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SnowJapan.Com SnowJapan 09/10
 
Snow Japan - the independent Japan winter sports guide and online ski & snowboard community. SnowJapan.TV relaunched

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** New for the 09/10 season
New real-time resort weather reporting - report and read the very latest weather conditions from resorts around Japan. Archives for each resort and by day are also available. 23 new detailed and user-friendly Town Maps are available as well as our new snowjapanmaps.com website. We have also introduced new and Zao Now and Rusutsu Now daily reports. Our new Photo uploading section allows you to easily upload any photo up to 8MB in size - the system will automatically resize. We have also re-launched our video clip website, SnowJapan.TV.

For full details of our site updates, please read this.

Snow Japan is the place to find and meet other like-minded skiers and snowboarders.
SNOW JAPAN FORUMS
Over 8050 members & 353,000 posts.
MEMBER PAGES ( 1626 )
Snow Japan reader member pages
RESORT REVIEWS ( 1769 )
Japanese snow resorts reader reviews. Latest: Yamagata Zao Onsen, Yamagata
PLACES TO STAY
Accommodation near Japanese ski resorts:
Niseko Furano
Hakuba Rusutsu
Nozawa Shiga
Yuzawa Myoko
Minakami Iwate
Fukushima Yamagata
Aomori ALL
TOWN GUIDE
Popular Japan snow resort town guides:
Niseko Furano
Hakuba Yuzawa
Nozawa Shiga
Minakami  
TOWN MAPS
Detailed town maps of major ski & snowboard resort towns in Japan.
RESORTS MAPS
Over 600 maps pages showing the location of every Japanese snow resort
JOURNALS ( 1821 )
Read online Journals posted by Snow Japan readers.
PHOTOS ( 13309 )
Thousands of photos of Japanese snow resorts.
SNOWJAPAN.TV
Japan ski & snowboard videos - upload your vids!
FEATURE ARTICLES
"Working in Shiga Kogen" by Eunice Ng. Read here...

WEEKLY GIVEAWAYS
30 lift tickets in our current Giveaways. See Forums for details.

 
 

Our video clip website has been re-launched for 2010. Click here to visit SnowJapan.TV.

CURRENT GIVEAWAYS ON SNOWJAPAN (5th Feb '10)
20 lift tickets
for Mount Six resorts - Yamagata Zao Onsen, Kusatsu Kokusai, Akakura (Myoko) and Happo-one (Hakuba) - details here.
+
10 lift tickets for the Appi Kogen resort in Iwate Prefecture. Enter here.

DAILY REPORT CENTER

NOW! CALENDAR
Access daily weather voting data from the Now! Calendar as well as our exclusive and independent individual Now daily reports from around Japan.
> Most Snowfall Chart
> Most New Snowfall Chart

NISEKO NOW! (Niseko, Hokkaido)
9th Feb 10, 10:10AM
Occasional snow continued through much of yesterday but it was reasonably wet at lower levels on the mountain. Overnight the temperature..... (read)
FURANO NOW! (Furano, Hokkaido)
9th Feb 10, 11:20AM
There has been 12cm of fresh snow in the village since yesterdays report. If you were up early this morning you..... (read)
HAKUBA NOW! (Hakuba, Nagano)
9th Feb 10, 08:22AM
The weekend just been bought plenty of smiles with blizzard conditions and strong winds on Saturday, Sunday the sky cleared though..... (read)
SHIGA NOW! (Sk, Nagano)
9th Feb 10, 09:51AM
The weather has seen some changes over the last few days! Last night after a fine > cloudy day, it was sleet..... (read)
NOZAWA NOW! (Nozawa, Nagano)
9th Feb 10, 08:52AM
The blue sky and sunshine of yesterday is now a distant memory, only to be replaced by rain and cloud. So..... (read)
YUZAWA NOW! (Yuzawa, Niigata)
9th Feb 10, 09:29AM
Yesterday turned out to be a curious one. Starting off fine, clouding over and then clearing up again in the..... (read)
NAEBA NOW! (Naeba, Niigata)
9th Feb 10, 09:34AM
It turned out cloudy yesterday from around lunchtime after that bright start. It is a mild morning here in Naeba and unfortunately..... (read)
MYOKO NOW! (Myoko, Niigata)
9th Feb 10, 09:58AM
It started out a gloomy day in Myoko — rain, lots of rain; clouds, dark gray clouds. Things are looking a..... (read)
MINAKAMI NOW! (Minakami, Gunma)
9th Feb 10, 10:38AM
The cycle of big storms followed by warm weather continues. Heavy snow on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then a mild day..... (read)
ZAO NOW! (Zao, Yamagata)
RUSUTSU NOW! (Rusutsu, Hokkaido)
 

Weather forecasts (updated multiple times daily) and snow depth information (updated once daily) can be found on the individual resort pages on SnowJapan. Please visit the Resorts section to access the resort pages.

 
READER PHOTO GALLERIES:
Karuizawa
by brightrob
Emergency Telephone Box, Yuzawa
by YuzawaNow
Niseko 2010 Jan
by Tex
Yamagata Zao Onsen - 2009/10 Season
by ILoveZao
Shiga Kogen 2009/2010
by ShigakogenNow
 
 
 
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RESORT SPOTLIGHTS
Spotlight on some popular resorts in Japan:

Alpha Resort Tomamu
Alts Bandai
Appi Kogen
Dynaland
Furano
GALA Yuzawa
Hakuba Goryu
Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Hanazono Niseko
Inawashiro
Ishiuchi Maruyama
Iwappara
Joetsu Kokusai
Madarao Kogen
Marunuma Kogen
Minamiuonuma
Mount Naeba
Mt 6
NASPA Ski Garden
Nozawa Onsen
Okushiga Kogen
Otari Village
Rusutsu
Shiga Kogen
Sugadaira
Tazawako
White World Oze Iwakura
Yamagata Zao Onsen
Yuzawa Town
 
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