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OK, updated. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/shownow.php?town=Yuzawa%20Now%21 Currently snowing, hope it will continue all night

Just about to do a Yuzawa Now update - check that page in 10 minutes......

The 54th Sapporo Snow Festival is set to run February 5-11. Attracting visitors from all over the globe, the festival is located in Odori Park in the heart of Sapporo, and boasts a fantastic array of ice sculptures. Sculptures vary in size from one metre, up to over three storeys in height. Created with ice and snow, by a range of international artists, the collection is breathtaking - especially at night! Sapporo weather can be cold, and the wind often biting, so warm clothing is a must. Good information is obtainable at: http://www.snowfes.com/english/index_e.html Last

Nope, if it is posted online it counts...

We do seem to be getting a lot of support in Niigata. Thanks for letting us know...

JANUARY SNOW JAPAN EXTRA GIVEAWAY More details will be published at the end of this week, but we will be running an EXTRA giveaway for the rest of January. Prizes for this will be include lift tickets for Niseko Hirafu, Joetsu Kokusai and some Smith Goggles as prizes. Entering this next giveaway will be a little different from the usual ones though..... any registered SnowJapan.Com member who submits a RESORT REVIEW that is published between now and January 31st will be entered into the draw, which will be held on February 1st. To enter: - be registered and logged in to S

JANUARY SNOW JAPAN EXTRA GIVEAWAY More details will be published at the end of this week, but we will be running an EXTRA giveaway for the rest of January. Prizes for this will be include lift tickets for Niseko Hirafu, Joetsu Kokusai and some Smith Goggles as prizes. Entering this next giveaway will be a little different from the usual ones though..... any registered SnowJapan.Com member who submits a RESORT REVIEW that is published between now and January 31st will be entered into the draw, which will be held on February 1st. To enter: - be registered and logged in to

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY A new giveaway is now online! This week, 10 SnowJapan.Com readers will win a 1-day lift ticket to the popular Nozawa Onsen resort in northen Nagano Prefecture. For more info and to enter: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php This year, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each registered member can enter each giveaway once. The winner of the Club Med giveaway will b

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY A new giveaway is now online! This week, 10 SnowJapan.Com readers will win a 1-day lift ticket to the popular Nozawa Onsen resort in northen Nagano Prefecture. For more info and to enter: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php This year, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each registered member can enter each giveaway once. The winner of the Club Med giveaway will b

The Forums - as you can see - are back online, as of Sunday afternoon. Apologies for the break in service.... SnowJapan.Com

Just so this is clear - any signed up Insider members can enter any/all our giveaways - just fill out the form for each giveaway and you're entered!

OK, just spoken to Club Med. Make that an outdoor jacuzzi... We'll change the info now.

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY A new giveaway is now online! This week, one lucky SnowJapan.Com reader will be on their way (with friend) to the Club Med resort facility in Sahoro, Hokkaido for a 2 night/3 day holiday in the snow. The giveaway includes: - Accommodation - Superb cuisine 3 times daily - Unlimited wines & soft drinks with lunch & dinner - Free pass for gondola & lift riders - Free ski & snowboard schools - Free indoor sports tuition & equipment - Indoor swimming pool, jacuzzi, outdoor Canadian Bath (outdoor jacuzzi) - Fabulous enterta

No probs, deebee. Glad you're enjoying the season

They are supposed to indicate relative size of resorts. But are independant between maps. With questions like this, can you please direct them in future to us directly at editor@snowjapan.com. That will ensure us seeing your questions and a response from us to you by email. Thanks SJ

We'd just like to bring up a few points about uploading and linking to member photos on the Forums. While we actively encourage you to upload photos and utilise your member pages, we have been having a few problems with some users uploading extremely large images. We are looking into ways around the following issues (and hope to bring you news about that soon) but for now..... UPLOADING PHOTOS: If you are uploading photos to your Member pages on Snow Japan, keep try to keep the size (weight) of the photos as small in size as possible. We would appreciate it if all photos are kept to

miteyak - thanks for the comments. The info provided, as we said before, is all either coming from people living in those areas, or (in the case of the weather forecasts) from official Japanese weather data sources (the exact same data that is also used by large TV stations, weather forecasts, newspapers, etc etc). oo - thanks. And no, it certainly doesn't come cheap.

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY A new giveaway is now online! This week, you have the chance to win one of 3 Airflow Series Cascade X Smith goggles. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php This year, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. The 10 winners of last weeks giveaway will be notified by email today and announced and published on the site from next week.

SNOW JAPAN GIVEAWAY A new giveaway is now online! This week, you have the chance to win one of 3 Airflow Series Cascade X Smith goggles. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/special.php This year, our giveaways are open to all Snow Japan Insider members. You will be able to access the page if you are logged in as a member. After that it's really simple, just write a few comments and send in your entry. Each member can enter each giveaway once. The 10 winners of last weeks giveaway will be notified by email today and announced and published on the site from next week.

Yes, sorry about that. Since we launched the new site and then the Japanese site on 22nd (which was 3 weeks later than originally planned), time has just gone so fast and we've been busier than expected with one thing and another. Meaning that our original plans of having an official get-together in December have not materialised unfortunately. We do plan for something in the New Year though, so keep your eyes open. Many thanks!

There always seems to be some deaths at resorts. Just in this region, last year there was a fatal accident at GALA here in Yuzawa, and another at Ishiuchi Maruyama the season before. Here's a post from last season about the death at GALA: http://www.skijapanguide.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002296#000000

It is not the easiest to write things that may be interesting when there is no snow and the resorts there are 2 weeks from opening. We will be doing our best to provide the best information we have as the season gets going.

SNOW JAPAN - JAPANESE FORUMS Our new Japanese forums are now online and ready to go! You can get there by clicking on the JAPANESE FORUM link at the top right of any page of the English forums. Just a few points: - if you want to use the Japanese forums using the same handle you use on this English forum, you will have to register in the Japanese forum in order to do that. - as the Japanese forum is brand spanking new, at first there may not be much activity on there at all! We are going to do our best to spread the word around with some marketing of the J site, but eve

To submit resort rankings, names and email addresses are now not necessary. VOTING http://www.snowjapan.com/e/voice/rankVote.php RANKING SEARCH http://www.snowjapan.com/e/voice/ranking.php If we feel the system gets abused, this might change but for now you can submit votes simply. Thanks

Hardly any snow in town level Yuzawa right now, just up in the mountains. Looks like there might be some snow on it's way tonight though. We are just about 1 minute walk from the station.