SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted August 27 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted August 27 About the updating of our ski area information [2024-2025 season] Every year, we manually check and update the information about Japanese ski areas published on SnowJapan. The process of updating information for the upcoming 2024-2025 season has already started. It's complicated and time-consuming, and over the next 3-4 months, we will be checking and updating information every day. Here's more about what we do and what you can expect: It is a manual process. Our intention is to bring you correct, reliable, and up-to-date information. We only use original, reliable and official Japanese language sources. (Reasons: many ski areas are slow to update any official English information they have; also, lots of non-official English information that can be found online (*outside of SnowJapan, of course!) is out-of-date - sometimes extremely out of date!) We are as careful and thorough as possible when checking and updating our information. Updates for each ski area (about 500 of them) are often done in stages as information becomes available and we become aware of it. (For example, planned opening dates are usually announced first, then lift ticket prices, with other details following at a later date). During the process, we go back to check and update information on each ski area multiple times. As such, updates may seem random, and some information from the previous season will temporarily remain on a page. To be clear, updates do not appear automatically and/or simultaneously - it is an ongoing and gradual process. We try to update information for larger, more well-known and popular ski areas as early as possible. However, that is not always possible since we rely on official information sources. In our experience over 20+ years, most Japanese ski areas do not update their websites until November. As crazy as it might sound, some even wait until December to provide up-to-date information You can expect the bulk of updates to appear on SnowJapan from late October through late November/early December. As always, and as long-time followers of SnowJapan will know, we are not here to bring you marketing messaging or promotional press releases. No one ever tells us what to do or publish, and we'll always do what we feel is right. Please read this for more information on 'planned opening dates'. Our weather/snow reporting will start appearing later in November and daily from when ski lifts open. Gambarimasu! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted September 4 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted September 4 Early September The main updates we are making at the moment are more detailed ski area 'planned season dates' for ski areas around Japan. For example, take a look at the updated info for Niseko Tokyu Grand Hirafu (towards the top of the page): https://www.snowjapan.com/japan-ski-resorts/hokkaido/kutchan/niseko-mountain-resort-grand-hirafu Remember to check out explanation of these 'planned season dates': https://www.snowjapan.com/guides/about/about-season-dates Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted September 30 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted September 30 Early October The daily updates continue! We continue to add more detailed 'planned season dates' as they are announced, and there are now more ski areas announcing lift ticket prices along with other details, so those are also gradually being updated. (The information for the upcoming season for over 20 ski areas has now been completed. Only about 480 left to finish up!) ----------------------------------- Remember to check out our explanation of these 'planned season dates': https://www.snowjapan.com/guides/about/about-season-dates You can also check on when ski areas opened in the last two seasons here: https://www.snowjapan.com/guides/graphs/japanese-ski-areas-opening-closing-dates-2023-2024 https://www.snowjapan.com/guides/graphs/japanese-ski-areas-opening-closing-dates-2022-2023 Link to post Share on other sites
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