Nozawa Now: 6th October 2026
Updated: 4 hours ago
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano Prefecture
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Good morning from Nozawa.
After a long and hot summer I am personally very happy that temps are now much more comfortable (liveable!). It's such a relieft every year when the heat eases off. It might not be a very nice day, as you can see from the webcam image below, but I'll happiy take the cool 16C.
As you can see, SnowJapan has changed a lot since I was last here. I'm still getting used to it all and will need a bit of practice with my reports over the coming weeks before winter. I'll copy a few of my other reporters and point out a few things that I particularly like:
Insights section - let's nerdy data!
There's more. Go take a look while we wait for winter.
There is lots of talk of El Nino and annoying 'warmer than usual temperatures' headlines, but I choose to remain entirely positive and excited about the prospect of heavy snow coming our way. Perhaps we can will it to happen.
Anyway, this is just an early 'hello'. Regular updates will become a thing once we get into November, though I might be back from time to time before then...
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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.