{"id":1792,"date":"2025-03-30T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T06:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:59:33","slug":"dec-2025-king-quad-lift-3-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/en\/news\/1792\/","title":{"rendered":"King Lift #3 Reopens as Six-Pack Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/grand-hirafu-jp.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0085-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10606\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December 2025, King Quad Lift #3 will be reborn as a 6-seater high-speed lift.<br>The Ace Gondola, which will make its debut in November 2024, is expected to further increase the number of guests coming to the mid-piste area, and the lift will be replaced to further increase its transportation capacity, aiming to reduce congestion and improve guest satisfaction.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three Benefits for Guests<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Up to 600 more passengers per hour from current capacity by changing from 4-seater to 6-seater<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First heated seat in the Niseko Tokyu Grand HIRAFU chairlift<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Safe design for children and beginners with loading carpet at lift stations<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note that we will be open until March 31, 2025 for the 2024-2025 winter season, as construction on the King Quad Lift #3 is scheduled to begin next spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/grand-hirafu-jp.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC_0090-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10607\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2025, King Quad Lift #3 will be reborn as a 6-seater high-speed lift.The Ace Gondola, which will make its debut in November 2024, is expected to further increase the number of guests coming to the mid-piste area, and the lift will be replaced to further increase its transportation capacity, aiming to reduce congestion and improve guest satisfaction. Three Benefits for Guests Note that we will be open until March 31, 2025 for the 2024-2025 winter season, as construction on the King Quad Lift #3 is scheduled to begin next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/?p=1788","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"seasons":[6],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","seasons-winter","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10636,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/10636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"seasons","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grand-hirafu.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seasons?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}