Muwa Niseko occupies the top of Grand Hirafu village, ski-in and ski-out, and some of its units open straight onto the snow. South Korea’s Hanwha group developed it, GK H-SUMMIT operates it under the MUWA brand, and it took its first guests on 15 December 2023, with 113 rooms. It is a condominium hotel: the … Read more
Skye Niseko stands at the top of Hirafu-zaka, the street that climbs through the village, at the foot of the Grand Hirafu slopes between the King and Ace gondolas. Guests ski in and out, and in winter a free shuttle loops through the village every twenty minutes. Before it opened, the trade press called it … Read more
Hirafu-zaka is the main street of Upper Hirafu, climbing to the Grand Hirafu lifts with Mount Yōtei behind, and it lies inside a national park, under the Natural Parks Law. Sansui stands on it, built for Hirafu Capital, which Gendai Business described in 2024 as a Hong Kong-affiliated developer that owns and runs the hotel … Read more
Simon Cheong, the founder of the Singapore developer SC Global, began taking his family to Niseko for the skiing in 2012. He found the lodges, as he later put it, mediocre and expensive, and bought four plots of land around the resort. On one of them, a hectare beside the Grand Hirafu gondola station, his … Read more
Niseko’s Higashiyama ski area began in 1982, when Kokudo, the land company of the Seibu group, and the town of Niseko opened it with a Higashiyama Prince Hotel. Seibu sold the ski hill, the golf and the hotels to a Citigroup arm in 2006, and in 2010 the Malaysian group YTL bought the lot, by … Read more
A ski-in, ski-out mountain resort of 100 rooms and more than 80 residences at the foot of the Hanazono slopes in Niseko, Hokkaido.