Foreign ski bums turned this Japanese mountain into a real estate nightmare

Australian Broadcasting Corporation // World // Oceania

Foreign ski bums turned this Japanese mountain into a real estate nightmare

Saturday 12th April 2025, 7:14PM

International tourists, especially Australians, started to arrive en masse in the famous Japanese ski resort of Niseko in the early 2000s. Now the influx has pushed the cost of housing so high it's almost impossible for locals to compete with wealthy foreigners for property.

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