Yuzawa Now: Saturday 28th December 2019
- Dec 28, 2019
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Yuzawa & Minamiuonuma region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 12cm
Snowfall at base this season 37cm
Posted on Saturday 28th December 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Yuzawa Now report can be found here.
Updated at 10:30am; again at 12:30pm
Good morning from Yuzawa.
Hope you saw the update I made yesterday afternoon - if you didn't, do go back and check.
Information is not complete yet this morning, so I'll post an initial report now and update it later on when more information is available.
So, what's the deal this morning?
I am very happy to report we have snow on the ground and it is still snowing. Perhaps not as much as we hoped for (I suppose that was never really going to happen was it... we want 2m!).
Around 10cm or so on the ground around town base areas and 20+cm seem to be being reported by ski resorts. The Tashiro Area of the Kagura resort is reporting 40cm of fresh snowfall.
GALA Yuzawa is reporting 20cm of fresh snowfall at the top Gondola station and from today has 4 courses open in the Chuo Area and might also open part of the Northern Area.
Kandatsu Snow Resort and Yuzawa Kogen are part open sometime this morning.
Yuzawa Nakazato is also part open from this morning.
Maiko Snow Resort and Iwappara have announced that there's not enough to open today, but don't rule out opening tomorrow if there is snowfall during the day today.
Ishiuchi Maruyama are reporting 5-10cm of fresh snowfall at base areas and 20-25cm on upper areas but not enough to open.
The Kids Garden at NASPA Ski Garden is open, but the ski lifts aren't moving yet. But it does appear that NASPA Ski Garden will be part open from tomorrow (Sunday). They plan to have two lifts operating and two courses open.
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Snow is still falling as of 10:15am and due to ease off by the end of the day. (Snowfall and weather conditions noted above remain as they were for my original report).
As I mentioned before the ski resorts will get their lifts moving and courses open as quickly as they can so there may be changes even within today.
I'll do another full scan and update information in the report tomorrow morning.
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Currently at least part open:
GALA Yuzawa
- GALA Yuzawa is now open for skiing and snowboarding
- The Gondola is operating
- Phaeton pair, Sociable quad and Barouche quad lifts are operating
- 4 courses in the Central Area are opening from this morning
- Part of the Northern Area may also open, depending on conditions
Kagura
- The Kagura resort is mostly open
- Both the Mitsumata Ropeway and Tashiro Ropeway bases ropeways are operating
Kandatsu Snow Resort
- Part open from this morning
- A and C lifts plan to be operating
Naeba
- Part open
- You can now ride down from top to base (from 10:00am today)
- Details on Naeba Now report here
Yuzawa Kogen
- Park open
- Yuzawa Ropeway operating
- Cosmos lift, Summit Panorama lifts also operating
Yuzawa Nakazato
- Part open
- Number 2 and 3 Romance pair lifts operating
- Joyful course and Number 3 romance course open
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Other planned opening dates - subject to change depending on weather/snow conditions.
As soon as there is enough snow
- Chateau Shiozawa
- Hakkai Sanroku
- Ipponsugi
- Ishiuchi Hanaoka
- Ishiuchi Maruyama
- Itsukamachi
- Iwappara
- Joetsu Kokusai
- Maiko Snow Resort
- Mt Granview
- Muica Snow Resort
- Muikamachi Hakkaisan
- Nakazato Snow Wood
- NASPA Ski Garden
- Yuzawa Park
Yuzawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Saturday 28th December 2019 Total snowfall at base so far 37cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 7 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 12cm (30th November and 28th December) November 2019 snowfall 12cm reported on 1 day December 2019 snowfall 25cm reported on 6 days |
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.