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Hakuba Now: Friday 10th January 2020

  • Jan 10, 2020
  • 3 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 64cm

Posted on Friday 10th January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.


Good morning from Hakuba.


Yesterday wind was causing problems with some lifts but fine weather for the most part especially in the morning with more cloud appearing in the afternoon.


I have some decent snow news for you this morning, with resorts reporting up to 20cm of snowfall on upper slopes and up to 10cm on lower areas.


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Hakuba Happo-one


Operating lifts:

- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:

- Kurobishi Number 3 pair

- Nakiyama Number 2 pair

- Shirakaba Number 1 pair

- Shirakaba Number 2 pair

- Central pair

- Sakka Number 2 pair

- Sakka Number 3 triple


Courses open:

- Panorama

- Usagidaira

- Kurobishi

- Skyline

- Riesen Slalom

- Kita-one 3

- Nakiyama South also part open so you can ski/board back to base over there side area


Official snow depth:

- Kurobishi: 145cm

- Usagidaira: 105cm

- Nakiyama: 25cm


Hakuba 47


Operating lifts:

- Gondola

- Line A B pair lift

- Line C quad lift

- Line E pair lift


Courses open:

- All main courses now open

- Tree Riding Zones not yet available


Official snow depth:

- Top: 115cm

- Base: 35cm


Hakuba Goryu


Operating lifts:

- Gondola

- Alps Number 1 pair

- Alps Number 3 pair

- Toomi Sky Four quad

- Toomi Number 1 pair

- Milky Four quad

- Number 1 pair


Courses open:

- Panorama

- Grand Prix

- Technical

- Super

- Champion Dynamic

- Champion Expert

- Woody

- Toomi

- Soft Cream

- Merry Land


Official snow depth:

- Alps: 115cm

- Toomi: 60cm

- Iimori: 50cm


Tsugaike Kogen


Operating lifts:

- Gondola

- Han-no-ki Number 3 quad

- Shirakaba quad

- Maruyama Number 1 quad

- Champion quad

- Tsugaike Number 1 pair

- Tsugaike Central Triple

- Karamatsu high speed pair

- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyline II

- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyline III

- Kane-no-naru-oka romance


Courses open:

- Most course areas are now at least part open

- Not open: Uma-no-se and Kane-no-naru-oka 2

- DBD not available yet


Official snow depth:

- Tsuga-no-mori: 115cm

- Maruyama: 40cm

- Kane-no-naru-oka: 15cm


Hakuba Valley Kashimayari

- All lifts are operating


Hakuba Cortina


Operating lifts:

- All lifts apart from Number 6


Operating courses:

- Most lifts open though some restrictions


Official snow depth:

- Top: 100cm

- Base: 50cm


Hakuba Norikura Onsen


Operating lifts:

- All lifts apart from Number 3, 7 and 10 are operating


Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field


Operating lifts:

- Gondola

- 4sen East

- 4sen North


Hakuba Sanosaka


Operating lifts:

- All lifts apart from Number 5 pair are operating



Hakuba Now 2019-2020 season

Data as of Friday 10th January 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 64cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 15 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 16cm (5th January) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 1 day December 2019 snowfall 28cm reported on 8 days January 2020 snowfall 32cm reported on 6 days



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