Myoko Now: Wednesday 28th January 2026
- Jan 28
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Myoko region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 28cm
Snowfall at base this season 787cm
Posted on Wednesday 28th January 2026 This is an archived report. The latest Myoko Now report can be found here.
A little more reasonable morning today; it gets busy here in winter! So many things to do, so many people to meet, so much snow (finally) to deal with.
The last one is tough, especially when we get a massive fall like the last one, but, you know, there is some satisfaction in getting things ready to roll as the snow walls rise ever higher....
My editor here (part of the full SnowJapan reporting team) sent me a link to local paper reporting on something I’d heard a rumor about. Seems that a team of them foreigners were out in our sidecountry and set off a pretty good slide that blocked the road to Highland Hotel, an accommodation kind of off the road up past Seki Onsen and on to Tsubame Onsen. The last spot on the road, in other words, and apparently cut off for a while because of those mad snowboarders. There have been several groups out there filming videos, including one very famous boarder guy (who will go nameless because I don’t know if he was involved in this). I do know that we’ve had some pretty hairy things happening as people want to jump off avy barriers (like several broken femurs, and lots of slides that fortunately haven’t killed anybody yet).
Bad press, kids! Don’t be them bad foreigners doing thoughtless things in the backcountry.
Good snow today, by the way. Enjoy it!
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Akakura Kanko:
290cm, -6°
All lifts back to normal
Akakura Onsen:
300cm, -5°
Alpen Blick Resort
180cm, -5° (yesterday’s report)
Myoko Suginohara:
200cm top, 150cm base; -10°
Kyukamura RunRun:
300cm, -1°
Seki Onsen:
560cm, -10°
Tangram Madarao Tokyu Resort:
155cm, -4°
Madarao Mountain Resort:
230cm, -6°
Lotte Arai Resort:
435cm, 1°
Gondola starting late
Kurohime Kogen Snow Park:
210cm top, 110cm base; -2°
Myoko Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Wednesday 28th January 2026 Total snowfall at base so far 787cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 33 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 120cm (on 25th January) November 2025 snowfall 35cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 184cm reported on 11 days January 2026 snowfall 568cm reported on 21 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Myoko. 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.