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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



Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season

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




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