Traveling Made Easy: Your 7-Day Golden Week Itinerary

Golden Week is coming, you have three options: Don’t plan anything and bear the brunt of an annoyed family spending their celebrations at home. Book a holiday and spend the next two weeks frantically trying to figure out a travel itinerary. Follow our proposed itinerary and impress everyone with how well you planned your trip! […]

What’s Hakuba Brewing For The Last Month Of The Season?

Can you believe we’re already well and truly into spring skiing season? It seems like only yesterday we were dusting the cobwebs off our boards, scraping off the layers of storage wax and putting our bank accounts into a deficit after the pre-season apparel/lift-pass ‘1,2 knockout’ combo. Although before you start to worry about the […]

Winter 24/25 Staff Gear Picks: Winter 2024/25’s Hottest Sellers

When you think about the most stylish member in your family, why do you immediately think of your grandparents? Because they’ve got a lifetime of experience! And while we don’t quite have any senior citizens (or oji-san and oba-chan, as they are referred to in Japan) manning our shop-floors, we like to think that the […]

Rails and Rad Vibes: The Rhythm Rail Jam 2025 Official Recap

This Year There Were No Holds Barred… Bigger, better and harder than ever before, The Rhythm Rail Jam was back, and undeniably, in its biggest form to date. 4,000 punters, 50 of Japan’s mountain resort’s best riders, some of the region’s best food trucks and entertainers – it was MASSIVE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3It46crysUQ The Hirafu Invasion It […]

Tips From The Team: Park Tips To Help You Full Send It This March

Finally, it’s time to put all your bulky outerwear in storage and bust out the outer shells and hoodies – it’s park season, baby! Let’s send it! In saying that, we know that only 50% of riders are immediately excited when slushy park laps are mentioned, the rest – horrified. Riding park can be super […]

Keep Crushin’ It: Where Our Leading Ladies Love To Shred

Coming from all walks of life, countless different countries, and of course, most of the world’s best mountain resorts, the Rhythm Japan crew help keep Japan’s mountain spirit alive each and every day, both on the slopes and in-store. From taking the sport to new heights, inspiring others, and being leaders in the workplace, Rhythm […]

Winter 24/25 Staff Gear Picks: Epic Picks for Epic Women

If you’ve ever spent time skiing or snowboarding, you’ll know that some of the biggest shredders out on the mountain are undoubtedly the girls. Whether  smashing the backcountry, slashing up some park laps or riding switch down the groomers, you’ll always be within eye-shot of one of JaPow’s leading ladies absolutely tearing up the slopes. […]

Everything You Need To Know About Touring Niseko’s Backcountry

Ready To Try Guiding in Niseko? If you think about the best beach you’ve ever been to, the best hiking trail you’ve ever trekked, or the funnest time you’ve ever had visiting a skatepark, there was probably one thing in common about all of those experiences – they were all at secluded spots that you […]

Winter 24/25 Staff Gear Picks: Steezy Spring Fits

It’s only two weeks away from March – you know what that means? It’s park season, baby! Time to whip out our warm fits, charge up the JBL speakers and head out with your best buds for some bluebird park laps. Something that Rhythm Wadano’s Diego Guevara knows all too well. When he’s not hustling […]

Niseko’s Best Nightlife Spots

Is a snow holiday even a snow holiday without après? Not really – it’s just physical exercise in sub-zero temperatures – where’s the fun in that! Japan is amazing country across all facets, and while they offer up some of the best pow in the world, the region is also known for offering up specialist […]

How to get to Japow

Let’s be honest here, The Proclaimers may be happy to walk 500 miles, but most of us are not (unless we’re touring, of course). So when you touch down to Narita, Haneda or New Chitose Airport and you’re trying to find the best way to get to JaPow’s mountain ranges, we don’t expect you to […]

Exploring Hokkaido’s Hidden Gems: A Day In Kiroro

You wouldn’t eat the same meal every single day all-winter-long, so why just stick to the one resort? When you’re visiting Japan for your first ever JaPow holiday, you’ll find that all around Hokkaido, in particular the surrounding areas near Niseko, there are countless resorts with lesser known names, minimal crowds and double the pow. […]