Mountain Biking in Hakuba and Nagano - Downhill, Free-Ride and Fun-Ride Tours
Hakuba and the surrounding Nagano region are rich in exciting mountain bike trails and offer numerous scenic trails for relaxing rides around mountain lakes and through small villages. In addition, there is a growing professional community of downhill racers, resulting in many new trail building projects, races, and annual events.
Evergreen offers a lot to the Nagano biking community:
- an in-house bike shop offering repairs, custom orders, and rentals
- mountain bike clinics for beginning to advanced riders
- trail building and maintainance in the Nagano region
- custom day or multi-day tours
- transportation
- event/race planning
Downhill & Free Riding
Free Riding is just like the name implies, riding pretty much anything the area has to offer. Technical skill and balance are a prerequisite for this type of riding as we will be practicing narrow structure riding techniques, jumps, drops, steeps, hill climbing and cross-country riding. Shocks are not essential for this type of riding but it sure softens the impact for us mere mortals. The Free-Ride is a full-day tour that covers a huge range of riding techniques as well as a large part of the Hakuba area.On our Downhill tour we load bikes, guides and you into our vans and transport everything to the top of the hills on the Eastern side of Hakuba. Practice riding techniques on top while gazing out at amazing views of the Hakuba mountain range and ride some of Hakuba's single-track downhill on Specialized MTB's.
Time
Free-Ride Full-Day Tour
9:30 ~ 12:00, 14:00 ~ 16:30
Downhill Half-Day Tour
AM tour 9:00 sign in ~ 12:00 finish
PM tour 14:30 sign in ~ 17:00 finish
Location
Meet at our Hakuba office
Cost
Free-Ride Tour
Adults & Children: 9,975 yen
Downhill Tour
Adults & Children: 5,250 yen
High Season Cost (19 July-23 August)
Free-Ride Tour
Adults (13 & over): 11,000 yen
Downhill Tour
Adult (13 & over): 5,750 yen
Age
Freeride from 6 years; Downhill from 10 years
Includes
Mt. bike, helmet, insurance, tax, transport when necessary, trained guides (riding technique, first aid & bicycle repair)
What to Bring
Comfortable clothes, sneakers, gloves (cotton work gloves with rubber grip is OK), rain gear, water, cap, sunscreen.
Level
Intermediate to Advanced
Multi-Day Bike Tours
There is no better way to see the back roads of Nagano. From our centrally located base in Hakuba we can venture out on numerous extended day trips. A moderate level of fitness and desire to seek out the back roads of rural Japan are all that you need. We can create a custom tour plan for your group or you can inquire about or scheduled 3 day tour from Nagano to Hakuba via some amazing cultural and natural areas in Northern Nagano prefecture. Please contact us for further details.
Mountain Bike Clinics
Take your riding to the next level with instruction from professional rider, Karey Watanabe. Contact her for details.
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Mountain Bike Fun Ride
This bike tour is perfect for families or novice to intermediate riders. We ride scenic trails around mountain lakes, weave through alpine trails and show beautiful parts of Hakuba you would otherwise miss.Tour times
AM tour 8:30 sign-in ~ 11:00 finish
PM tour 14:00 sign-in ~ 16:30 finish
Location
Meet at our Hakuba office
Cost
Adults: 4,725 yen
Children 12 & under: 4,200 yen
High Season Cost
(19 July-23 August)
Adults: 5,250 yen
Includes
MTB bike, MTB helmet, insurance, tax, trained guides (riding technique, first-aid, bicycle repair)
What to bring
Comfortable clothes, sneakers, gloves (cotton work gloves with rubber grip is OK), rain gear, water, cap, sunscreen.
Special Offer
Enquire about Mtn. bike back-roads touring weekends and multi-day tours.
