Greenpia Onuma, Hokkaido: the ski slopes, the onsen, rooms, prices and how to get there

Where is Greenpia Onuma?

Greenpia Onuma is in the town of Mori in southern Hokkaido, about 50 minutes by car from Hakodate on the road towards Sapporo and about 10 minutes by car from Onuma Park. Its full name, LiveMax Resort Hakodate Greenpia Onuma, sends some visitors looking for it inside the city of Hakodate; the address the resort itself gives is Akaigawa, Mori Town, in Kayabe District. The resort's English site puts the scale first: "Greenpia Onuma is a resort hotel located in Hakodate, Hokkaido with a vast area of 4.39 million square meters."

Those grounds hold a hotel block, an onsen hall that also takes day visitors, an indoor pool, log-house villas, dome tents, camp sites and a ski area. Mt Komagatake, the volcano in this site's photographs, is the view the hotel is turned towards.

For the rest of the prefecture, from Hakodate to the far north, see this site's Hokkaido page.

Greenpia Onuma in photos: the resort in mid-October

In the middle of October the resort sits between its two seasons. The outdoor activities are down to weekends and public holidays, the ski slope is still grass, and the hill beside the hotel is changing colour. This site's photographs were all taken between 14:30 and 14:50 on 13 October 2026.

Under the entrance canopy a row of open electric carts stood parked, blue and white with brown bench seats. The canopy is also where the resort's access page puts its covered parking for motorbikes, for up to eight machines, or about ten bicycles.

Inside, the lobby had been dressed for autumn: red maple leaves, a stone lantern and a paper parasol arranged beside a spiral staircase, with a white floral arch on a round red stage. The resort's FAQ places the front desk on the floor numbered 2F. Its facilities page lists two things in the entrance hall that a visitor may want:

The facilities page also says the resort has been through a full renewal. The dated pieces of it on the pages read are the onsen hall's lounge and its restaurant in July 2024, the villas and the capsule rooms in August 2024, and the dome tents in September 2024.

How to get to Greenpia Onuma

Most visitors come by car, and the resort is laid out for that: roughly 600 free spaces, with the main car park in front of the hotel. Without a car the usual route is a train to Onuma-Koen Station and then a taxi of about 15 minutes. Guests staying the night have a third choice, a free shuttle from Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, where the Shinkansen from Tokyo arrives.

By train, bus and plane

The Japanese and English access pages give these routes. Where the total is blank, the page gives only the separate legs.

From Tokyo by air, the English page puts the flight from Haneda at about 1 hour 20 minutes to Hakodate and about 1 hour 30 minutes to New Chitose. This site has separate guides to buying Shinkansen tickets, to domestic flights and to taxis in Japan.

The free shuttle for guests staying the night

The English access page is brief about who may ride: "A free shuttle bus is available for hotel guests only." The bus starts at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, calls at Onuma-Koen Station and takes about 50 minutes over the whole run. The table gives the time it leaves each station.

Going back, buses leave the resort for both stations at 10:00, 13:20 and 16:30.

The same page carries one more line that matters on a 50-minute ride: "Note: No restroom breaks on the way." The Japanese page adds that the times are a guide rather than a promise and that pets cannot ride.

By car

From Sapporo the access page says about 4 hours: the Do-o Expressway to the Onuma-Koen interchange, a right turn at the junction signed for Greenpia Onuma and road 843, and about 2 km more. The resort's FAQ gives a shorter figure for the same trip, a little over 3 hours.

Visitors hiring a car will find the basics in this site's guides to renting a car in Japan and to driving in Japan.

How far Greenpia Onuma is from other places

The FAQ lists driving times from the resort. They show how large Hokkaido is: Furano's lavender fields are about five hours away.

Shops, cash and phones nearby

The resort is in the countryside, and its FAQ is plain about what is not next door. The English FAQ says of money: "There are no banks close by."

The resort takes cash, credit cards and electronic money. For where to draw yen before leaving a city, see this site's guides to ATMs in Japan and to cash or card.

Greenpia Onuma ski resort: season, courses and lift tickets

The ski area is a small one on the resort's own hill: six courses, two pair lifts and a free snow escalator, between 182 metres at the base and 442 metres at the top. The 2026-27 season is planned to run from Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 7 March 2027, and an adult's one-day lift ticket is listed at 5,500 yen. The resort's English ski page says who the hill is meant for: "Greenpia Onuma has six ski slopes that can be enjoyed by everyone from beginners to advanced skiers."

