Today is officially the first day of the ski season in the town. That's because Kagura is opening this morning.

It is a dry morning with quite a lot of cloud, though the sun is trying breaking through at times.

Welcome back to the Yuzawa Now reports.

Yesterday ended up being the last day of the season for Kagura - and therefore the region. So that's it for 2019-2020.

TODAY (Friday 17th April) is going to be the last day of the season.

Kagura is still requesting folks from areas outside Niigata Prefecture (covered by the government emergency declaration) to refrain from 'unnecessary and urgent' visits.

There was some windy conditions up at Kagura yesterday with the Tashiro area closing.

We didn't get much of a clear up yesterday. In fact, there were still spots of rain around in the evening... it was quite cold too.

Yesterday was a fine day. Today will also be a fine day with sunny skies from early morning.

It was quite chilly yesterday and while there was some sun at times there was also some very light snow falling in places.

The sun is out again this morning with blue skies and a kind of hazy feel. Definitely another warm spring day lined up.

From today just Naeba, GALA Yuzawa and Kagura remain open.

It continued snowing during the morning yesterday and eased off for the afternoon.

This morning, there's 10-15cm of fresh snowfall on the ground in town and the Kagura resort is reporting 25cm.