Nozawa Now: Thursday 4th December 2025
- Dec 4, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 16cm
Snowfall at base this season 31cm
Posted on Thursday 4th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Hello from a snowy Nozawa. Just how we love it.
This morning the ski area is reporting 30cm of fresh snow up on the top of the mountain and while they are not posting numbers from base yet, I can tell you about the 15cm I just measured.
There is more snow due too, through until late tomorrow - particularly tomorrow (we might get some clearer skies later today).
Looking very promising.
I would expect a few more runs to open (re-open) once this is past and it looks like clearer skies are due over the weekend.
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 30cm
Uenotaira: -cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 55cm
Uenotaira: -cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Lifts operating:
Nagasaka Gondola (8:30am-3:30pm; last one down at 4:00pm)
Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad lift (8:40am-3:40pm)
Courses available:
Yamabiko D
Notes:
You need to get the gondola up to (and back down from) the open ski runs.
All base areas are closed.
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Thursday 4th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 31cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 2 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 16cm (on 4th December) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 16cm reported on 1 day |
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.