This Ski Resort Has Epic Snow, Hot Springs, Lift Tickets for Under $100, and the Best Ramen on Earth

This Ski Resort Has Epic Snow, Hot Springs, Lift Tickets for Under $100, and the Best Ramen on Earth

"Japow" really is all it's cracked up to be. Keattisak A/Getty Images Snow ski activity at Mount Yotei in Niseko a village in Hokkaido, Japan.The first thing I noticed about Niseko wasn’t the landscape—it was the snow. It looked different, finer somehow, like sifted flour or powdered sugar. By my second turn down the mountain, I understood why skiers and snowboarders travel here from halfway across the world. “Japow,” as devotees call it, isn’t …