Nozawa Now: Sunday 22nd December 2013
- Dec 22, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 7, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 30cm
Snowfall at base this season 97cm
Posted on Sunday 22nd December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
A bit more snowfall this morning with between 5-7cm reported on the upper parts of the resort and just a bit down below too. It is cloudy at the moment with light snow trying to fall still at higher elevations. Hoping for more snow today and tomorrow.
11am this morning is the Grand Opening "Opening Festival" for Nozawa Onsen resort, to be held near the top Nagasaka Gondola Station. There should be some sake on offer and no doubt some other goodies and probably your change to shake hands with the Nozawa Onsen mascot character. Perhaps worth a look if you are up there when it happens.
There are more lifts and courses open from this morning and it's now easier to say which aren't moving than which are moving. See below for the latest there. Courses wise, the area to the right of the Nagasaka Gondola as you look from the village - including the Skyline course - is not yet open. Other than that, most of the main runs of the resort are open from today.
Today is the first day of the three day long weekend in Japan and so it should be quite busy today and tomorrow especially.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 125cm
Uenotaira - 110cm
Hikage - 0cm
Nagasaka - 35cm
Karasawa - 0cm
Lifts
All lifts operating apart from:
Kandahara Pair
Nagasaka 4
Nagasaka gondola connecting pair
Karasawa pair
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Sunday 22nd December 2013 Total snowfall at base 97cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (22nd December) November 2013 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2013 snowfall 82cm reported on 8 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.