Lift Pass Prices Nozawa Japan

Lift Pass Prices Nozawa Japan

Nozawa Onsen Ski Resort has just released lift prices for the coming 2019/20 Season. As was expected there has been a slight increase across the board. It is only the second increase in about 15 Years and still sone of the best value skiing in the world. 

Here is a table to Prices for next season

Children and aged 6-15 Years. If 5 and Under it is free to ski if with a paying Adult

Tickets are non consecutive if bought from Nozawa Holidays not from the Ski Resort 

Lift Pass Prices Nozawa Japan

Overall not a huge change from the past seasons but they probably needed to put them up a bit due to the following;

• A new Gondola will be going in from the season after next. It will replace the current main Nagasaka Gondola and be twice as fast and also larger being able to sit 10 people comfortably. It will take just 9 minutes to get to the top at Yamabiko and will have no mid station. It will also be better for Mountain Bikes in the Summer.
• The GST or Consumption tax is going up to 10% from current 8% which always creates some inflation across the country. There has not been much of that in the last 15 years.
• They will be replacing the current paper system with IC Card system or a Computerised Chip that will mean you can just tap your way on to the lifts. Rest assured the old farmers will still be clearing the seats of snow.
• Note if you have already booked lift passes with Nozawa Holidays they were subject to change when the resort released the prices so there will be as slight change to your booking. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Value for Money – Lift Pass Prices Nozawa Japan

We get a lot of guests from Australia and they often say Nozawa is twice the snow for half the price compared to Australian resorts. Here is a table of ski resorts around the world and their lift ticket prices in $US; Source snowboard.com https://www.snowboard.com/news/top-stories/lift-tickets/

1. Russia – $27
2. Romania – $31
3. Africa – $33
4. United Kingdom – $47
5. Japan – $50
6. Norway – $52
7. Finland – $54
8. Spain – $55
9. Italy – $59
10. France – $62
11. Austria – $64
12. Chile – $70
13. Switzerland – $77
14. Canada – $85
15. New Zealand – $87
16. New England – $93
17. Australia – $101
18. Utah – $122
19. California – $145
20. Colorado – $163

The most popular lift pass we sell is 6 days which was 26000 Yen last year and is 27000 Yen this year which works out at 4500 Yen a day or actually $US40 a day which puts us in 4th spot after Morocco! That is just $AUD57 a day for all the Aussie guests for less than Half price of Thredbo!