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Nozawa Now: Friday 23rd February 2024

  • Feb 23, 2024
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 13, 2025

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 426cm

Posted on Friday 23rd February 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


We have some light snow falling this morning, with a kind of light snow/dusting situation going on (on and off) since the report yesterday, so it hasn't really amounted to much in terms of cm. Perhaps we might get a few today. Beyond today, Monday is showing some potential for fresh snow.


Happy to report that Skyline (and runs off it) are back open this morning, yey!


Night skiing was planned for today and tomorrow but that has been cancelled (due to snow conditions).


Today is a national holiday and the ski area is extending ski lift operations by 30 minutes both tomorrow and Sunday.


Note: I missed the update during the day yesterday, sorry, but I think the ski area reported a few extra cm during the day. The new snowfall numbers reported below are 'since yesterday afternoon'.


Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):

Yamabiko: 1cm

Uenotaira: 2cm

Hikage: 1cm

Nagasaka: 1cm

Karasawa: 1cm


Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):

Yamabiko: 160cm

Uenotaira: 130cm

Hikage: 55cm

Nagasaka: 50cm

Karasawa: 30cm


All courses apart from the following are now open:

Hachiman

Kurokura

Utopia B

Schneider southern

Kandahar

Mukobayashi



Nozawa Now 2023-2024 season

Data as of Friday 23rd February 2024 Total snowfall at base 426cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 38 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 64cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 93cm reported on 10 days January 2024 snowfall 219cm reported on 14 days February 2024 snowfall 93cm reported on 12 days




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