Food & Nightlife
Tomamu RestaurantsThere is a good selection of restaurants in Tomamu resort ranging from traditional Japanese to French-Italian fusion. Many of the restaurants are buffets of exceptional quality, so you'll need to prepare to put on a few kilos whilst at Tomamu. Alternatively you'll have to ski or board really, really hard to work off the calories. The food is too irresistible to knock back, so this is not a place for those with low will-power.
If you are into sashimi, the Nininupuri restaurant is a great place to
over-indulge. For about 3000 yen, you could eat as much as you want as
well as a HUGE selection of Western food and other Japanese delicacies.
The restaurant at Villa Sport is also buffet-style and is suited to
casual family dining.
For up-market diners, there is a very nice silver-service restaurant
called the Sekka located in the Galleria Tower. The food is exquisite
with French/Italian inspired cuisine, the service is impeccable and
there are magnificent views overlooking the flood-lit ski runs. For two
people, it will only cost about 16,000 yen for fabulous Furano wine and
about five courses each. We would highly recommend this as a ‘must do’.
Some of the restaurants go out of business, so some of our favourites
are potentially no longer there. The French Patesserie (Baked Breads)
had Western style breakfasts, there was a great upmarket buffet
restaurant at the wave pool, and a pub (which wasn't really a pub) that
thankfully didn't have buffet food. These may no longer be there, but
another equally interesting establishment will have taken its place.
You'll enjoy experimenting.
And if you get a bit tired of buffets or your waist line is growing too
quickly, you can easily travel to the town of Shintoku which is about a
20 minute train ride from the Tomamu station. You can get the
complimentary shuttle bus from your accommodation to the station to
meet the train. Shintoku is only a small town but it has some very nice
little traditional Japanese restaurants only a few minutes walk from
the station.
Bars and Nightlife Tomamu
Unfortunately this is one of the few drawbacks of Tomamu. There is not a bar anywhere in the resort to have a drink after skiing. The only exception is the ice bar in the ice village, but it is so cold in there that you'll only last one drink.
There are plenty of vending machines throughout the resort so it is easy to get a drink 24x7 however the only place available to gather is back in your room. Take-away drinks from the vending machines or the souvenir shops are far from cheap, so stock up before you arrive.