Niseko Ski & Snowboard School (29)
NOASC Niseko runs our famous lessons from early December until late April. Our most popular lessons are our private ski lessons.
NOASC Private Snowboard Lessons
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Private Snowboard Lessons (from 4 - 6 hours)
Private lessons from beginners through to advanced levels for individuals through to small groups (semi-private 1- 6 persons). Ideal for those who prefer closer personal approach. The lesson program is tailored to you - you determine what we are going to focus on and what is important to you. Our instructors will propose the best exercises, drills and terrain to ride, so you will get the most out of your lessons. Let's start your snowboarding progress with NOASC! Choose from 4 or 6 hour lessons. NOTE: Only private or semi-private lessons are available for children.
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- Price From 56,000yen (4hrs) - 76,000 yen (6hrs)+,
- Duration 8:30 - 16:30 (choose your time)
- Meeting Time 15mins before lesson time
- Min. Age 4 years plus
- Min. Persons 1 persons (extra persons of equal level allowed)
- Season December through to April
- Your level? Click here to find your level.
- Book NOW! Click here to book this lesson.
- What to bring? Click here to view.
The season is nearing and NOASC is running private skiing and snowboarding lessons at Rusutsu, Kiroro, etc., ski resorts. All lessons include an optional free pick and drop off service from your accommodation at these resorts or in Niseko. Call NOASC to book your lessons in advance to avoid missing out. Telephone +81.136.23.1688.
(Note: NOASC teaches lessons at resorts other than Niseko United Resorts for the 2023/2024 Winter season. Contact NOASC for further information and to discuss your lesson resort of choice. Traveling times one-way vary with road conditions, please allow up to approximately 90 minutes for Sapporo regional resorts).
Additional Info
- Price Half-day 4hrs from 56,000yen
- Duration Am:8:30(4hrs), PM:13:30(4hrs)
- Meeting Time 15mins before lesson time
- Min. Age 4 years plus
- Min. Persons Private lessons from 1 pers+ extra for additional persons
- Season Dec. through to April
- Your level? Click here to find your level.
- Book NOW! Click here to book this lesson.
- What to bring? Click here to view.
Niseko 3 Half Day Ski/Snowboard Lesson Package
SAVE! SAVE! Get the most out of your Niseko Ski/Snowboarding Holiday with help from our 3 lesson group package. Suited to a first timer or beginner intermediate level skier/snowboarders. Our instructors will get you improving in just a few hours with this half-day group ski/snowboard lesson package. NOTE: These packages are only avialable for adult lessons.
Additional Info
- Price 23,000yen
- Meeting Time AM 10:00-12:00, PM 13:30-15:30
- Duration 2hrs
- Min. Age 13yrs
- Min. Persons 2
- Season Dec. to April
- Book NOW! Click here to book this activity!
- What to Bring? Click here to learn more
Niseko 5 Half Day Ski/Snowboard Lesson Package
SAVE! SAVE! Get the most out of your Niseko Ski/Snowboarding Holiday with help from our 5 lesson group package. Our instructors will get you improving in just a few hours with this half-day ski/snowboard lesson package.
Additional Info
- Price 43,500yen
- Meeting Time AM:10:00-12:00. PM 13:00-15:00
- Duration 2hrs
- Min. Age 13yrs
- Min. Persons 2
- Season Dec - April
- Book NOW! Click here to book this activity!
- What to Bring? Click here to learn more
Kids Private Ski/Snowboard Lessons
Get the most out of your Niseko Ski/Snowboarding Holiday with some help from NOASC's instructors looking after your kids with a half-day 4hr, 6hr ski/snowboard lessons. Our instructors are well trained in taking care of your kids, teaching them how to ski/snowboard, while most importantly keeping it all fun, and games.
Additional Info
- Price 16,500yen (extra person plus 4,500yen
- Duration Am:8:30-12:00(2hrs within), PM:13:30-16:30(2hrs within)
- Meeting Time 15mins before lesson time
- Min. Age 4 years plus
- Min. Persons 1 pers.
- Season Dec. through to April
- Your level? Click here to find your level.
- Book NOW! Click here to book this lesson.
- What to bring? Click here to view.
