Yuzawa Now: Friday 19th May 2017
- May 19, 2017
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 24, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 954cm
Posted on Friday 19th May 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
It is a lovely morning in Yuzawa, and a little warmer too. Here in town we are expecting it to warm up to around 24-25C today.
The Kagura resort remains open for skiing and snowboarding of course... just the Kagura Area.
The Mitsumata Area of the resort is now being used as a 'connecting course' which means that it is open but used just to get over to (and back from) the Kagura area. The snow is melting away and things are getting narrower. There's still a lot of snow up at the main Kagura area and very good snow cover, even if it isn't looking perfect white (a bit dirty). We really can't expect anything else in the second half of May!
So if you are planning on visiting you will get the Mitsumata Ropeway and then the Number 1 quad to get over to the Gondola, and then the gondola over to the Kagura Area. Hope that is clear.
Courses planned to be open for the weekend are updated below. If there is a change to plans from Monday, we'll try to post an update with that news.
It's looking like the weather is going to be clear and sunny and very warm over the weekend, and into next week too. Nice and settled.
Have fun if you get up there, it should be a real feel-good weekend.
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Planned open courses at Kagura
At the Kagura Area:
Kagura main course – about 1,500m
Technical course – about 500m
Giant course – about 1,100m
Gondola course – about 4,000m
Panorama course – about 700m (* weekends only)
Planned lift operations at Kagura
Mitsumata Ropeway (8:00am until 5:00pm) - daily
Mitsumata Number 1 quad (9:00am until 3:15pm) - daily
Mitsumata Number 2 pair (9:00am until 4:30pm) - daily
Kagura Gondola (8:15am until 3:45pm) - daily
Kagura Number 1 quad lift (8:30am until 4:00pm) - daily
Kagura Number 1 pair lift (9:00am until 4:00pm) – weekends only
Kagura Number 4 pair lift (9:00am until 3:45pm) – weekends only
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The Tashiro Ropeway and Tashiro Area of Kagura resort are now closed.
All other ski and snowboard resorts in the Yuzawa and Minamiuonuma region are now closed.
Yuzawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Friday 19th May 2017 Total snowfall at base so far 954cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 68 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 72cm (14th January) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2016 snowfall 144cm reported on 14 days January 2017 snowfall 470cm reported on 21 days February 2017 snowfall 267cm reported on 19 days March 2017 snowfall 71cm reported on 13 days April 2017 snowfall 0cm May 2017 snowfall 0cm |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Yuzawa. 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.