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Nozawa Now: Sunday 31st December 2023

  • Dec 31, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Feb 11

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 114cm

Posted on Sunday 31st December 2023 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


It is cloudy, there is some light rain across the region and it is just under 2C at 8am.


There will not be any night skiing and fireworks tonight as originally planned. Very hopefully, by tonight it will be snowing.


And I look forward to telling you about it tomorrow. (Please let it happen!)


See you in 2024.


Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):

Yamabiko: 0cm

Uenotaira: 0cm


Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):

Yamabiko: 75cm

Uenotaira: 70cm

Hikage: 40cm

Nagasaka: 30cm

Karasawa: 25cm


Lifts operating:

Nagasaka Gondola (from 8:00am)

Hikage Gondola (from 8:00am)

Yamabiko Four lift

Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad lift

Skyline connecting pair lift

Uenotaira quad lift

Paradise quad lift

Hikage triple lift

Nagasaka triple lift

Nagasaka gondola link lift

Yu Road (from 7:30am)


Courses available:

Yamabiko A-E

Kokenashi A/B

Uenotaira (some restrictions)

Paradise

Kumataka

Kitsune


Top areas of the ski area are open.

You need to get a gondola back down to base from the top area.

A few base runs are also now open.



Nozawa Now 2023-2024 season

Data as of Sunday 31st December 2023 Total snowfall at base 114cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 64cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 93cm reported on 10 days




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