{"id":21741,"date":"2011-12-09T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/new-era-new-gondola-for-niseko-3\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T07:11:00","slug":"new-era-new-gondola-for-niseko-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/12\/new-era-new-gondola-for-niseko-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New era, new gondola for Niseko"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wqygboQbO88\/TuG_nei3pnI\/AAAAAAAAR_k\/H4uPDyK7G2I\/s1600\/gondola.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wqygboQbO88\/TuG_nei3pnI\/AAAAAAAAR_k\/H4uPDyK7G2I\/s400\/gondola.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Niseko-based Peter Murphy Managing Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/skijapan.com\/\">SkiJapan.com<\/a> is very excited about the reopening of the resort&#8217;s gondola this weekend.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new -eight seat Grand Hirafu Gondola has the double capacity and twice as fast as the original gondola it has replaced. This will provide a quicker and more comfortable ride, it will reduce morning bottlenecks and it offers quicker access, particularly on powder days, to ski or board iconic runs.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hirafu Gondola is the first new lift to be built at Niseko. It replaces a slower, four-speed gondola and the new cabins will provide sensational views of Mt Annupuri, the Mt Fuji-looking Mt Yotei and the ski town of Hirafu. <\/p>\n<p>This is definitely the start of a new era for what was once the domain of the powderhounds but now entices Australian families and lots of first-timers from other, nearby countries such as China, Singapore and Hong Kong.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Niseko is becoming more family-friendly after the powder boom a decade ago when the powderhounds put Niseko on the map,&#8221; said Anthony Trovatello a key member of <a href=\"http:\/\/skijapan.com\/\">SkiJapan.com<\/a>&#8216;s team based in Niseko. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a special energy right now. A lot of people here are dedicated and want to support Japan. It is the best start to winter I&#8217;ve seen in the four years I&#8217;ve been here. The amount of snow and the snow quality is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For regular up-to-date Niseko snow reports check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skijapan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.SkiJapan.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niseko-based Peter Murphy Managing Director of SkiJapan.com is very excited about the reopening of the resort&#8217;s gondola this weekend. &#8220;The new -eight seat Grand Hirafu Gondola has the double capacity and twice as fast as the original gondola it has replaced. This will provide a quicker and more comfortable ride, it will reduce morning bottlenecks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}