Nozawa Now: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
- Jan 2, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 10, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 217cm
Posted on Wednesday 2nd January 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
A really nice morning yesterday. It seemed to take a while for people to appear - I wonder why?! - but the weather and conditions were probably enough to convince even those with a hangover to strap on the skis or board.
Clouds started appearing again later in the day and by evening it was snowing again and this morning Nozawa are reporting up to 25cm of fresh snow on the upper slopes and a good 10-15cm on lower areas. Which is a nice surprise.
Light snow still falling this morning and the snow clouds should be with us today and tomorrow. Perhaps just light snow, rather than what we got last week.
If you are wanting to be here for some sunshine, perhaps timing your visit for Friday is a good bet. And some people will be back at work by then too...
Special nighta until 8:00pm tonight at Nagasaka.
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort (since yesterday morning):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 25cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 20cm
- Hikage (660m): 15cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 15cm
- Karasawa (563m): 10cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 205cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 170cm
- Hikage (660m): 110cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 100cm
- Karasawa (563m): 80cm
All lifts apart from the following planned to be operating:
- Kandahar pair
All courses open apart from the following planned to be open:
- Kandahar
- Grand Prix
- Mukobayashi
- Hachiman
Nozawa Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Wednesday 2nd January 2019 Total snowfall at base 217cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 16 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (15th December) November 2018 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2018 snowfall 202cm reported on 13 days January 2019 snowfall 13cm reported on 2 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.