On 13 October 2026 the slope was still grass. This site's photograph shows it rising behind an empty car park, with the white Shiki no Mori building and a red-roofed lodge at its foot.

Season and opening hours

The opening date carries the word planned on the Japanese ski page. The English ski page still shows the opening date of an earlier winter, and notes beside it that the date depends on how much snow has fallen, so the dates here are the Japanese page's. A status block lower on the Japanese page gives the night session as 17:00 to 21:00, with the last lift at 20:45.

The courses

The course table on the English ski page has seven names, although both language versions give the number of courses as six. This site does not know how the count is made, and the table below repeats the names, levels, steepest gradients and lengths as that page lists them.

The longest run, Family road, covers 1,200 metres and never passes 14 degrees; the steepest, Skyway, reaches 30 degrees over 400 metres. Both language versions also mention a separate slope for children. It describes the view from the top like this: "From the top of the mountain, you can see not only beautiful Mt. Komagatake, Lake Onuma and Lake Konuma, but also Uchiura Bay and Mt. Yotei in the distance."

The lifts

Two pair lifts, with chairs for two, carry skiers up the hill, and beginners have a moving walkway on the snow. The English page puts it in one sentence: "Greenpia Onuma ski resort has two pair lifts and a free snow escalator that is safe for children."

The lift page gives 16:00 as the end of the day for lift 2, while the status block on the ski page gives 16:20; plan around 16:00. On evenings the English page says: "Lift 1 is open for night skiing on weekends." The hours line on the Japanese page is more exact, naming Fridays and Saturdays.

The ski-school page explains what the snow escalator is for. Beginners can start without the worry of getting on and off a chairlift.

Lift ticket prices

Lift tickets are sold at the Shiki no Mori Ticket Center, which the FAQ places right in front of the ski area, and unused tickets are not refunded. Guests staying at the resort pay 10% less. The prices below are those on the resort's Japanese lift page on 13 October 2026. The page carries no label saying which winter they belong to, so look at it again before opening day.

Prices for day visitors:

Prices for guests staying at the resort:

The youngest children need no ticket at all. The English page: "Preschoolers can use lifts free of charge." The FAQ adds that guests who ski on the day they check out can leave their luggage at the hotel's front desk.

Season pass

A season pass costs less the earlier it is bought, and the lift page says it is also valid for the weekend night sessions.

Rental, lessons and snow play

Visitors who do not ski still have something to do on the snow, and those who do can arrive without equipment.

The English page places the rental counter at the entrance to the slopes. The Japanese pages give no prices for renting skis, boards or wear; the English page does list some, but beside the dates of an earlier winter, so this site does not quote them. For a break from skiing, the Japanese ski page points to the resort's two restaurants, which are covered further down this page.

The onsen at Greenpia Onuma: hours, prices and rules

The onsen hall, called Hottopia, takes day visitors from 6:00 to 9:30 and from 11:00 to 21:00 at 1,000 yen per adult, and is free for guests staying at the resort. It has an open-air bath, a large indoor bath and a sauna. The English hot-spring page introduces it this way: "Hottopia, a hot spring recreation facility in Greenpia Onuma, offers baths with natural hot spring water."

At the entrance to the baths on 13 October 2026, two noren curtains hung side by side, navy for men and orange for women, beside a counter with a box for bathing tickets. A sign told day bathers to buy their ticket at the hall's information counter first.

Opening hours

Whoever the bather is, the baths shut for an hour and a half in the morning, from 9:30 to 11:00.

Guests staying at the resort bathe free for the whole stay, and the FAQ says that covers the hours before check-in and after check-out too.

Prices for day visitors

Hotel guests do not pay for towels; the FAQ asks them to bring the ones from their room. The hand towel on sale is a tenugui, the thin cotton cloth that Japanese bathers carry.

The baths

The falling-water bath is an utaseyu, a fixture of older Japanese bath houses. The spring is named Shukunobe no Yu, and the Shukunobe River is the one that runs through the resort's grounds. The English page gives the water's type as "Sodium-hydrogencarbonate spring (hypotonic, alkaline, high temperature)". Only one bath is fed straight from the source: the Japanese FAQ says the open-air bath alone is free-flowing, and that the water in the other baths is circulated and heated. The same FAQ says the water is not for drinking.

The washing area has shampoo, conditioner, body soap and a baby chair. The changing room has free coin lockers, hair dryers, a baby bed and massage machines. A phone app, opened from a QR code posted in the hall, shows how crowded the large bath is at that moment.

