Set among mature forest on the quieter Annupuri side of Niseko, Niseko Annupuri Residences is a private, master-planned estate of individually designed villas and unusually large residential lots — a place for year-round life in the mountains, whether you come to stay or to build.

Much of what makes Annupuri worth knowing is close at hand. Rakuichi, the acclaimed soba restaurant, is a few minutes on foot, and Ichiseko's café, bar and izakaya is close by. Yugokorotei Onsen, one of the area's best-known hot springs, is next door. Niseko Distillery is a short drive, as are the Annupuri and Moiwa lifts, with new gondolas planned for both Annupuri and Niseko Village, and Aman Niseko now under construction in neighboring Moiwa.

Stay

Our villas are made for time together. Each is individually designed — five bedrooms sleeping ten or more, generous living and dining rooms, and a kitchen built for cooking for a full house. Wood-burning fireplaces, indoor jacuzzis looking into the trees and floor-to-ceiling glass bring the forest inside. Outside, wide decks, barbecues, fire pits and room to spread out. Winter brings the powder Niseko is known for. The green season brings hiking, mountain biking and golf, and Hokkaido's cool evenings — long ones, made for eating outdoors.

Own

Lots here run from around 1,550 m² to more than 4,500 m², with most close to 2,000 m² — several times the size of a typical Niseko building plot, including at the better-known developments. That difference is what you see on arrival: a substantial house with a proper garden around it, room for a fire pit and outdoor living, and neighbors you seldom notice.

The scale is protected, not incidental. Each lot carries a capped construction footprint, and several include designated forest preserve where nothing may be built at all. The estate was planned as seventeen homes across nearly four hectares and will never be more.

Every lot is relatively flat and ready to build, with infrastructure uncommon here — a paved private road, municipal water rather than a well, and underground power and fiber, so nothing interrupts the pine, birch and larch. A stream runs along the eastern boundary. We can manage the build from architect to handover, and run the finished house as a rental when you're not in it.

Looked after

Our management office is on the estate, not in the village — which is why the practical things stay simple. Housekeeping and maintenance year-round. Dining brought to the villa on the evenings you'd rather not cook. A massage therapist who comes to you. Transport to the lifts and back. And for owners, the same care when the house is empty as when it isn't.

Close to the mountains, restaurants and onsens, yet apart from Niseko's busier centers — whether you come to stay or make Annupuri a place of your own.