A Chalet in the Pines, Goryu
Goryu, Hakuba, Japan
Why We Selected It
Hakuba rewards position, and Goryu is the practical end of the valley: close enough to the lifts to walk, far enough to be quiet. This chalet was built in 2020 and kept in beautiful order — a deep covered veranda on black timber posts, warm wood floors, and a plan that runs clean across both floors. It arrives furnished and let-ready, so a new owner can hold it as a family base and let it into the Hakuba rental economy from the first season, without a single year of works.
The Home
Fully furnished two-storey chalet built in 2020, with covered parking, in the quiet lanes of Goryu · Turnkey — built in 2020 and sold furnished throughout, ready to move in or to let from the first week
A fully furnished chalet built in 2020 — 144 m² over two floors, two bedrooms, two bathrooms and covered parking, a ten-minute walk from the lifts of Hakuba Goryu.
- A two-storey chalet of about 144 m² (1,550 sq ft) built in 2020, with a deep covered veranda on black timber posts across the front.
- The ground floor runs open: a kitchen with dark cabinetry and a full cooking wall, a dining table for six, and a long corner sofa beside the sliding doors to the veranda.
- The main bedroom takes a full wall of wood panelling with concealed lighting behind it, and two beds sit before the window; a further tatami room with shoji and blue-flowered wallpaper gives the house its Japanese register.
- Two tiled bathrooms — one with a deep soaking tub and window over the garden, one with a vanity and laundry tower — keep the house running for two parties at once.
- Warm wood ceilings and exposed beams upstairs, light timber floors throughout, and built-in storage in every room.
- A covered parking space and a maintenance-free exterior complete the plan; the whole house is sold furnished, from the sofas to the tableware.
Life Here
The mountain
Hakuba Goryu Snow Resort sits a ten-minute walk away — its lifts climb toward Iimori, with Hakuba 47's long fall-line runs next door. The valley carried the alpine and ski-jump events of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
The valley
Hakuba village gathers good bakeries, breweries and izakaya for a town of its size, and the onsen — Himekawa and the like — sit wherever the valley lets off steam.
From Tokyo
The Hokuriku Shinkansen reaches Nagano in about an hour and a half, and the bus through Hakuba village takes another seventy-five minutes; a long weekend is an ordinary habit here.
The seasons
Skiing from December into April; the green season brings mountain biking, hiking on the Karamatsu trails and firefly evenings on the Himekawa, which keeps the rental calendar from emptying.
Our Perspective
Why it works
A 2020-built, fully furnished chalet minutes from the lifts of Goryu at €282,000 — an entry point into Hakuba's most liquid mountain market without a construction project, a furnishing budget or a management build-out.
Ownership case
Position drives value in Hakuba more than the valley's name does: ski access, elevation and outlook set the price. A turnkey chalet in a quiet lane lets a rental operator start earning in the first winter and holds resale value precisely because nothing about it needs doing.
What makes it special
The covered veranda with its black timber framing is the house's signature — tea in the snow-shadow of the mountain, or breakfast under the veranda with summer rain on the valley floor.
Best suited for
A family seeking an alpine base that works from the day of purchase, a couple splitting time between Japan and home, or an investor wanting a furnished, let-ready unit in Hakuba's deepest rental pool.
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