Nozawa Now: Friday 12th December 2025
- Dec 12, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 19cm
Snowfall at base this season 61cm
Posted on Friday 12th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Snowy greetings to you from Nozawa.
First of all the bad news. Wind is preventing the gondola from moving this morning, so effectively the ski area is closed today. Data below shows what is 'normally open'.
I'm not seeing any snowfall numbers reported by the ski area this morning, but I can report 19cm from down at base. Perhaps that isn't as much as we thought we might get, but it is snowing and we are expecting snow through the day today.
And I imagine a fair bit more than that up at Yamabiko.
A break in the snow tomorrow, but more coming in later on Sunday.
Let's have it!
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: ?cm
Uenotaira: -cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 60cm
Uenotaira: 40cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Lifts operating:
Nagasaka Gondola (8:30am-3:30pm; last one down at 4:00pm)
Yamabiko Four quad lift
Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad lift
Uenotaira Four quad lift
Courses available:
Yamabiko A
Yamabiko B
Yamabiko C
Yamabiko D
Yamabiko E
Uenotaira
Notes:
You need to get the gondola up to (and back down from) the open ski runs.
All base areas are closed.
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Friday 12th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 61cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 5 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 19cm (on 12th December) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 46cm reported on 4 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Nozawa Onsen. 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.