Nozawa Now: Tuesday 25th December 2018
- Dec 25, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 10, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 98cm
Posted on Tuesday 25th December 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
And Happy Christmas! I spotted Santa on some skis yesterday talking with our favourite skiing vegetable Nozawa mascot, Nasuki. Good to see them getting along.
The resort is reporting 3-5cm of fresh snowfall overnight on the mountain, in addition to the 5-13cm of snow that they reported during the daytime yesterday. I'm measuring just a bit since my report yesterday. It is always good to report numbers, but these are not big numbers. But we are probably not going to have to wait much longer to enjoy some much bigger numbers and the bigsnow fun should be starting from tomorrow night. Don't worry if it is a bit wet at first, the last part of the week and the weekend is set to be very snowy indeed. Excellent.
For the moment the sun is out and it's a fine (and cold) Christmas morning.
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort (since yesterday):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 13cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 18cm
- Hikage (660m): 8cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 10cm
- Karasawa (563m): ?cm
Official snow depth numbers:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 95cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 90cm
- Hikage (660m): 35cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 30cm
- Karasawa (563m): 20cm
Planned lifts operations:
- Nagasaka Gondola
- Hikage Gondola
- Yamabiko Four Lift
- Yamabiko Number 2 Four Lift
- Skyline connecting pair lift
- Yunomine pair lift
- Uenotaira Four Lift
- Hikage Triple lift
- Hikage Four lift
- Shinyu pair lift
- Nagasaka triple lift
- Yu Road
All courses mostly open apart from the following:
- Challenge 39
- Utopia B
- Kurokura
- Kandahar
- Grand Prix
- Jumping
- Hikage Wall
- Mukobayashi
- Karasawa
- Skyline
- Hachiman
- Nagasaka Link
- Karasawa Link
- Kamoshika
- Tanuki
- Usagi
Nozawa Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Tuesday 25th December 2018 Total snowfall at base 98cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (15th December) November 2018 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2018 snowfall 96cm reported on 9 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.