Nozawa Now: Saturday 4th January 2020
- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 10, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 16cm
Snowfall at base this season 69cm
Posted on Saturday 4th January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
A very good morning to you from Nozawa.
I am really happy to be able to report 35cm of fresh snowfall on the top Yamabiko area of the resort (as reported by the resort itself) and a nice layer of snow down at base too.
Limited visibility on the upper slopes early morning, but conditions should be good. Take care out there.
More decent snow due tonight after a day of cloud and light snow forecast for the day.
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday afternoon:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 35cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 20cm
- Hikage (660m): -cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 15cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 105cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 85cm
- Hikage (660m): 40cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 35cm
- Karasawa (563m): 20cm
All lifts normally operating apart from these lifts:
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
- Nagasaka four
- Kawazawa pair
These courses normally plan to be open:
- Yamabiko A B C D E
- Kogenashi A B
- Uenotaira
- Yunomine A B
- Mizunashi A B
- Bunabayashi
- Challenge
- Utopia A
- Hikage
- Rinkan
- Kumataka (as a connecting course to the Nagasaka gondola station)
- Kitsune
- Ushikubi
- Nagasaka lower (as a connecting course)
Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Saturday 4th January 2020 Total snowfall at base 69cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (28th December) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 32cm reported on 3 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.