Niseko in Hokkaido, Japan, will be home to two major new lifts next season – in one of the biggest spends on new lift infrastructure in Japan for a generation.
There will also be two new conveyor lifts. The new Village Express, a combination six-person chairlift with eight passenger gondola cabins, will be the first of its kind in Japan. There’ll also be a new Upper Village pulsed gondola, another first for Japan, and both lifts are part of YTL Hotels master plan vision for Niseko Village, which will also see a new 1.2km ski run and the two beginner conveyor lifts added for next winter. The new lifts, which are being built by Nippon Cable Company, a licensee of Doppelmayr technology, are in a separate part of Niseko to the main resort at Hirafu Village and will in part provide access to an expanding ski village above Kasara Niseko Village Townhouse and The Green Leaf Niseko Village up to a beginners’ ski area on the mountainside above. The lifts will run until 10pm each evening.
