Food & Drink
Dinner is the second-best
part of the day.
Skiing this much takes fuel. The kitchen's job is to send you up the mountain full, meet you at the bottom with a cold beer, and put a dinner in front of you that holds its own against the best day of your season.
Morning
Breakfast is built
for first chair.
Coffee is on before the lifts spin, for the early risers and the ones checking the snow stake. Breakfast is cooked and generous — eggs, rice, miso soup, good bread, fruit, and enough of it to ski until lunch without thinking about lunch.
Served until nine. The lift is three minutes away, so nobody has to choose between a second coffee and first tracks.
Après · Namazu 鯰 bar
Après begins when
the boots come off.
The bar keeps the building's former name — Namazu, the giant catfish of local legend. Local beer is on tap, alongside sake from breweries down the valley, a short cocktail list and warm drinks made with yuzu and hōjicha.
Après is open to everyone — guests, and anyone coming off the hill. Then the room turns over to The Table at Konamori, and the evening belongs to the house.
Evening
The Table at Konamori.
Dinner is served at half past six around one long table beneath the timber trusses. Menus begin with fresh ingredients from Nagano and Niigata — mountain vegetables, mushrooms, rice and fish from the Sea of Japan — and move between Japanese and international dishes with the season.
It is generous food for hungry skiers, finished in time for a proper night's sleep.
Take the whole lodge and the table is yours — a private dining room for your group, every night of the week.
- When
- Every night of the season, from half past six.
- Who
- Lodge guests only. Après at the bar is open to everyone.
- How
- Optional — add it when you book your stay, priced per person. Most guests take most nights.
- Menu
- A set menu that changes nightly with the season and the market.
- Dietaries
- Tell us when you book and we will do our best to accommodate.
After dinner
The whisky shelf, a last drink by the fire, or straight to bed — all three are correct. This is a lodge that skis hard in the morning, and the evenings respect that.
A night out
Madarao village and the Myoko onsen towns have good izakaya and ramen for the night you want a change of scene. Reception books it and sorts the ride.
Non-skiers eat well too
Togakushi soba, sake breweries, miso and seven-spice merchants on the Zenkō-ji approach — the region is one of Japan's great eating detours.
Breakfast at seven. First chair at eight thirty. Dinner at half past six.