Planning to come to Japan during Christmas time, from 24-28December. We are coming from Hong Kong and both of us haven’t ever seen snow. So we are considering options where we can experience snow/ snowfall and have a snowy Christmas experience. We were thinking Hokkaido because majority on Reddit suggest that. Tickets are crazy expensive to Hokkaido direct. So anyway wherever we plan to go further, we first land in Tokyo. I saw zao onsen and Nagano as an option. Prefer nagano more, since it’s closer to Tokyo. However we want to stay in one region and explore that region only. Can you please help us to suggest what would be a good place for us? If you can help suggest any other place apart from what I suggested would also be great. We have been to Japan only once before, Tokyo in Aug 25.
Also is Yamagata as a whole a good option? I mean it will include zao onsen. Because we are not skiers. Please share your opinion on what absolutely would be the best place for us to visit.
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