Ryuoo Ski Park — Attraction in Yamanouchi

DO NOT COME HERE OR PLAN A TRIP HERE By far THE WORST ski mountain I have ever been to in my life. I’m not even sure where to begin with this review - the entire place is a shambles. The place is operating in the stone ages and as a result the queues are horrendous. Queues are expected at ski resorts but this is next level! We got on the mountain at 830am, finished at 430pm. No lie we did 4 runs the entire day due to excessive queues for everything. The Main ropeway to the top comes once every 20 min. They mark runs as “intermediate” that are barely even beginner level. Runs are short and frankly boring as bat crap. There was one decent run from the top of the rope way which they apparently shut at 3pm… however they don’t advertise this anywhere. So we queued for an hour to get there only to find the run was closed! They offer no other way down except to stand in another wretched queue and wait for the world’s slowest, longest ropeway to arrive. The staff operating the lifts have no idea what they are doing and any form of organisation of the mammoth lines is non existent. We saw People falling of lifts and the operators just staying in the hut doing nothing. Honestly the place is archaic - pretty to look at but that’s probably the only positive thing I can scrape out. Has been an utter waste of time and money and we can’t wait to get out of here. Maybe for extreme beginners it could be an ok option, but unless you like standing in queues more than actually skiing / boarding, do yourself a favour and avoid this place...

Experience is soo amazing!!🤩

The thrill was so exciting!!

If your from the top of hill you can slide for almost 10~15 minutes or even more even if your fast. The snow slides are connected to each other.

There’s a place called Skyland Station(a 10-minute ride up to the top of the hill) it’s soooo high!!

It was exciting but I was soooo afraid of it 😳 😱 😆 !!!

Just an aerophobia 😂 ,anyways it’s a FREE ride just use your card.

You will also get a FREE 500Yen drinks 🍹 up in Skyland Station while experience the top of the mountains 😊

If your expert enough you can try the snow slide ( skiing) from Skyland station below.

It’s very dangerous for me but you can try if you are expert enough!! Please be careful and enjoy!!!

Yes ob course, there is a card uses for lifts, and they also provide night snow slides (skiing) but up to 9 pm only.

From the top of Skyland Station there is still another snow slides up hill 😂

I though it was the end but still you can ride lifts and slide uphill 😂 I never expected that.

They also provide foods for dinner and breakfast maybe additional around 2000~3000yen/day if I remember it correctly.

Make sure to bring a copy of your covid certificate so you can get a discount.

The rest of it 😉

Have a great...

Avoid Friday-Sunday. Extremely crowded, packed with teen and uni students. We had 20-40 minute waits for just about every chair after 9am until lunch and picks up again after 1pm

The worst part was just how dangerous the mountain was, in two days of skiing I saw 20+ loose snowboards flying down the hill and smashing into kids and other riders, and consist out of control snowboarders crashing into other riders. Groups of beginner snowboarders would sit mid run side by side across the whole face with their backs turned blocking the entire slope. I saw one uni aged student let go of her snowboard while sitting in the middle of the slope on her cell phone, waited for the board to smash into other riders then went immediately back on her phone and ignored her board down the hill and the people she just hit at the bottom of the chair..

The mountain allows skis and snowboards to be carried onto the lifts which pass over every run area. I didn’t see a single ski patrol or enforcement of any sort of safety protocol around the lift drop off area or slopes. Of the 25+ mountains I’ve skied in Japan this was by far the most busy, chaotic and dangerous mountain...