Nozawa Now: Sunday 28th December 2025
- Dec 28, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 149cm
Posted on Sunday 28th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
What a fine day yesterday was!
There were lots of people - and at least one bright green vegetable - around to enjoy all that fresh snow, too.
Marvellous.
After some early morning snow, it is cloudy still around the mountain but there is blue sky away from the mountain. It might turn out to be a fine and clear day.
Tomorrow is set to be sunny too.
And then we have more snow lined up from around Wednesday.
Feeling good.
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 2cm
Uenotaira: 3cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 140cm
Uenotaira: 100cm
Hikage: 70cm
Nagasaka: 60cm
Karasawa: 65cm
Scheduled lift operations:
All except the following...
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Kandahar pair
Nagasaka quad
Scheduled courses available:
Yamabiko A-E
Kokenashi A/B
Uenotaira
Paradise
Nagasaka connecting
Hikage
Kumataka
Kitsune
Nagasaka (restrictions)
Rinkan
Karasawa connecting
Some more course will open after checks and given the ok!
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Sunday 28th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 149cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 50cm (on 27th December) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 134cm reported on 11 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.