Nozawa Now: Thursday 12th February 2026
- Feb 12
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 680cm
Posted on Thursday 12th February 2026 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Hello from Nozawa Onsen.
This morning we have sunshine, blue sky and some cloud. Good visibility. Not much wind. A fine morning.
The ski area is reporting up to 13cm of snow on upper areas (though curiously just 2cm at Yamabiko).
The region is going to 'enjoy' (discuss!) some milder conditions along with probably a lot of sunshine through the end of the weekend.
Temps looks set to drop back down to something more like mid-winter mode from Monday.
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 2cm
Uenotaira: 13cm
Hikage: 0cm
Nagasaka: 0cm
Karasawa: 0cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 275cm
Uenotaira: 245cm
Hikage: 175cm
Nagasaka: 160cm
Karasawa: 150cm
Scheduled lift operations:
All operating except Challenge pair and Utopia pair [weekday operations]
Courses that are not available (when the ski area is operating as normal):
All open
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Thursday 12th February 2026 Total snowfall at base 680cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 42 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 76cm (on 25th January) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 134cm reported on 11 days January 2026 snowfall 438cm reported on 22 days February 2026 snowfall 93cm reported on 8 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.