Latest News from Nozawa Onsen

Base up top: 380 cm        Temperature; -5 Degrees Base at bottom; 235 cm New Snow: 15 cm               Weather; Bluebird Pretty insane conditions in Nozawa at the moment with another decent dump overnight and blue skies today. Life does not get much better! We stumbled home from the Nakao concert last night and the snow was falling gracefully from the sky. Was beautiful with all the candles in the snow and the sake buzz added to the affect! Woke up to a decent driveway clear and over boot deep powder on the slopes with zero crowds. The base is back up to near the 4-meter mark and conditions are sublime. Like […]

Base up top: 370 cm        Temperature; -1 Degrees Base at bottom; 235 cm New Snow: 0 cm               Weather; Sunny Stunning start to the day here in Nozawa and nice cold air when sat outside for a cup of tea this morning. Fairly blue skies with a bit of scattered cloud and the mercury is slowly rising with the sunshine. Snow conditions still excellent with the fresh from the previous day. Yesterday was amazing up there with the foot of fresh over the whole resort and it snowed for a good part of the morning. Everyone was beaming when they tumbled down the hill late yesterday. There is a bit of […]

Base up top: 380 cm        Temperature; -6 Degrees Base at bottom; 245 cm New Snow: 25 cm               Weather; Snowing The Snow Gods have blessed us again in Nozawa with a nice foot of fresh being delivered overnight. We were expecting a fair bit up top but it has fallen in the Village too and coated everything in a crisp blanket of white. Doesn’t matter how many times you see it a good fall of fresh snow is always magic. It is going to be pretty awesome today and one happy soul has already raced down late for his train but ecstatic about the knee-deep powder up top!  Will be a […]

Base up top: 360 cm        Temperature; +3 Degrees Base at bottom; 225 cm New Snow: 0 cm               Weather; Overcast Pretty overcast start to the day here in Nozawa with nothing falling from the sky at present. The winds have died and the Nagasaka Gondola and all lifts are back up and operational. The rain yesterday did not do the base any favours and it was a pretty warm day. Almost didn’t need the Jacket at the Festival last night. Was a good night and quite a few people lined the main street for the festivities. Oyu Dori was closed to cars, which is always good to see. Would be nice […]

Base up top: 385 cm        Temperature; +2 Degrees Base at bottom; 230 cm New Snow: 0 cm               Weather; Not great If you decided to start celebrating St Patrick’s day early and had one or two too many last night and can’t get out of bed then maybe was not a bad decision. Today’s conditions probably best viewed by the fire with a warming glass of Whisky! After such a stellar week was always going to be a bit of a downer to cop some rain as was forecast for today. On top of that we have some strong winds so a lot of the upper mountain including the Nagasaka Gondola […]

Base up top: 390 cm        Temperature; 0 Degrees Base at bottom; 240 cm New Snow: 2 cm               Weather; Beautiful Almost need to pinch ourselves at the moment with another perfect day in Nozawa. Sun is shining thru and with the snow we got yesterday we should be in for a great day on the slopes. No wind and no crowds so the lucky few up there are going to be styling. Hope they have their sunglasses and sunscreen! We are past mid March now and still have almost a 4-meter base up top and 2.5 Meter down the bottom. Still have great top to bottom skiing over the whole resort. […]

Base up top: 390 cm        Temperature; -11 Degrees Base at bottom; 245 cm New Snow: 0 cm               Weather; Beautiful Woke up to some big flakes falling from the sky in the village this morning. It dropped some snow pretty quick but did not last long. Still should give us a bit of a top up on the slopes. Yesterday was the day though with deep blue skies, no wind and still plenty of fresh left over from the day before. It was great conditions both on and off piste and everyone was having a ball. Heard the familiar call that have heard all season with a number of people saying […]

Base up top: 390 cm        Temperature; -11 Degrees Base at bottom; 245 cm New Snow: 0 cm               Weather; Beautiful Another gorgeous start to the day here in Nozawa. Not a cloud in the sky and wind also pretty non-existent. Cold temps up top to start the day at -11 degrees but it will warm up pretty quickly with all this glorious sunshine. Yesterday was an unbelievable day on the Mountain with a foot of fresh, sunshine in the morning and more snow falling throughout the day. There were fresh tracks for the taking all day. There are a bunch of guys here for a month, the whole month of March […]

Base up top: 390 cm           Temperature; -6 Degrees Base at bottom; 260 cm New Snow: 25 cm               Weather; Beautiful Absolutely stunning day in Nozawa today so really glad I did not have that extra beer or two last night! We have had the Magic Foot of snow bless us overnight with 30cm falling. The sun is out and the strong winds of yesterday have all but disappeared. It is going to be nothing short of epic today on the mountain. Can almost count the number of overseas guests in town on both hands and a few toes and being a week day there are not many Tokyoites either, […]

Base up top: 385 cm           Temperature; -6 Degrees Base at bottom; 235 cm New Snow: 20 cm               Weather; Blizzard Winter has made a definite comeback in Nozawa today with Blizzard type conditions across the resort. Has been snowing pretty heavy all-day and coupled with high winds has meant some nice fresh but pretty low visibility. Have had at least 20cm of fresh fall up high and even needed to clear the driveway at lunchtime. Kind of knew this was coming as I just put the shovels away a few days back! Big contrast to yesterday’s sunny skies and low winds but most welcome and the base has been […]