Grand Hirafu Bike Park: NAMBA's Resort Expansion

Operational

Expanding Niseko's Largest Resort Village

NAMBA works with Grand Hirafu on the bike park expansion: trail design, signage, and trail building at Niseko's largest resort village. In time, these trails will link into the wider regional network.

Growth Timeline

2023

Tokyu builds the first flow trail

Tokyu starts building a new top-to-bottom flow trail. After Twin Peaks opens at the end of 2023, Tokyu invites NAMBA to collaborate on future trail building at the resort.

2024

Bike Park opens · NAMBA takes over

Grand Hirafu Bike Park reopens after its COVID hiatus with the Tokyu-built flow trail and full gondola access. NAMBA starts pushing connector trails (Kings High, Key Path) toward Twin Peaks.

2025

Kaikan Rebuild · Bruni and Vink at the table

NAMBA reworks the lower trail (Kaikan) into a friendlier ride for beginners. Pitches a flagship project for Grand Hirafu and brings Loic Bruni and Nico Vink over to help plan it. Prep work starts for the resort's switch to the new Ace Gondola.

2026

Linking to the Ace Gondola

As operations switch to the new gondola, the trails need to link up too. A new 2km blue runs from the end of Kuro Obi across to the new base, built to match the Ace Gondola layout.

Working with Tokyu

Tokyu built their first flow trail at Grand Hirafu in 2023, opening it to the public in 2024 when the bike park reopened. After watching Twin Peaks open at the end of 2023, they invited NAMBA in to collaborate on future trail design, building, and signage. Grand Hirafu became the second resort to plug into the regional masterplan.