Ski area opening & closing dates
Here's something completely new for this year.
On ski area information pages within SnowJapan, we have added the actual opening and closing dates for the 2021-2022 season as we all as the proposed opening and closing dates for the upcoming 2022-2023 season.
What we used to do (on the old site)
Previously, once a winter season was finished, we left the opening and closing dates untouched until the autumn months. Then, we gradually updat
A new interactive guide to Japanese ski area opening & closing dates
In late spring, as a new feature, we compiled and added the actual 2021-2022 season opening and closing dates for (almost) every ski area around Japan. That information is posted on the individual ski area pages within SnowJapan.
We have brought all that information together in a new interactive table that lets you quickly view, compare, search, filter and sort it. Here it is:
https://www.snowjapan.com/guide
We have added various guides to explain each of the sections of SnowJapan 2022.
The guides can be found from the links below:
Introduction
Ski Areas section
Ski Areas section (individual ski area pages)
Daily Reports
Guides
Listings
Webcams
https://www.snowjapan.com/japan-daily-snow-weather-reports/webcams
On the new website we made some significant changes to the Webcams area of the site. Previously, all of the links were presented on one rather busy page. Some were links to pages within SnowJapan; some were links to outside SnowJapan. And (for various reasons) we were not able to make regular updates. Unfortunately, it had become rather outdated.
On the new site, all that has changed with what we believe a