After visiting Daisen Masumizu Highland on the 28th of December, we decided to do a second day of snowboarding at Daisen White Resort (大山ホワイトリゾート) on the final day of 2025. Since the snowfall this year had been a bit late, only a portion of the resort was open. This is the main ski field on Mt Daisen, and there were plenty of people about.
Unfortunately, the snow was pretty crap. The beginner slope was basically rock solid, and I think they tried their best with some artificial snow on the intermediate field further up but it wasn’t too great. It made me appreciate how good we had it at Masumizu a couple days prior. However with some proper snow, I think it would make for a much better beginner-friendly ski resort than Masumizu.
A ski day from Tokyo is a bit of an ordeal and involves waking up before 5am to drive 3 - 4 hours to Gunma or Nagano and battling traffic on the freeways. In comparison, heading out from Shimane to one of the local ski fields was only an 80 minute drive along a quiet 1-lane highway road.
Not to mention we borrowed my husband’s parent’s car, and I’m not on their car insurance so I got to skip out on the driving duties (lol). So even though the snow itself wasn’t too great, it was still a fairly chill day out.
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