Waiting for Winter, Welcoming Summer

The snow is almost gone. Just a few delicate streaks cling to the top of Mt. Yotei—like brushstrokes on a canvas slowly being erased by time.

In this week’s photo, we see Niseko’s landscape shifting. The fields below are waking up in every shade of green, and the air is thick with the quiet hum of early summer. The snow that once blanketed everything in silence is now only a memory… and a promise.

Standing here, you can smell the earth again—damp, fertile, full of life. You can hear the soft rustle of trees in the breeze and the distant call of birds returning. It’s the season of planting, of waiting, of watching things grow.

Locals know this rhythm well. As one season closes, another begins to build beneath our feet. We say goodbye to the snow with gratitude. And quietly, we begin to wish—not just for sunlit summer days, but for the snow to return again next winter, deep and abundant.

This is the pause between two worlds. Niseko in June.

See you next week with another sensory moment from the heart of Hokkaido.

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