Shizukuishi Early Bird Package

Early Feb 2024 

Firstly, we love Japan, the people, the culture, so much beauty! This was a nice variation from the other resorts. The food was very nice but it was the same each night. Other resorts change up the menu which is nice. The runs were not overcrowded, the snow fall was down on previous years apparently. You could catch a bus in to Morioka, which was good, but it basically would use up the whole day.

Daryl 

Early Feb 2024

We had a great time at the accommodation we booked through you.  The best was Geto, with their fantastic japanese meals. Their staff was also very approachable and friendly.  Shizukuishi was nice being on the snow, but typical of the large Prince establishments with large self serve eateries and snow just outside the door.  Very functional but very impersonal.  Our accommodation at  Hakuba was also very good, staff were very accommodating and friendly and everything ran well except the snow. It wasnt really a good year for snow, but that was nearly everywhere not just japan.  In the 13 years we have skied in Japan this was the lowest snow - climate change is catching up.  Still good fun.  We skipped 2 days skiing due to rain, out of a total of 17 days planned skiing.  At least we had the option of skipping.
Thank you for what you arranged for this trip. Despite the snow we still enjoyed ourselves in comfortable surroundings.

John Floyd

Late Jan 2024

Just letting you know that we had another amazing ski holiday. We absolutely loved Appi, had amazing snow and the rooms were so spacious. Our room with the outdoor bath was amazing!! We also loved exploring the smaller resort of Shizukuishi and loved that that both resorts were basically empty! Thank you again for organising the jumbo taxi transfers. They made our transfers so much easier without having to worry about changing trains/buses etc!!

Janelle

Mid January 2024

Late Jan 2024 

Thank you for organising a great trip for us this year it was perfect like every other trip you have organised the accomodation at Shizukishi and Appi was great. The snow at Shizukishi was not as much as Appi which is normal however we had a great time the Hotel and rooms were great. Appi we had a room overlooking the carpark and we requested an upgrade which was granted to a suite overlooking the mountain which was amazing, the snow at Appi was great on a few days and not so great on others. We did two cat tours and lots of hiking to find good snow.

Nigel

1st February 2023

Shizukuishi was an excellent choice for us, great Onsen, Prince hotel with great buffet (included in the package) Japanese dinners and breakfasts. Good value money-wise. Great views from our room of Iwate.

Down side was the early closure of lifts and the base of the fast lift was not accessible directly from hotel. We declined the cat skiing as it only ran on weekends was booked out and poor value. The price has escalated more than double from what was available pre-Covid.

Many Thanks again for arranging the packages, we hope the feedback is useful. 
Your information in the emails was very good.

Richard Jasek

21st January 2023

 

Shizukuishi Prince hotel was the second stop on our trip after Appi Kogen.

We booked the 6 night early bird package.

It was an easy transfer from Appi. Just got the bus from Appi to Morioka and then another bus to Shizukuishi. We spent some time in Morioka shopping and then got the free 50 minute shuttle to Shizukuishi.

Everthing is a lot smaller and more personal at Shizukuishi which we liked.

The room was a standard twin size, but had enough room for a table and chairs by the window with a great view. It had a Nespresso coffee machine which was well appreciated. Overall it was very modern and well designed. I cant remember if I chose the upgraded room or not, but it seemed quite new.

The food was pretty standard buffet for breakfast and dinner. I feel they could improve on the overall dining experince. Amazing views form the resteraunt, but did feel like a school dining hall.

The staff were very great. I especially like the old guy working in the rental store. He was always genki! Put me in a good mood before I hit the slopes.

Each morning you need to get the gondala up to the mountain. It takes about 5-10 minutes. This a cool experience. From there you can access the chair lifts and you have one Japanese restaurant to eat at. I would reccomend to Kontatsu if you are hungry and its tasty! At the end of the day you can snowboard back to the hotel.

We had some super snowy and windy days, which kept the crowds down and the areas we wanted to go were still open. They have some ungroomed runs, but when they groom they go hard...all the way to the tress. The runs are very wide, so I think they have room to leave some ungroomed snow on the sides.

We were spoilt at Appi with the Gondala and it took us a while to adjust to geting smashed by the weather on a slow chairlift. But, after a while we got used to it and appreciated the lack of crowds.

It also had a super fun entry level snow park which my son loved.

The onsen was amazing and there seemed to be a lot of visitors who weren't snowboarding, so I think thats what they were there for.

Pete

15th January 2023

Mid Feb 2020

We had a great time and really lucked in with the snow as it dumped from the first day we got there to within 2 days from the end when rain was predicted.

The Shizikuishi hotel was very nice, everything you need right there.

You service as usual was excellent and we really appreciate all the help you provided.

Once again thanks for everything and hope to do the same next year.

Regards

Scott

Late January 2020

Mid January 2020

The trip was awesome, shame the snow wasn’t that great.  But saying that it was still a hundred times better than NZ and we managed some powder at Geto Kogen and Oze.

Shizukuishi Prince was a great hotel to stay at.  Ski in ski out is the best way to go. 

The ski field was good, with a lot of variety and pitch , (was hard to judge the overall experience as there wasn’t that much, blue ice for the bottom 1/3 of the mountain)  the cat skiing was ok due to the limited snow, but I can see the potential.  It’s a shame the old gondola has been removed as that would have opened up a whole lot of tree runs. This field would be great for back country skiing when there is snow. (and I hear rumours that they may be removing the other gondola)

 

We shot over to Iwata Kogen (which is a short taxi ride) for a day which has plenty of pitch but was hard going with hard pack ski runs. (when you go for powder and you only have powder skis, its hard work).

 

The onsen at the Prince is one of the best we have been to.

 

Would defiantly go back again and check out the other ski areas in this area.

Really loved your service and help making this a great holiday. 

Dave

 

 

 

 

 

Mid Feb 2019

Ealy January 2019

Our stay was amazing! From start to finish, we had a blast!

closest chairlift - Prince Chairlift & Ropeway 
closest train station - JR Shizukuishi (20 minutes) OR JR Morioka (40 minutes)

Free scheduled shuttle bus is available from both JR Shizukuishi and Morioka, which we can help book in advance.

SHIZUKUISHI

Shizukuishi is located in Iwate prefecture on the main island of Honshu. Shizukuishi boasts a combination of beautiful natural views of Mt. Iwate, long exciting trails, and superb quality snow thanks to the cold, dry air that blows down from the north. The 13 scenic trails take full advantage of the natural terrain to provide plenty of variety, with the longest trail stretching to a thigh burning 4,500m.  It is a good sized resort with challenging courses.  You can enjoy the CAT tours if you stay over the weekends at a reasonable cost.

It is only 50 minutes by free shuttle bus from Morioka to Shizukuishi Ski Resort.  

We reccomend staying at the Shizukuishi Prince Hotel, which is a ski in ski out resort hotel.