Rules for bathers

The English FAQ is blunt on two points. On pregnancy: "Expectant mothers may not use these hot spring baths." On bathing in private: "This hotel does not provide private spa baths."

None of the resort's pages read for this guide, in Japanese or in English, mentions tattoos, so this site cannot say what the rule is here. Anyone with tattoos should ask the resort before travelling. For how a shared Japanese bath works, and how tattoos are usually handled, see this site's guide to ryokan.

Wednesdays: sauna sessions

Every Wednesday the resort holds löyly sessions in the sauna, led by a neppashi, a heat-wave master who sends the hot air through the room. The event page gives the place as the large bath of the onsen hall and lists four start times.

A second event page announces a Wednesday-only plan for unlimited use of the onsen and sauna. It shows no price on the page itself, so this site does not quote one.

The after-bath lounge

Past the baths is a lounge for cooling down, signed ONSEN LOUNGE on the day of this site's visit. The facilities page gives its hours as 10:00 to 19:30 and says drinks there are charged.

Inside the onsen hall: penny sweets, local vegetables and capsule toys

The onsen hall doubles as a small market. Its shop sells local vegetables, milk and pickles, a separate corner sells old-fashioned penny sweets, and both are open from 10:00 to 20:30. The English hot-spring page mentions it in passing: "In addition to hot springs, local vegetables, milk, and sweets are sold at the hot spring facility Hottopia."

The sweets are dagashi, the cheap, brightly wrapped snacks that Japanese children have long bought with pocket money. The facilities page claims one of the largest selections in southern Hokkaido for the corner. That is the resort's own description, not something this site has measured. On 13 October 2026 the corner was a wooden market-style stall under a small roof trimmed with artificial maple leaves, with more sweets laid out on wooden counters under handwritten price tags.

The vegetables sat in wicker baskets with chalkboard tags, among pumpkins and Halloween decorations, and a chalkboard asked buyers to pay at the information counter.

The soba, fresh rather than dried, was stacked in packs on a wire trolley with a handwritten sign.

One wall of the hall is given over to capsule-toy machines, two rows of nine. Among those read that day, one sold wooden tags marked with the name Hakodate and another sold old coins.

The children's festival on 28 November 2026

The resort's event page announces a children's festival at the onsen hall on Saturday 28 November 2026, from 10:00 to 16:00.

Each event ends when its goods or prizes run out. For travelling with children more widely, see this site's guide to Japan with kids.

Rooms at Greenpia Onuma: hotel, capsules, domes and villas

Greenpia Onuma has five ways to spend the night: rooms in the hotel building, capsule rooms for men beside the baths, three dome tents, log-house villas in four sizes, and the camp sites described in the next section. Check-in is from 15:00 and check-out is by 10:00 for all of them except the camp sites. Nightly prices move with the plan and the date, so this site does not quote them.

The table sets the room types side by side, with the figures from the resort's Japanese pages. Where a page gives no number, the table says so.

Rooms in the hotel building

Every room in the hotel looks the same way, towards the volcano. The English stay page says so directly: "All guest rooms in the hotel building have large windows with great views of Mt. Komagatake."

The Japanese room is 10 tatami mats and 39 square metres, for two to five people, with the toilet and the bathroom in separate spaces. Guests lay out their own futons there. The Western rooms hold two or three beds, each 126 centimetres wide, in 36 square metres. The two suites join a twin room to a Japanese room of eight mats, 72 square metres in all. Two more rooms are barrier-free, and the FAQ asks guests who need one to say so when booking.

On the internet connection the English FAQ is specific about where it reaches: "Wi-Fi can be used for free in the hotel lobby and guest rooms within the hotel buildings."

The coin laundry costs 300 yen for a wash and 100 yen for 60 minutes of drying, with detergent at 100 yen, and the FAQ says people who are not staying may use it too. Bags can also be sent ahead by a delivery service and are held at the front desk; the FAQ asks senders to write the date of the stay and the name on the booking on the delivery slip. This site's luggage guide explains how those services work in Japan.

For families, the FAQ sets out the charges by age. Children aged 3 and over who are not yet at school pay the infant rate, and primary-school pupils pay the primary-school rate. For a child under 3 the FAQ lists three charges, tax included.

Children's yukata, the cotton robes worn around a Japanese hotel, come in three sizes and are kept beside the lift on 2F. The hotel has no baby cots, and baby goods are sold at the shop in the 2F lobby.

Rooms next to each other can be requested when the hotel is not full, although a Japanese room and a Western room cannot be side by side; the same floor is possible. The floor itself cannot be chosen, except on plans sold for the top floor. Cancellation charges begin seven days before the stay.

