nozawa onsen skiing

Ohayou Gozaimasu to your Sunday Snow fix from Nozawa Onsen Archives This clip from a “December to Remember” when we got smashed with heavy Snowfalls very early in the season  Who can guess the year? This clip was around December 18th and the base was already at 270cm up top. We received a Meter and a Half of snow in this dump.  It was almost too much snow, a crazy thing to say so early in the season.  So in just 2 months we could be back on the Snow Globe, will it be an early gift from the Snow Gods again? Time will tell… We look forward to welcoming you either way. If want to check out the reports […]

Stay the Ski Season Nozawa Japan Long Term Rentals in Nozawa Onsen are very hard to come by, so great that this unique house has come up for rent for the whole season. Great outlook and near to the Karasawa lifts it is a place you can make many  memories of spending a ski season in Japan. You need to rent it for the whole ski season which goes from early December up to May 6th and the cost for the season is 2,500,000 Yen so about 500,000 Yen a month which compared to most holiday lettings is a great deal if you can spend a whole season. Think how good your Skiing and Japanese will become! Click here for more details and drop […]

Fly to Japan Return for Free! Great for our Aussie guests, Jetstar Sale just launched and always a pretty good one. Buy an outbound fare and get Return Flight Free on the selected flights. Looks like most ports in Australia coming back. For your return flight, search for flights between the following dates: From Tokyo (Narita) via Cairns – 31 March to 8 April, 6 May to 2 July and 28 August to 15 September 2020. From Tokyo (Narita) via Gold Coast – 15 March to 9 April, 6 May to 29 June and 28 August to 24 September 2020. From Osaka (Kansai) via Cairns – 28 January to 19 March, 6 May to 1 July and 28 August to […]

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

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 […]

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   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 […]