Nozawa Now: Friday 26th December 2025
- Dec 26, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 97cm
Posted on Friday 26th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Oh yes this is much better!
It's snowing, there's a good layer on the ground and we expect snow through the day today.
This might not last into tomorrow, and it might be new year before we get more, so it's important we get as much as possible please.
Snow info on the official site for lower areas is confusing me early on, but the ski area is reporting 15-17cm in the upper areas.
Wind is a thing today and I think it was blowing snow around early morning (it woke me up at about 5am), but it doesn't seem to be affecting lifts at the start of the day.
Operations remain the same. I think we can just expect more lower areas to open up when there's more so. (To stage the possibly obvious!)
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 17cm
Uenotaira: 15cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 95cm
Uenotaira: 50cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Scheduled lift operations:
Nagasaka Gondola (8:30am-3:30pm; last one down at 4:00pm)
Hikage Gondola (8:30am-3:30pm; last one down at 3:50pm)
Yamabiko Four quad lift
Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad lift
Skyline connecting pair
Uenotaira Four quad lift
Paradise Four quad lift
Yu Road (8:00am-4:40pm)
Scheduled courses available:
Yamabiko A-E
Kokenashi A/B
Uenotaira
Paradise
Uenotaira cross country course
Notes:
You need to get the gondola up to (and back down from) the open ski runs.
All base areas are closed.
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Friday 26th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 97cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 19cm (on 12th December) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 82cm 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.