Posts from — November 2008

From Nowhere to No Vacancy

Once a rural locality in the throes of serious social and economic decline, today the Japanese ski town of Niseko, situated in northern Hokkaido, is regarded as a world-class skiing destination. Niseko has enjoyed a tenfold increase in the number of foreign skiers over the past five years, and now the area is also home to some of the fastest rising land prices in the land of the rising sun. [Read more →]