Hakuba Now: Friday 29th November 2024
- Nov 29, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 21, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 9cm
Snowfall at base this season 10cm
Posted on Friday 29th November 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba. Yes, this is very good.
It's snowing this morning and there's a good 5-10cm of snow accumulated across base areas - and no doubt a fair bit more than that at higher elevations.
What's more, it's snowing nicely right now too. All being well, we'll get a fair amount more through today and into tomorrow.
Ski areas will be bata-bata busy and (hopefully) ready to make some big decisions soon.
If I hear anything of note during the day, I'll update this report.
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Update at 9:30am:
Hakuba 47 is reporting over 60cm of snow up top and around 18cm at base.
Tsugaike is reporting 40+cm.
Sounds great to me! More, more, more...!
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Update at 5:45pm:
What a fine day it has been!
There will be lots of snow to report tomorrow morning, but for now I just want to share the news that Tsugaike Mountain Resort, ABLE Hakuba Goryu and Hakuba Happo-one have all announced that they will be opening from tomorrow morning, Saturday 30th November. Hurray!
Tsugaike plans to be open from 8am. An adult ticket from the ticket window will be 5,500 yen for the day.
Goryu plans to open from 10am with the top Panorama run available. An adult ticket is yours for the day at the handsome sum of 7,500 yen (!) including 500 yen returnable.
Happo-one plans to open from 11am with the top Panorama run available. An adult ticket is 4,000 yen.
At all three, you will need to ride the gondola up to the ski run that is open.
As of 5:45pm, there is no news yet from Hakuba 47 and I have to sign off for the day.
Please note that my report tomorrow morning might be a bit late as there is a lot of information to gather. But don't worry, it's all good news.
(Well, perhaps apart from some alarmingly rapid price increases!)
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Below are the planned opening dates for ski areas around Hakuba. All are of course subject to change and depend on snowfall.
The original plan is to open this coming weekend / as soon as there is enough snow
ABLE Hakuba Goryu
Hakuba 47 Winter Sports Park
Hakuba Happo-one (Sunday 1st December)
Tsugaike Mountain Resort
Friday 13th December 2024:
Jigatake
Saturday 14th December 2024:
Hakuba Cortina
Hakuba Norikura Onsen
Kashimayari
Friday 20th December 2024:
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field
White Resort Hakuba Sanosaka
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Data as Friday 29th November 2024 Total snowfall at base so far 10cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 2 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 9cm (29th November) November 2024 snowfall 10cm reported on 2 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Hakuba. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.