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Hakuba Now: Sunday 11th January 2026

  • Jan 11
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 163cm

Posted on Sunday 11th January 2026 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.


Lovely day yesterday, though it did get rather mild in the afternoon (nearly getting as warm as 10C).


This morning there is several cm of snow around base areas in places and we have more due through the day along with strong winds. Early on ski areas seem to be opening pretty much as normal but some higher lifts might be affected.


Happo-one reporting the most new snowfall so far with 15cm at Kurobishi and 12cm at Usagidaira.


Anyway, it might get blown around a lot but I should have some good snowfall numbers to report tomorrow morning.


I found the auto-translate on Tsugaike facebook-thingy rather amusing again this morning:


"Okinawa Pow looks like fun!"


Okinawa?! But what about Hakuba?!


For those interested in how something like that might happen, the original Japanese that is being translated to Okinawa is 栂パウ. The first kanji is the first kanji of Tsugaike. The two katakana say pa-u ('pow'). Interesting how that ended up as Okinawa. Again, be extremely wary of these auto-translate things.



Hakuba Now

2025-2026 season

Data as Sunday 11th January 2026


Total snowfall at base so far

163cm

Number of days snowfall observed at base

21 days

Most snowfall observed in 1 day

20cm (on 5th December)

November 2025 snowfall

2cm reported on 1 day

December 2025 snowfall

98cm reported on 12 days

January 2026 snowfall

63cm reported on 8 days




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