Full-Day Powder Ski Lessons
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Full-Day Powder Ski Lessons
Learn the necessary technique needed to conquer fresh powder lines with some help of our powder instructors and get the most out of your Niseko ski holiday. Our instructors spend most of their time off-piste skiing the "steep and deep" so they can show you the best places in the local resorts. Even if this is your first time skiing the powder, we will give you the confidence so you can enjoy what Niseko Hokkaido and surrounding resorts are famous for - bottomless powder runs and unique tree skiing! Perfect for enthusiastic skiers who have a lot of energy and want to spent full day skiing
Additional Info
- Price 56,000 yen (extra person plus 20,000 yen)
- Duration 8:30-16:30 (4hrs within)
- Meeting Time 15mins before lesson time
- Min. Age 10 years plus (check with your instructor)
- Min. Persons 1 person
- Season December through to April (best season Jan. & Feb.)
- Your level? Click here to find your level.
- Book NOW! Click here to book this lesson.
- What to bring? Click here to view.
Backcountry Tourer Lesson Level-10
At level ten you are a very competent snowboarder in all conditions; with a backpack; in heavy snow through to deep powder, on all terrain. Level ten snowboarders are able to select the safest backcountry route, analyze present and future snow conditions through snow stability tests, weather forecasts. These snowboarders can plan and travel through the backcountry in all snow conditions, using varying navigation techniques, on overnight, and/or multi-day tours.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Backcountry Explorer Lesson Level-9
Level nine snowboarders are very competent advanced snowboarders who board all mountain, all terrain, all conditions, venturing out into the backcountry (non-patrolled/no snow control) areas. Level nine snowboarders are learning about snowboarding techniques in the backcountry, basic backcountry safe travel, on full-day tours, regularly.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Mountain Explorer Lesson - Level 8
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Mountain Explorer Lesson Level-8
Level eight snowboarders are confident advanced snowboarders who carve/dynamic turn, on all terrain and in all snow conditions. Level eight snowboarders can snowboard with carving turns on black runs. Level eight snowboarders regularly board off-piste in varying terrain, including open and closed tree runs, in shallow ankle through to waist deep powder, within and outside ski resort boundaries. Learning about backcountry snowboarding and snowboarding outside the resort's boundaries on half-day tours.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Advanced Snowboard Lesson - Level 7
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Advanced Snowboard Lesson Level-7
Level Seven snowboarders are confident advance snowboarders who carve turns of varying radius' on intermediate and are refining this technique on black runs. These snowboarders experiment with dynamic turning (free riding lines per the terrain) on and off-piste. Confident enough to snowboard open trees, or shallow powder runs off-piste. Confident short radius turns and carving turns on all red runs on-piste. Maybe venturing into bump runs on occasions.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Intermediate Advance Snowboard Lesson Level-6
Level six snowboarders are confident intermediate snowboarders who can link turns on all red runs. They are able to perform basic carve turns on intermediate runs. These snowboarders board relatively fast and venture of into the powder regularly on the edge of the runs. Confident enough to snowboard among open trees, or natural powder runs off-piste.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Intermediate Snowboard Lesson Level-5
Level Five snowboarders are confident intermediate snowboarders who are able use dynamic linked turns, and stop confidently on intermediate red runs. These snowboarders board relatively fast, but may have difficulty, loosing their edges, on steeper, icy, or bumpy intermediate runs. May still slide turn to imitate turns on piste. Enjoying riding off-piste on red runs.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Beginner Intermediate Snowboard Lesson Level-4
Level Four snowboarders are cautious intermediate snowboarders who are able to link turns, and stop with dynamic stops, confidently. These snowboarders can link turns smoothly keeping constant radius on beginner (green) to intermediate (red/blue) runs with better use of their edges, at moderate speed. Riding occasionally off-piste.
Advanced Beginner Snowboard Lesson Level-3
Level Three snowboarders are novices who are able link turns both ways and stop confidently. These snowboarders can link turns smoothly keeping constant radius on beginner (green) to intermediate (red (Blue as referred to in North America, Aus., N.Z.)) ski runs. Level Three snowboarders may have snowboarded for several days and have no problem getting on or off lifts.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Intermediate Beginner Snowboard Lesson Level-2
Level Two snowboarders are cautious novices who are able to slide turn both ways and can stop on gentle beginner slopes. These snowboarders can link turns but not smoothly. Level two snowboarders will be traversing with stops and then changing direction, or pendulum/side slipping steeper areas, on other green runs.
