
Welcome to Yubokumin since 1987 ( Translated by Hiromi and
Todd )
If you have any questions also include these but please read our home page
first.
Information, including access to Niseko, etc., should see the website of the
Niseko Promotion Board.
http://www.nisekotourism.com/en/
They came from
Australia
http://jesstravelbug.blogspot.com/2011/02/northward-bound-niseko-and-sapporo.html
http://vfowler.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
They came from Hong
Kong
http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/22913/South-Korea-Japan-Winter-Trip-10
They came from Taiwan
http://blog.yam.com/escape/article/9013486
.<About Accommodation>
Yubokumin is a family owned
Japanese backpackers guesthouse (Youth hostel style)only 5 minutes walk to the
ski lifts at Niseko Hirafu.
Yubokumin means Nomad in Japanese.
It's got Dormitory style room
with home style cooking.
We respect environment and try to
run Yubokumin in a green way by conserving energy and recycling etc it's our
little way of giving
our children a bright future.
Yubokumin is owned and operated by
Kuni and his wife Michiko and 2 sons Yu and Sora. They are all very keen skiers
very well traveled
and English can be spoken a
little.
And like to welcome Westerners and
Japanese alike. Kuni also sometime snow boards and is a very keen motor bike
rider
Yubokumin is 11( +3 extra ) people
housed in 3 bedrooms. ( room Tibet 4+1 room Kazakh 4+1 room Andes 3+1 )
Each room has bunk bed and
Futons(Japanese bed) . Rooms don't have Bath and TV and chair. We make only for sleep
We can accommodate male and
females in separate rooms.
SORA 360
<Prices>
Price per person per night
including breakfast and dinner:
Adult
\5000
Children under 12
\4500
Price per person per night No Food
included:
We
don't have kitchen for guest
Adult \3500
under 24 \3000
( Excepting
18/Dec.-28/Feb.)
under 24
\2500 ( in Mar. Jun.-Oct.)
Children under 12 \3000
Kids ( 3-6 )
\2000
breakfast \500 dinner \1000
People staying 10 nights or more
\300 discount ( Excepting 23/Dec.-10/Jan. and
under 24 in Mar.
Jun.-Oct.)
Private
room is \5500 with dinner and breakfast
Private
room is \4000 without meals
( For groups of 2 people or more. Excepting busy season)
<Payments>
Unfortunately we do not except
credit card or travelers checks.
Cash can be withdraw from ATM on
the arrival at Chitose airport or at the post office in Kutchan 8 Km away form
Yubokumin
Kuni and Yu
<Booking>
Please make booking by Email with
the following information
Name and
Nationality.
Arrival and Departure
date and time,
How many male how many female.
When do you arrive to Hokkaido or Chitose airport?
(There are a lot of cancellations of the Chitose airport because of the snow.)
About meals ( It is possible to decide it the day
before.)
We can not make dinner about first day because traffic is sometime late
But you can eat if you arrive before noon.
Dormitory or private room (Private room is excepting busy
season)
Deposit is necessary
for the reservation.
The cancellation 4 weeks
ago repays the full amount.
Deposit is 1000yen / per person and per day +commission
for remittance
After I complete
your reservation, the claim mail of deposit is sent from PAYPAL.
The reservation is canceled if not remitted within 48 hours.
<Cancellation>
It is a full amount on that day.
Cancel charge money \1000 until
the day before for 4 weeks
As we are a small business and
space is of a premium.
We would really appreciate as much
notice as possible if cancellation should occur.
Yubokumin closes a couple times a
year depending upon conditions.
In general we are closed between beginning of Oct to end of Nov and beginning of
May to the end of June.
Other times we sometimes travel so
please check by phone or email.
Sora
720 and Michiko
<Contact Details >
Tel: +81 136 22 2281
e-mail yubokumin@nifty.com A e-mail reply
becomes late because I am going to Thailand till November 30
E-male doesn't occasionally reach. Please send it again if
there is no reply even if it waits for several days.
Address: 167 Yamada Kutchan-cho
Hokkaido Japan
< How to get to Yubokumin>
By car or bike: Take Hwy No.5 or
Hwy 66 to route 343 and turn into Hirafu Ski area. Turn left at Seiko mart
Yubokumin is about 200
meter on the left.
By train: Catch train from Chitose
airport to Sapporo and then
Kutchan JR station then take a bus to Hirafu Intersection bus stop (.Near
Seicomart)
(It is not Niseko JR station or Hirafu JR station.) It walks from the bus stop
and about 5 minutes.
By bus: in wintertime there is a
direct bus service from Chitose airport and Sapporo railway JR station to the
Hirafu Welcome Center bus stop.
It walks from the bus stop and about 15 minutes.
Check in 15:00 ( If you arrive
before 15:00 or after 10:00. We can keep your luggage )
Check out 10:00

<Meal>
Kuni's wife Michiko cooks with
love using traditional home style ingredients.
We can't make dinner and breakfast for once a week by rest,
We can't make dinner and breakfast for vegetarian
(Dinner on December 30 will take a
rest for the special New Year's food preparation on the New Year's Eve. )
We can't make dinner about first day because traffic is sometime late
But you can eat if you arrive
before noon.
Dinner starts at 18:00 so please try
to be back home by 17:30 and let us know if you are going to be late as we like
to serve the meals
hot. Dinner is mainly Western
style and Michiko changes a menu daily with over 20 different menus.
Breakfast is Japanese style. Breakfast is from 8:00.
Please do not eat it is not
possible to get up at 8:00.
<Resort Information>
5 minutes walk to the lifts and
open from 8:30 to 20:30.
We have discount lift tickets
available on the arrival.
We also have information about
powder and back country tours.
2 sons in our family Yu and Sora
can give you tips about best place for Mogul skiing.
We can teach skiing.(¥5000/2hours)
We can organize ski and board
rentals on arrival.(\1000〜\2500/per day)
skiwear(\500/per day)
But We can't reserve for ski and
board rentals.
<Other>
Laundry Service \300 per load
including washing powder.
Skies, board and luggage can be
sent in advance by carriers and we will look after them.
It is whole building no
smoking.
People are invited to get together
for a drink a chat or a video after dinner between 21:.30 to 23:30. It's BYO.
Yubokumin also sells beer, wine and Japanese spirit.
<Summer time>
Niseko is also great in summer
with river rafting , hot springs and mountain biking, climb Mt. Yotei just to
name a few of many activities
available.
There is also superb motor cycle
riding and Yubokumin doubles as a rider house outside of winter.
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