However, the opening of the ski slope came shortly after the end of the Japanese asset price bubble, and original estimates soon proved too optimistic, with the number of visitors dropping from one million in the first year to 700,000 in the second.
The opening of the ski slope took place shortly after the collapse of Japan's asset market bubble, and the initial predictions proved overly ambitious, leading to a sharp drop in visitor numbers from one million in the first year to 700,000 in the second.