Welcome back to Nozawa Now

It is a fine and sunny Wednesday morning with some cloud hanging around. It's also the last day of the Golden Week holidays and the last day of the official ski season here in Nozawa Onsen.

Is it really "Golden Week"?!? Certainly doesn't feel like it with the weather we have got this time round.

We got through the nasty weather yesterday and the ski area is opening up again this morning.

The ski area will be closed today, due to strong winds.

Golden Week greetings from Nozawa.

It's the weekend before Golden Week and we are less than two weeks away from the planned closing date (last day of Golden Week on 6th May).

A more cloudy kind of morning with some rain expected later in the day. We should be back to clearer skies tomorrow and Friday.

Warm conditions over the weekend with temps rising over 20C, and more warmth due today.

The sun is out and it's a fine (and kind of hazy) spring morning across the region.

After being closed yesterday due to weather, back open today.

It was wet yesterday but even down at base we can see how snow almost reached village level.

The sun is out this morning.

Hello from Nozawa Onsen and we're now officially in the last section of the season.