Nozawa Now: Friday 5th December 2025
- Dec 5, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 36cm
Posted on Friday 5th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Hello from Nozawa Onsen.
We still have snowy skies over the region, but not a huge amount of fresh to report since yesterday. The ski area itself is reporting 12cm of fresh to give a snow depth of 60cm up at Yamabiko.
All being well, we will get some more during the day today.
Over the weekend we are expecting sunny skies and a return to milder conditions, with the next snow due by Tuesday. Fingers crossed it won't warm up too much.
Anyway, the ski area is planning on opening up Uenotaira today so operations are gradually expanding.
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 12cm
Uenotaira: -cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 60cm
Uenotaira: -cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Lifts operating:
Nagasaka Gondola (8:30am-3:30pm; last one down at 4:00pm)
Yamabiko Four quad lift
Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad lift
Uenotaira Four quad lift
Courses available:
Yamabiko A
Yamabiko B
Yamabiko C
Yamabiko D
Yamabiko E
Uenotaira (open once prepared)
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 Friday 5th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 36cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 3 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 16cm (on 4th December) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 21cm 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.