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Nozawa Now: Wednesday 31st December 2025

  • Dec 31, 2025
  • 2 min read

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


New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 149cm

Posted on Wednesday 31st December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Greetings from Nozawa on this last day of 2025.


The day is starting, down at base at least, with cloudy skies.


Forecasts entice us with the prospect of snow - sometimes possibly heavy snow - sometime today (from late morning or lunchtime perhaps?) and through tomorrow and Friday, too.


A good old traditional Nozawa-like snow storm, by the looks. Hopefully at least wind won't be a problem, but the delivery of snow is the biggest thing right now.


I'm really looking forward to it!


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

Yamabiko: 0cm

Uenotaira: 0cm

Hikage: 0cm

Nagasaka: 0cm

Karasawa: 0cm


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

Yamabiko: 120cm

Uenotaira: 80cm

Hikage: 55cm

Nagasaka: 45cm

Karasawa: 35cm


Scheduled lift operations:

All operating except Nagasaka quad


Courses that are not yet available:

Skyline

Kamoshika

Tanuki

Usagi

Jumping

Grand Prix

Nagasaka

Mukobayashi

Hachiman

Karasawa

Utopia B

Kandahara

Challenge 39 no kabe


Information on the ski area:


Nozawa Now

2025-2026 season

Data as of Wednesday 31st 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.


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