None, or very little night life. Far from train station, in/out to nearby city is by bus, forgot already if hourly or twice hourly. Not so much food variety, konbini is small. Other than that, okay la. Lots of onsen/sento, some need schedule to go, others just open, no need to pay.

Nagano...Hakuba among the best ski and snowboard place.

http://www.happo-one.jp/english/

You also can try Dynaland Ski and Resort..its located at Gifu...if you take flight from Malaysia..need landed at Nagoya..then catch bus or train to this rsort..

http://www.dynaland.co.jp/

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Like eidrag said, it's a very quiet town. Slopes are typically not crowded, hardly any queues at the ski lifts. Nozawa Onsen also normally gets huge dumps of snow, but too bad the year I went was a "dry" year so some of the slopes on wrong sides of mountains tended to be patchy / icy.