Nozawa Now: Saturday 19th December 2015
- Dec 19, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 7cm
Snowfall at base this season 32cm
Posted on Saturday 19th December 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Very good news....
Nozawa Onsen is now open!
15cm more snow overnight on the mountain and the lifts are going to start moving in a matter of minutes.
Planned lifts:
- Nagasaka Gondola (from 8:40am)
- Hikage Gondola (from 8:40am)
- Skyline link lift
- Yamabiko Four lift
- Yamabiko Number 2 lift
- Uenotaira
- Yu Road
Planned open courses:
- Yamabiko A course - 1300m length
- Yamabiko C course - 850m length
- Yamabiko D course - 1250m length
- Kokenashi - 200m
- Uenotaira
Marvellous.
It's those upper course area only of course, so you need to get the gondola back down to base.
Adults 4800 yen, children 2200 yen, seniors 3700 yen.
Sun expected tomorrow but it should be keeping cold.
Enjoy.
Official snow depths (as of 19th December 2015):
Yamabiko: 40cm
Uenotaira: 40cm
Hikage: -cm
Nagasaka: -cm
Karasawa: -cm
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Data as of Saturday 19th December 2015 Total snowfall at base 32cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 5 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 15cm (18th December) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 29cm 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.