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Summer-Only Ski Resort in Japan Opens 2025 Season with Record Snow Depth

While most ski resorts across the Northern Hemisphere are winding down operations, Gassan, Japan, has just started its season last month. Tsukiyama Ski Area at Mount Gassan opened for its 2025 ski season on Friday, April 11, offering one of the world’s rare opportunities to ski in summer. Located in the town of Nishikawa in central Yamagata Prefecture on Japan’s […]

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Julia Schneemann | May 3, 2025
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This Ski Resort in Japan Doesn’t Open Until April Because They Have Too Much Snow in Winter

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Gassan Snow Resort is an outlier in Japan and most of the Northern Hemisphere. Whilst most resorts open early November to late April and Japanese resorts are known for even shorter seasons that start in December and end in early March, this ski area located on Japan’s main island starts its season in April and stops the lifts turning in […]

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Steven Agar | November 11, 2019
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