MAX CABIN: capsule rooms for men

MAX CABIN opened in August 2024 as a set of capsule rooms attached to the bath hall. Each capsule sleeps one person, and the English stay page adds a line of its own: "Note: This room is for men only."

The Japanese page lists a wall-mounted television, a locker for valuables and Wi-Fi in each capsule, and a bath towel, a tenugui, a toothbrush, a hairbrush, a body towel and a razor for each guest. Capsule guests bathe free of charge, and the page says the baths, the sauna, the comic corner and the lounge are theirs to use for the whole stay. Coin lockers for larger bags are limited in number and cost 200 yen per use.

Neither language version gives the size of a capsule, so this site does not state one. The door photographed on 13 October 2026 carries a plaque reading MAX CABIN ROOM 1-44. For what a night in a capsule is like, see this site's capsule hotel guide.

Dome tents

The three dome tents opened in September 2024, and the English stay page sells them on their position: "This dome tent is a superbly located accommodation with a view of Mt. Komagatake." Each dome is a half-sphere of 38 square metres with a high ceiling and large windows, and sleeps up to four. The third and fourth guests sleep on futons.

Log-house villas

The villas are private log houses in the grounds, in four sizes, and the Japanese villa page dates all of them to August 2024, either renewed or newly opened. Each house has a kitchen, a bath, a toilet with a bidet seat, a smart television, a wireless speaker, air conditioning that both cools and heats, a fridge, a rice cooker, an oven-microwave, bedding, tableware and Wi-Fi. Villa guests bathe at the onsen free of charge.

The smallest house is the Cabin, 28.81 square metres with bunk beds; two cabins form one block, so another party may be staying in the other half. The Cottage, 53.86 square metres, pairs a wooden living room with a Japanese room where guests lay out their own futons. The Junior Suite Villa and the Suite Villa each have a living room, a Japanese room and a wooden-floored room. The resort's pages do not agree on how many people the Suite Villa sleeps, with figures from 13 to 15, so the table above says more than ten; ask the resort when booking for a large group.

The resort does not drive guests between the hotel and the villas, so guests make their own way to the baths and the restaurants.

Staying with a dog

The two language versions of the FAQ disagree about dogs. The Japanese FAQ allows them in a limited set of rooms and at the camp sites, and asks owners for proof of vaccination.

The English FAQ says the opposite: "Unfortunately, it is not possible to have pets staying in your room, regardless of the type of room." Where the two versions differ, this guide follows the Japanese pages, which are the ones showing this year's dates. Even so, anyone travelling with a dog should confirm with the resort before booking.

Groups and school trips

Two buildings are set aside for groups. Central Lodge, which the resort offers for training camps and other group stays, has seven rooms of bunk beds, sleeping from 4 to 10 people each and 50 in all, with a meeting room, a projector and screen, a washing machine, a dryer and a shower room. A separate Japanese room of 36 tatami mats, 55.74 square metres, takes up to 15 people and stands in front of the hotel building. Neither has Wi-Fi; the group page sends guests to the hotel lobby for it.

Lodging tax

A notice on the resort's site dated 13 April 2026 says that Hokkaido's lodging tax applies to stays from 1 April 2026 and is charged on top of the room price. The notice itself gives no amount, so this site does not quote one here. Hokkaido's tax is covered in this site's accommodation tax guide.

Camping at Greenpia Onuma

The resort has three camp sites: Site 1 on open ground about 300 metres in front of the hotel, Site 2 about 800 metres behind it in a more natural setting, and Site 3 beside Site 2, an open site where cars and motorbikes may not enter. A pitch with a car starts at 4,000 yen, check-in runs from 13:00 to 18:00, and camp guests can bathe at the onsen hall for 1,000 yen per adult, as often as they like during the stay.

The camp page recommends Site 1 to first-time campers, because the hotel is next door, and Site 2 to people who want more of nature around them. At Sites 1 and 2 the price covers one tent per car. The powered pitches at Site 2 supply up to 7.5 amps, or 750 watts; the page warns that anything above that trips the breaker, and that restoring the power takes a while.

Camp guests' bathing hours are 13:00 to 21:00 on the day of arrival, with the counter closing at 20:00, and 6:00 to 9:30 the next morning, with the counter closing at 8:30.

Day camping, without staying the night, is taken at Site 1 only. It runs from 11:00 to 21:00 and starts at 2,000 yen for a car and 1,000 yen per person for a motorbike or a bicycle.

