Hakuba published its 2026–27 lift prices in high summer — a gift to planners, and a trap for anyone reading last year's blogs. The headline: the All-Mountain Day Pass covers 10 resorts at ¥11,100, and the multi-day versions don't require consecutive days — a 3-day pass lives inside a 6-day window, the 7-day inside 12. Below: the full official table, the single-resort math (and which resorts are still showing last season's prices), the age-band chaos, and the Epic Pass benefit with its shuttle-starts-the-clock catch.
Hakuba Valley All-Mountain Pass: official 2026–27 prices
| Pass | Adult (13+) | Child (6–12) | Valid within |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | ¥11,100 | ¥6,400 | day of use |
| 2 days | ¥21,800 | ¥12,500 | 4 days from first use |
| 3 days | ¥32,200 | ¥18,100 | 6 days |
| 5 days | ¥53,400 | ¥29,700 | 10 days |
| 7 days | ¥74,500 | ¥41,700 | 12 days |
| 10 days | ¥106,100 | ¥58,800 | 16 days |
Valid at all 10 resorts — Happo-one, Goryu, Hakuba 47, Tsugaike, Iwatake, Norikura, Cortina, Sanosaka, Jiigatake and Kashimayari — with same-day resort-hopping officially allowed, under-6s free, and the daytime valley shuttle free on ski days. What the mountain does with your money:
The flexible-days trick: Hakuba's quiet advantage
How do the validity windows actually work?
Each multi-day pass is a bundle of ski days you spend inside a longer window: officially, the 2-day pass has 4 calendar days from first use, the 3-day 6, the 5-day 10, the 7-day 12, the 10-day 16. Blizzard day? Onsen day? The pass doesn't care. Set against Niseko's consecutive-days-only rule (see our Niseko guide), this is the structural argument for Hakuba on any itinerary with rest days, powder-chasing flexibility, or children whose legs negotiate. The arithmetic favors commitment too: at 7 days the per-day cost falls to about ¥10,600 versus ¥11,100 walk-up.
Single-resort tickets: cheaper, with a year-trap
Which prices are actually current?
If your week lives on one mountain, single-resort tickets undercut the valley pass by roughly ¥1,000–3,000 a day — but check which season a price belongs to, because right now the valley is split. Current (2026–27, official): the Goryu & Hakuba 47 shared ticket — one ticket, two linked resorts — at ¥10,000 window (including a refundable ¥500 IC deposit, so effectively ¥9,500), ¥9,500 online, and ¥8,200 online recharge for repeat days. Still last season's tables (2025–26, official): Happo-one — ¥8,700 window / ¥8,400 online-charge / ¥5,500 spring — and Tsugaike — ¥8,200 window / ¥7,200 web, whose famous early-bird (¥5,900) sold in autumn 2025 with no 2026–27 window announced yet. And mind the age-band chaos, straight from the official tables: adult starts at 13 on the valley pass, 18 at Happo, 23 at Goryu/47 — a 20-year-old pays adult on the valley pass, child-adjacent youth rates at Goryu, and full adult at Happo. Price your actual humans, not the headline number.
The Epic Pass benefit — per Hakuba Valley official
What exactly does an Epic Pass unlock here?
Vail's Epic ecosystem plugs into Hakuba on officially generous terms — with fine print that starts clocks. Confirmed for 2026–27 on Hakuba Valley's official Epic page: holders of the full Epic Pass, Epic Local or Epic Australia receive a complimentary 5-consecutive-day valley ticket — all 10 resorts, daytime shuttle included. The catches, all official: the five days are strictly consecutive (no flexible window here), night skiing is excluded, Epic Day Pass and Military Epic don't qualify, and even a shuttle ride counts as your first day — arrive on the bus with your Epic benefit active and the meter is running. Going the other way, Hakuba Valley season-pass holders get 50% off day tickets at Vail-owned resorts. We'd normally cross-check epicpass.com itself, but it served only system errors at our check — hence every fact above is attributed to the Hakuba Valley side of the partnership.
Night skiing, buying online, and the practical order of operations
When and where should I actually buy?
Night skiing is a separate economy: the valley pass and Epic ticket both exclude it, Tsugaike officially canceled night operations last season, and the scene is Goryu's Toomi slopes — 18:00–21:30 in last season's official window (¥6,500 including deposit), with the 2026–27 night price officially "coming soon." Buying: the official valley webshop opens 2026–27 day-pass sales around November (Visa/Mastercard only); no deposit on the valley pass, ¥500 refundable IC deposits on Goryu/47/Kashimayari singles. Order of operations for a smooth trip: rooms first, transport second (see Hakuba from Tokyo — the winter bus timetable is its own waiting game), passes last — they never sell out, and November's webshop opening or a resort early-bird may beat the window price. For what the mountains themselves offer at these prices, our Hakuba ski guide covers the terrain the tickets unlock. And one last sanity check for spreadsheet skiers: the valley pass premium over a single-resort ticket is roughly the cost of one shuttle day plus the freedom to chase the best snow — on a powder week that option is worth more than the difference; on a lesson-focused family week, it usually isn't.
FAQ
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Sources
All-Mountain Day Pass prices, validity windows, age definitions, the 10-resort list, same-day hopping, shuttle inclusion and webshop details (November sales window, card brands, deposit rules): Hakuba Valley's official lift-ticket and webshop pages, 2026–27 tables verified in the raw pages. Goryu & 47 2026–27 shared-ticket prices, age bands, deposits and night-skiing details: the official Goryu/Escal Plaza ticket and night pages. Happo-one and Tsugaike prices (2025–26 tables, explicitly labeled as such here) and Tsugaike's night cancellation and early-bird history: their official ticket pages. Epic Pass eligibility, the 5-consecutive-day benefit, exclusions, the shuttle-counts-as-day-one rule and the reciprocal 50% Vail discount: Hakuba Valley's official Epic Pass page for the 2026–27 season (epicpass.com itself was unreachable at our check). All read on August 12, 2026. The embedded video is by its creator.
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