sunglasses or goggles, gloves, winter boots or snowboard boots.