06 February, 2025
Our vacation in Japan was like a fairy tale! Snow and ice, sculptures in Sapporo, and an amazing atmosphere ! Our hotel was 5 minutes from the center, clean and comfortable!
We were even more delighted with the Tomamu resort! Our accomodation in the tower had a wonderful view to a snowy resort.
Ice village was wonderful! Everything was very convenient and thought out! Beauty and snow, mountains and comfort made our vacation the best winter vacation! The largest pool in Japan, hot spring, ice village, restaurants, glass passages! ! Huge thanks to Hisae Cameron, For help in everything! Easy and fast communication, advice and organization - all this helped us to have a beautiful holiday.
Thanks to Tamamu resort and special thanks to Nicholas, for his very professional lessons! He helped me to improve my skills and fix my mistakes. Nicholas was very friendly and professional and I enjoyed my lessons.
Thank you very much
Tatiana & Anatoli
29 January, 2025
I recently had the pleasure of staying at Hoshino Resorts Tomamu, and we mostly enjoyed this stay
We loved the ice village and access for kids (and kidult activities such as sledding) We’re a family with kids and there were plenty of time to do with kids. For the skier family you might need a bit more time to get organised
What we liked
- From the moment we arrived, the staff were warm, welcoming, and attentive to our every need.
- The resort itself is beautifully designed, lots of enclosed walk ways making it easy to navigate the reaper facilities ave restaurant.
- Room: Our room was spacious, comfortable, and had a stunning view of the surrounding mountains. And importantly some bay window space that you can try some laundry on
- Skiing - great! fairly short runs but when there is powder this resort really transforms.
- Food: good but prepare yourself for average 3500-5000 yen per person for dinner. Lunch OSS around 1500-2000 depending on what you choose. That days serving sizes are generous.
- The snow- so fluffy and we were lucky to have hit a snow week so lots of powder skiing
- Indoor pool- I mean heated pool in snow under cover - amazing
- Childcare - really loving and caring teacher who accommodated the need for our kid to have lunch but still cost around ¥3500 per hour
Didn’t like:
- Food options were centralised between the towers ands risonaire so every dinner requires a walk in the walkways- which is lovely unless you have young tired kids which makes them feel longer than needed
- Ski lessons- limited English slots and only my for 2 hours so you’re popping around the resort to meet pick up times
- Daycare- expensive but generally available. Really kind teachers. About 3500 yen per hour as at Jan 2025 - not linked to the ski school so you have to do the pick up drop off yourself
- Dinner wait times- for the cheaper options really long wait queues - esp if you have a kid asking when it’s our turn
- Ski hire- limited information on the ski hire - in summary as at 2025 - for normal carve skis it’s about ¥3000 per day - really cheap but also really heavy which makes skiing on powder a lot of work. If you want higher spec skis go to the Tomamu resort centre (a 5 mins resort bus away) - where ski rental double to 6000+ per day but you’ll get proper powder skis / all mountain skis- this was not quite available on the site to read
- Onsen - off site to have to take a bus to get there and though the buses run frequently it’s annoying to wear full snow gear after skiing to catch a bus - that said it is nice and quiet most of the time for this same reason
- Limited on piste dining- really interesting spot in the it’s the first mountain I’ve been on where on piste dining was limited - most dining options were at the bottom of runs which make it really family friendly if you have non skier but also lines were long
All in all a really great ski trip as there are mainly new skiers on the mountain so if you like the more advanced routes it’s usually quite free. Might not go back til the kids can ski independently though as the lessons time are a killer for pick up and drop off
Sandy
03 December, 2024
Tomamu & Sapporo package
We had a lovely time in both Sapporo and Tomamu. The Sapporo hotel was a pleasant surprise - spacious, convenient, and simple and good breakfast. It's a pity that we were in Tomamu so early in the season and only one slope was open, plus the ice village wasn't ready, but we were so lucky that snow was good and we had a really wonderful time. The room was spacious enough for all 5 of us to stay in comfortably (that view was gorgeous!), and it was so convenient to be able to just take the lift down and walk out to the slopes. Ski lessons worked beautifully for our kids - the instructors were all so good with them. Food options were amazing as well, though we wish there were more options open in the afternoon. All in, we had a fantastic holiday and everyone's looking forward to our next trip. Thank you for being so accommodating and for helping us with the planning!
Zenn