One event changes the arrangement. When the resort holds its fireworks event in September, Site 1 closes and only Sites 2 and 3 take campers, at an extra charge. The camp page gives no opening and closing dates for the sites themselves, so this site does not quote any. Ask the resort before planning a night under canvas early in spring or late in autumn.

Where to eat at Greenpia Onuma

The resort has three restaurants. Hamanasu, in the hotel, serves dinner and breakfast to guests who booked a stay with meals; Marimo, attached to the onsen hall, is open to anyone at lunch and dinner and closes on Tuesdays; and Morimori opens from 11:00 to 14:30 in the snow season.

Hamanasu: dinner and breakfast for staying guests

Staying guests on a plan with meals eat at Hamanasu, a dining room with panoramic windows. The English meal page describes the evening: "The dinner served in the hotel is a kaiseki course meal made with various Hokkaido ingredients." Kaiseki is a Japanese dinner of many small dishes brought to the table in sequence.

The Japanese page names the courses. The basic one is a seasonal kaiseki, and the one the resort recommends most is built on beef from Shiraoi and hairy crab from Mori, the town the resort stands in. Children are served a kaiseki of their own. The format changes when the hotel is full, as the English page warns: "Note: Dinner will be buffet-style during peak season." The Japanese page names the year-end and New Year holidays and the summer holidays as those periods, and says the buffet uses Hokkaido ingredients.

The seven items are egg, milk, wheat, shrimp, crab, buckwheat and peanut. The dinner hours above are those in the Japanese FAQ; the resort's English pages show a longer dinner window, and this guide follows the Japanese pages, as it does wherever the two differ.

Marimo: lunch and dinner for anyone

Marimo is the restaurant attached to the onsen hall, and people who are not staying at the resort may eat there. It was fully renovated in July 2024 and has 50 seats, with a menu of Japanese, Western and Chinese dishes. Lunch runs from 11:30 to 15:00 with last orders at 14:30, and dinner from 16:30 to 20:00 with last orders at 19:30. The restaurant closes every Tuesday, and its page says the hours can change with the season, pointing to the notices on the resort's site.

The dish its page calls the most popular, and the restaurant's speciality, is ankake yakisoba at 1,100 yen: fried noodles under a thick, starchy sauce.

Morimori: curry and noodles in the snow season

Morimori has 60 seats and, in the snow season, opens from 11:00 to 14:30 as a place to eat and to rest. Its page does not say where in the grounds it stands, and it gives the dishes below as examples from the menu.

In the green season Morimori changes role. It becomes a restaurant for jingisukan, lamb and vegetables grilled at the table, and takes groups by reservation only.

Summer and autumn activities at Greenpia Onuma: the ticket system

From late April to early November the outdoor activities at Greenpia Onuma are paid for with tickets rather than cash. One ticket costs 350 yen, or 400 yen from 1 July to 31 August, and each ride or rental takes a set number of them. Guests staying the night get 20% off and camp guests 10% off. The 2026 season opened on Saturday 25 April, and its calendar ends on Tuesday 3 November.

The resort's English facilities page sums the system up in one line: "The activity facilities at Greenpia Onuma are ticket-based, with some exceptions." The English FAQ says where to buy: "Tickets are sold at the Shiki no Mori Ticket Center (next to the hotel)." The Japanese FAQ adds that there is currently nowhere to buy them in advance, and the English one is blunt about tickets left over: "Refunds are not available."

Opening days and hours

The outdoor facilities do not run every day. The Japanese outdoor page gives the pattern as every Saturday, Sunday and public holiday, plus every day in the summer period from 25 July to 23 August, and it adds that some facilities keep different days.

This site's photographs were taken on Tuesday 13 October 2026, a weekday outside that pattern, so nothing in this section describes a ride from experience.

Ticket prices

The Japanese activity page prints three price lists: a general one, one for guests staying at the resort and one for people using the camp sites. In each, the price in brackets is the summer price, charged from 1 July to 31 August. A ticket costs the same at any age.

The same page sells an unlimited-play pass for the outdoor facilities, for three hours or for a whole day, priced by age.

Prices for the three-hour pass:

Prices for the one-day pass:

The English facilities page still lists lower prices, such as 300 yen for a single ticket, and draws its student band more widely, so the prices and age bands here are the Japanese page's.

The Japanese page says the pass and the tickets are for the outdoor play facilities and lists no exceptions. The coin-operated train described below takes coins rather than tickets, so it is worth asking at the ticket centre which rides a pass covers before buying one.

