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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 ( 1632 )
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RESORT REVIEWS ( 1780 )
Japanese snow resorts reader reviews. Latest: Niseko Grand Hirafu, Hokkaido
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 ( 14052 )
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
20 lift tickets in our current Giveaways. See Forums for details.

 
 

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CURRENT GIVEAWAYS ON SNOWJAPAN (19th Feb '10)
20 lift tickets
- 10 for Nozawa Onsen in Nagano and 10 for Yamagata Zao Onsen in Yamagata.

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)
12th Mar 10, 11:59AM
This morning is cloudy and pretty windy and there's been a little dusting of fairly wet snow at lower levels. Temps..... (read)
FURANO NOW! (Furano, Hokkaido)
12th Mar 10, 10:14AM
Things are looking very good for today. The sun was coming out strong early in the morning. It is currently blocked..... (read)
HAKUBA NOW! (Hakuba, Nagano)
12th Mar 10, 09:12AM
A beautiful morning today, with warm weather and blue skies after a cold night. The snow will have hopefully dried..... (read)
SHIGA NOW! (Sk, Nagano)
12th Mar 10, 08:34AM
All change again! After the period of winter like weather this morning is bright sunshine from early on and blue skies...... (read)
NOZAWA NOW! (Nozawa, Nagano)
12th Mar 10, 11:18AM
After two days of snow, we've now been blessed with a blue-bird day. Perfect Spring skiing conditions, with some powder still..... (read)
YUZAWA NOW! (Yuzawa, Niigata)
12th Mar 10, 08:16AM
After the few days of winter this morning sees another change in conditions. It is sunny early on with blue..... (read)
NAEBA NOW! (Naeba, Niigata)
12th Mar 10, 08:24AM
It is a bright and sunny start to the day in Naeba. Mild too as we go back to those..... (read)
MYOKO NOW! (Myoko, Niigata)
11th Mar 10, 08:05AM
Another day with some fresh snow; let's say about 20cm, and it's nice and light (so far, anyway—the sun looks like..... (read)
MINAKAMI NOW! (Minakami, Gunma)
12th Mar 10, 01:20PM
Spring is back. Pretty warm outside right now and snow is melting here in the valley. Conditions up the hill are..... (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:
Vale Niseko
by cableitoh
Snow from around my area!
by snowdude00
Niseko/Sapporo 27/02
by brightrob
Nozawa. 8th.2.2010
by roscoe
Yamagata Zao Onsen - 2009/10 Season
by ILoveZao
 
 
 
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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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