joshnii 2 Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 In the local paper, about numbers of skiers and snowboarders this season. Shiozawa town - down 18% on last season. Yuzawa town - down 15% on last season (but for the month of March 3% up on last year) Muikamachi/Yamato town - down 14% on last season. Naeba - down 13% Iwappara - down 8% Ishiuchi - down 12% Joetsu Kokusai resort - apparently the victim of some nasty rumors on the internet about big damage because of the earthquake - down 24%. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Nasty rumors - know more about that? Link to post Share on other sites
Frinkelbean 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Apparently, February and March were pretty decent for the area probably to do with the snowfall. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted April 26, 2005 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted April 26, 2005 Thats what we have heard as well. (We will be putting together some stats articles fairly soon.) Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Seasonwise most places will be down due to the late start. There was no snow until just before the holiday period. Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 And it didn't really get good until the end of the holiday period Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted April 27, 2005 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted April 27, 2005 Got the Yuzawa numbers here now. Sneak preview (full details will be in a feature coming in May). Figures are for Yuzawa Town (all of the resorts in Yuzawa together) and skier/snowboard number % compared with the previous year. November 04 - 67.6% December 04 - 63.3% January 05 - 91.3% February 05 - 87.5% March 05 - 103.5% Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 So it doesn't look like the earthquake had quite the disasterous results people were dreading then, once January rolled round. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 The bumper snow surely had a pretty positive effect on things. Link to post Share on other sites
echineko 1 Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Did some people here not going Niigata because of earthquake? Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts