Nozawa Now: Monday 15th December 2025
- Dec 15, 2025
- 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 78cm
Posted on Monday 15th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from Nozawa.
Some snow overnight and hopefully more during the day today.
The good news is that I see the ski area is actually reporting 27cm of fresh up in the top Yamabiko area. That sounds good!
It isn't feeling particularly cold, but should be getting a bit colder as the morning goes on. Fingers crossed more snow, too.
One other thing today is wind. The ski area is warning that strong winds might affect gondola operations.
Cloudy skies due tonight and a chance of some clear skies tomorrow along with milder conditions.
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 27cm
Uenotaira: -cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 105cm
Uenotaira: 75cm
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 Monday 15th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 78cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 7 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 19cm (on 12th December) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 63cm 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.