As a guide to the sums, one solo ride on a buggy takes two tickets. That is 700 yen at the general price, 560 yen for a guest staying the night, and 800 yen at the general price in July and August. An adult's three-hour pass, at 4,200 yen, costs the same as twelve single tickets.

What each activity costs in tickets

The outdoor page gives a ticket count for every ride and rental. The table repeats them as that page lists them; the times are how long one go or one rental lasts.

The inflatable play area holds several inflatables. Children aged 2 and under need no ticket, and children of junior-high age and older and the adults who come in with a child are not charged. Inside it a coin-operated battery train runs on rails, at 200 yen a go. Two things cost nothing in the green season: the athletic course and a giant doughnut-shaped climbing frame.

The land car is the one activity that asks for a driving licence: the page says an ordinary licence is required to drive it, on a route along the Shukunobe River. It does not say whether a foreign licence or an International Driving Permit counts, so ask at the ticket centre before buying tickets for it. What visitors need in order to drive on Japan's roads is covered in this site's guide to driving in Japan.

For groups and company outings the resort also offers a sports ground, a gymnasium and tennis courts. The signboard photographed on 13 October 2026 priced a tennis court at 2,200 yen an hour.

Drones are not allowed. The English FAQ says: "Due to safety reasons, we are unable to allow use of drones within the area." The Japanese FAQ makes an exception for flights the resort has permitted in advance, such as for media coverage. Japan's wider drone rules are in this site's guide to rules for tourists in Japan.

The indoor pool, karaoke and table tennis

Greenpia Onuma has a heated indoor pool that is open all year, in the Hottopia onsen hall, along with karaoke rooms, table tennis and a game corner. The activity tickets are for the outdoor facilities, so the pool, karaoke and table tennis each have their own price in yen.

Beside the main pool there are a children's pool, a water slide and a jacuzzi.

Pool hours and prices

The night pool has no fixed days, so ask the resort whether one is planned for the dates of a trip.

Guests staying at the hotel pay 350 yen for an adult and 250 yen for a child. Prices for day visitors:

A day visitor's fee covers up to three hours. The resort's indoor page defines a child as aged 3 to the sixth year of primary school and a senior as 60 or over.

Because the rental swimsuits come in children's sizes only, adults need to bring their own.

The pages put the line for an accompanying adult in slightly different places: the pool page at the fourth year of primary school and below, the Japanese FAQ at the third year and below.

The two FAQs also disagree about swimming caps. The Japanese one says a cap is not required, while the English one says: "Both adults and children must wear a cap in the heated pool." This guide follows the Japanese pages, as it does elsewhere, but packing a cap settles the question either way.

Karaoke

Karaoke runs from 10:00 to 21:30, with reception until 21:00, and until 24:00 for guests staying the night. The machines keep score, singing alone is welcome, and preschool children are free.

A room for up to 20 people costs 2,500 yen for two hours and needs a reservation. Food and drink from the Marimo restaurant and the after-bath lounge can be brought into the rooms, and guests staying the night can settle the bill at check-out.

Table tennis and the game corner

The table-tennis corner lends ordinary bats and odd-shaped ones. The game corner's longer hours also apply during the Golden Week, summer and winter holiday periods.

One thing to check before counting on it is bowling. The English facilities page lists a bowling alley, and a line on the Japanese pool page mentions bowling too, but the Japanese indoor page gives no section, hours or price for it.

Dates and prices on this page that will change

Almost every number in this guide belongs to a season. These are the ones most likely to be out of date first, with the day each was read.

• The ski season. The opening date moves with the snow.
• Lift tickets. The prices are those listed on 13 October 2026, with no season label beside them.
• Green-season dates. Dates for 2027 were not on the pages read; the 2026 opening date came in a notice dated 9 March 2026.
• Summer prices. Activity tickets and the pool cost more in the summer period, and the pool stays open an hour longer.
• Events. The children's festival is a single day. The Wednesday sauna sessions are a running event and can change.
• Onsen hours. The morning break and the later opening of the open-air bath on cleaning days are as the hot-spring page gave them on 13 October 2026.
• Lodging tax. The resort's notice says only that the tax applies to stays from 1 April 2026, and gives no amount.
• Restaurant hours. Marimo's hours and closing day, and Morimori's snow-season opening, are the ones on the resort's pages on 13 October 2026.
• This site's photographs. They record one afternoon, 13 October 2026. The displays, the produce on sale and the price tags in them will have changed.

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