Niseko Snowboard Lesson Information
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NOASC Niseko Snowboard Lesson Information
NOASC offers a wide range of snowboard lessons, multiday snowboard lesson packages, and snowboard hire/snowboard rental add-on packages. Contact our staff to talk about your next Niseko snowboard lesson package. Let's start our snowboarding journey!
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Niseko Ski Lesson Information
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NOASC Niseko Ski Lesson Information
NOASC offers a wide range of ski lessons, multiday ski lesson packages, and ski hire/ski rental add-on packages. Contact our staff to talk about your next Niseko ski lesson package. Let's start our skiing journey!
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Backcountry Tourer Lesson Level-11
At level eleven you are a very competent skier in all conditions; with a backpack; in heavy snow through to deep powder, on all terrain. Level eleven skiers able to select the safest backcountry route, analyse present and future snow conditions through snow stability tests, weather forcasts. These skiers can plan and travel through the backcountry in all snow conditions, using varying navigation techniques, on overnight, and/or multi-day tours.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Backcountry Explorer Ski Lesson Level-10
Level ten skiers are very confident skiers in all conditions, enjoying skiing all the mountain on and off-piste, with regularly skiing in the backcountry. Level ten skiers are continuing to learn about skiing techniques in the backcountry, backcountry travel (including hiking up techniques), snow stability tests, and backcountry safety, on full-day lessons.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Backcountry Ski Lesson - Level 9
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Backcountry Ski Lesson Level-9
Level nine skiers are confident advanced skiers who ski all mountain runs on and off-piste, venturing out into the backcountry (non-patrolled/no snow control) areas. Level nine skiers are learning about skiing techniques in the backcountry, basic backcountry safe travel, on half-day tours.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Mountain Explorer Ski Lesson Level-8
Level eight skiers are confident advanced skiers who ski parallel turns on all terrain and in all snow conditions. Level eight skiers can ski with carving turns on black runs. Level eight skiers regularly ski off-piste on in varying terrain, including open and closed tree runs, in shallow ankle through to waist deep powder, generally within ski resort boundaries. Learning about backcountry skiing and skiing outside resort boundaries.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
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Advanced Ski Lesson - Level 7
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Advanced Ski Lesson Level-7
Level Seven skiers are confident intermediate skiers who ski parallel turns of varying radius' on intermediate and black runs. These skiers experiement with dynamic turning on and off-piste. Confident enough to ski open trees, or shallow powder runs off-piste. Using their poles for timing turns. Confident short radius turns and carving turns on blue runs on-piste. Maybe venturing into moguls on occassions.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Advanced Intermediate Ski Lesson Level-6
Level six skiers are confident intermediate skiers who are able to ski parallel turns of varying radius' on intermediate runs. These skiers ski relatively fast and venture of into the powder occassionally on the edge of the runs. Still not confident enough to ski open trees, or natural powder runs off-piste. Using their poles for timing turns. Learning to carve and steer their skis in turns on piste.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Intermediate Ski Lesson - Level 5
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Intermediate Ski Lesson Level-5
Level Five skiers are confident intermediate skiers who are able to ski parallel turns, linking turns, and stop confidently on intermediate runs. These skiers ski relatively fast, but may have difficulty on steeper, icy, or bumpy intermediate runs. May still use a wedge (intermediate stem christie) to initate turns.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
Beginner Intermediate Ski Lesson Level-4
Level Four skiers are cautious intermediate skiers who are able to snowplough, linking turns, and stop confidently. These skiers can link turns smoothly keeping constant radius on beginner (green) to intermediate (shown in red within Japan) ski runs with skis sometimes becoming parallel on completion of turns, at moderate speed.
Additional Info
- Why NOASC?: Some Great reasons below
- Professional Staff: Professionally trained and qualified instructors.
- Extra Skill: Local Niseko instructors living and working in the outdoor industry all year round.
- Extra Knowledge: A mix of local Niseko and foreign Instructors/guides.
- Flexibility: All our lessons are planned with flexibility and your desires in mind.
- Personal Service: We are not a large Niseko ski school, Niseko Backcountry guiding company.
- Balanced Class: Groups of similar abilities and needs.
- Small No.'s: We don't believe in quantity, more so quality.
- Extra Service: Within the Niseko area we provide a free pick-up and drop-off service.
- Great Memories: Photo and video Service of your lesson/tour.
