Nozawa Now: Sunday 28th January 2018
- Jan 28, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 12cm
Snowfall at base this season 513cm
Posted on Sunday 28th January 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
It is a cold morning again but it feels like we are now past the peak of that storm we have had. There's some more snow from yesterday and overnight. The fresh snowfall numbers below are from 3pm yesterday and overnight - sorry, I missed the numbers the resort was publishing during the day yesterday... so the totals will be more. My own observation is 12cm of fresh snowfall here at base.
All should be open this morning and if things clear up like they seem likely to, we should be in for an all round fantastic day. I'm off out to enjoy it.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday (as reported by the resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 20cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 10cm
- Hikage (660m): 5cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 5cm
- Karasawa (563m): 5cm
Official snow depth numbers:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 340cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 275cm
- Hikage (660m): 200cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 195cm
- Karasawa (563m): 170cm
Lifts operations:
- All scheduled lifts appear to be operating as normal.
- The Yunomine pair, Mizunashi triple, Challenge pair and Utopia pair lifts usually rested on weekdays.
The following courses either closed (or not fully available):
- Grand Prix
- Kamoshika
- Kandahar
Nozawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Sunday 28th January 2018 Total snowfall at base 513cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 35 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 53cm (27th December) November 2017 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2017 snowfall 217cm reported on 16 days January 2018 snowfall 275cm reported on 17 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.