When does the ski season start in ski resorts near Tokyo? Any good mountains for snowboarding? A...

Hi there,

I live in Tokyo and we always start going to the snow approx from November or December.
It depends how it is cold enough, but we can snowboarding end of December at least.
We often start with Tenjindaira Skii Resort the first of the season.
Then Nagano or Gunma area would be around in Jan or Feb.
Nagano area opens around November, but it's not so close from Tokyo.
Hakuba is very famous for snowborders so that it has tons of accommodations in Hakuba area which has English speakers or even runs by non-Japanese owner.

As long as you don't choose the small skii course, like it has only 1 or 2 course/s, they always have schools for kids.
Though they might have some limitation of ages, like ”More than 4 years old”.

Hope this can be your help!