Nozawa Now: Friday 13th January 2017
- Jan 13, 2017
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 28cm
Snowfall at base this season 228cm
Posted on Friday 13th January 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from a snowy Nozawa. As it should be!
And a very decent amount of fresh snow across mountain as well this morning. Since yesterday there's been 35+cm on the upper Yamabiko area and 25-30cm down by base.
And there's more on the way. We can expect heavy snow over the next three days.
Brilliant.
If you want to wait for the snow storm to pass, Monday or Tuesday might be the days for you.
If you just can't wait to ride that fresh snow, try to contain the excitement and keep a calm head. I know it's difficult. I'm going to try and do that myself this morning.
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 36cm
- Uenotaira: 35cm
- Hikage: 30cm
- Nagasaka: 30cm
- Karasawa: 25cm
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 200cm
- Uenotaira: 160cm
- Hikage: 80cm
- Nagasaka: 70cm
- Karasawa: 60cm
Lifts operations:
All lifts appear to be operating except for:
- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
Most courses at Nozawa Onsen are now open. Courses not open are:
- Hachiman
- Mukobayashi
- Kandahar East
- Kandahar West
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Friday 13th January 2017 Total snowfall at base 228cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 22 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 42cm (30th December) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 161cm reported on 14 days January 2017 snowfall 65cm reported on 6 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.