Winter is Coming to Nozawa Onsen Japan Trimming the trails in Nozawa! Always an exciting time of year when they turn the Snow Groomers into giant lawn mowers and start to prepare the slopes for Winter. A huge job with a total slope area of 297 Hectares it will take a few days 🙂 So start getting excited as we could be riding those slopes in as little as 2 months time. If have not already booked better jump on it still lots of availability for early season and other times. Look and book lots of great properties here; https://www.nozawaholidays.com/properties/ Photo by Seiji san Arigatiou Gozaimasu
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Add Kanazawa to Your Nozawa Visit
Add Kanazawa to Your Nozawa Visit If you’re looking for a side trip during your time in Japan, Kanazawa is a fantastic choice! You can easily add Kanazawa to your Nozawa visit, either before or after your time in Nozawa. Kanazawa is the capital of Ishikawa prefecture and located two hours from Nozawa on the west coast of Japan. It is a culturally rich city known for its well preserved historical districts, fresh food markets, traditional art and crafts, castles, stunning gardens and more. History, Crafts and Significance in Kanazawa Kanazawa was relatively spared from the devastation of World War II. As a result many of the old parts of town have been preserved. Must-visits are the Nagamachi Samurai […]
Nozawa Child Care and Baby Sitting
If you’ve got little ones coming with you on your snow holiday then finding a ski resort that can offer quality child care is important! Luckily Nozawa child care has a few options for your kids. There’s day care, private baby sitting and ski lessons. Yumin Child Care – Day Care Centre Right on the hill at the Hikage Ski Centre is the Yumin Day Care facilities for 1-6 year olds. This is a Japanese run centre with some English speaking staff and well qualified carers. You can the Yumin Day Care centre on the second floor of the Hikage Information Centre. Get there by heading up the Yu road from town or by catching the free sled transport […]
Film Festival Nozawa Onsen Japan
Film Festival Nozawa Onsen Japan The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is coming to Nozawa Onsen The Banff Mountain Film Festival is the most prestigious international film competition and an annual presentation of short films and documentaries about mountain culture, sports, and environment. It was launched in 1976 as The Banff Festival of Mountain Films by The Banff Centre and is held every October in Banff, Canada. Approximately 375 films are entered into the film festival annually, and the top 80 films are selected by a pre-screening committee to be shown at the week-long festival in Canada. From this selection a program of over 2 hours of thought-provoking films, with subject matter ranging from remote landscapes and cultures to adrenaline-packed […]
Ready for Winter Nozawa Onsen Japan
Ready for Winter Nozawa Onsen Japan Ready for a Cool Change! With temperatures in the village of Nozawa Onsen reaching over 30 degrees celsius at the moment we are already looking forward to the Snowy days like this ahead. This video was early January last season and it seemed like the heavy snow would never stop. Hard to imagine that it will be -10 degrees soon so a 40 degree plus difference from right now in Nozawa! As in winter it is cooler up top at Yamabiko almost 10 degrees cooler depending on the weather. Generally speaking 100 meters of increase in elevation can drop the temperature by 1 degree. So mathematically speaking with over 1000m vertical change between top […]
New Gondola Nozawa Onsen Japan
New Gondola Nozawa Onsen Japan The New Gondola Nozawa Onsen Japan, In the Bubble era in Japan there were over 600 Ski Resorts scattered across the country. Large ones, small ones and plenty of in between ones! Skiing was booming across the land and so was the Japanese Economy. The Royal Family was skiing all the time and so were the average families and all the resorts were very busy, including Nozawa Onsen. I was working in Ski Patrol in the early 90’s and some afternoons coming down Skykline Run it was standing room only and we were dealing with as many as 50 injuries a day not to mention the many we had to help slide down the […]
Snoga Yoga Retreat Nozawa Onsen Japan
Snoga Yoga Retreat Nozawa Onsen Japan Retreat Yourself with a relaxing Yoga Retreat in Nozawa Onsen Japan Japan has been on the international stage as a ski destination for a few years now and the Snow and Cultural experience keep pulling people back. We also run Yoga retreats during Summer and have had a call to do one in the Winter months too so people can enjoy the skiing and snowboarding too! . Starting April 7th for 3 or 5 or 7 days, a perfect way to combine yoga and your passion for the mountains of Japan. A beautiful traditional mountain town makes for the perfect yoga destination and lots of other fun outdoor activities to enjoy. […]
Rainy Season Nozawa Onsen Japan
Rainy Season Nozawa Onsen Japan “Rainy” Rainy Season in Japan This year in Nozawa and across many parts of Japan we have seen a bit more wet weather than normal and cooler temperatures. Especially compared to the hot summer last year when the highest temperature ever recorded was hit at 41.1 degrees in Saitama. The cause of the cooler, rainy weather is an anticyclone in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the eastern seaboard of Russia, that has been pushing cold and humid air south across Japan. Japan is hit by a rainy season between late June and early July that has usually finished by now, but looks like still a bit of rain to come. The weather is affecting […]
Nagano Local Snowboarder – Nozawa Onsen
Nagano Local Snowboarder – Nozawa Onsen Ikigai means ” Reason for Being” here is a great little clip about Nagano local Snowboarder Shin Biyajima. He hooks up with Travis Rice and they explore his backyard including Nozawa Onsen. A great look at Japanese Mountain culture and a nice way to spend your Sunday! Nozawa Onsen has a long Alpine Ski History actually the oldest Ski Resort in Japan and people have been trying skiing here for over 100 Years. Over that then the village has produced many Olympic Champions, more than any other town in Japan! Snowboarding however did not get such an easy start in Nozawa and was actually banned in the early years. Probably not the best Marketing […]
Shirakawago Magic Village Japan
Serious Snowfall at Shirakawago Shirakawago is a unique little mountain village nestled along the Shogawa river valley that borders Gifu and Toyama prefectures. It became a Unesco World Heritage site in 1995 and is becoming well known for the beautiful traditional “Gassho-Zukuri Farmhouses in the village some of which are more than 250 Years old. The houses are a unique architectural style developed over generations and designed to withstand the heavy snow the region experiences over Winter. Days like this photo when the whole sky seems to be full of huge flakes. If you are looking to travel on from Nozawa it makes a great stop over between Kanazawa and Takayama. A beautiful destination all year round to experience the […]