Nozawa Snowsports Ski School | SamuraiSnow

Samurai Snow Concierge

Celebrating a century since opening the Nozawa Onsen Ski Resort, the Nozawa Snowsports School proudly continues to spread the joy of skiing and snowboarding to those new to the sport, as well as helping old hands develop their techniques.

For international guests we have a team of professional international instructors from around the world.

No matter how young or old, new or experienced, we offer a variety of packages to suit your needs.

Nozawa Snowsports School is located at the top of the moving walkway, at the base of the Hikage Gondola and Pair lift.

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Private Lessons

We offer several different options for private lessons with our instructors from all around the world.

Nozawa Snowsports School is located at the top of the moving walkway, at base of the Hikage Gondola and Pair lift.

Group Lessons

Group lessons with our instructors from all around the world will help you to learn to ski/snowboard or to fine tune your techniques with other guests of similar ability.

Lessons for very first timers are run daily for infants, children and adults for both ski and snowboard.

Resort Information

Samurai Snow offers accommodation in a choice of 8 different ski resorts.

If you have not yet decided on your preferred ski resort, please check out our Japan Ski Resorts page, which has a wealth of information on the ski resorts that we offer.

Niseko and Hakuba are the largest ski resorts each with multiple villages to choose from.

You can search for accommodation in all of the villages within Niseko or Hakuba by selecting “Niseko – Any Village” or “Hakuba – Any Village” OR you can search by village, for example “Niseko – Hirafu or Hakuba – Happo One.

More information on each Niseko and Hakuba village can be found on our village guide for each ski resort:

Room Availability Information / Booking

The light blue bar at the top of the page shows the price and availability status of the accommodation (Available OR Enquire for Availability) for the stay dates listed.

When changing the stay dates, be sure to click the Update button to get the price and availability status of the new dates.

Where a discount is on offer, the pricing shown has the discount already applied.

Checking Availability

If the availability status is “Enquire for Availability” you can check availability by clicking on the “Enquire Now” button and submitting the accommodation enquiry form.

Please ensure you select “I/we would like to Check if this accommodation is available” in the first field of the form.

We will respond to you via email to confirm the availability status within 24-48 hours.

Booking

To proceed with booking the accommodation, click on the “Book Now” button and submit the accommodation enquiry form.

Please ensure you select “I/we would like to Book this accommodation” in the first field of the form.

Within 24-48 hours, we will send instructions to you on how to pay the deposit required to secure the booking.

The price of bookings is fixed in Japanese Yen but you can pay in your home currency.