Nozawa Now: Thursday 1st January 2015
- Jan 1, 2015
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 8, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 50cm
Snowfall at base this season 487cm
Posted on Thursday 1st January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Happy New Year from Nozawa Onsen.
Ah yes this is a good way to start a year --- 50cm of fresh snow on the ground and across the mountain. Loads of snow. And it's piling up quickly as well right now with snow really coming down from the skies. It's like it's making some kind of statement!
If your body can accept any more sake after the celebrations of last night, or if you just want to say Happy New Year with other folk at Nozawa, head up to near the Uenotaira Resthouse Yunomine for 11am.
If you can find it of course... visibility is definitely limited for the moment! It's clearly much colder as well this morning. There's a heavy snow warning out for the region at the moment and snow is expected to continue falling for the day and into tomorrow.
Brave the conditions though to be rewarded with copious amounts of powder.
Lift operations for the New Year. On the following days, lifts are scheduled to open 30 minutes earlier than usual with the lower lifts starting at 8am and the Gondolas starting up at 8:10am:
Friday 2nd December
Saturday 3rd December
Fresh snow to report this morning since yesterday afternoon:
Yamabiko - 40cm
Uenotaira - 50cm
Hikage - 50cm
Nagasaka - 50cm
Karasawa - 50cm
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 330cm
Uenotaira - 295cm
Hikage - 220cm
Nagasaka - 215cm
Karasawa - 190cm
Courses open:
All courses are now open except:
Grand Prix course
Jumping Course
Mukoubayashi
Challenge 39
Kandahara West
Nozawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Thursday 1st January 2015 Total snowfall at base 487cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 15 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 70cm (14th and 18th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 437cm reported on 14 days January 2015 snowfall 50cm reported on 1 day |
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.