Good morning from Hakuba and I think it's definitely a good one with some decent fresh snow to report from around the mountains.

Lots of cloud around this morning but blue sky to be seen as well and the sun breaking through the clouds in places just now.

Good morning from Hakuba and it's a fairly mild and cloudy start to the day.

It's another relatively mild morning here in Hakuba, with the temperature in village currently just slightly over freezing.

Lots of fresh snow being reported this morning.

By mid morning the remaining clouds over the mountains had all but disappeared leaving us with fantastic scenery, fine blue skies and lots of sunshine.

Lots of fresh snow over the last day or so here in Hakuba.

I'm happy to report snow started falling overnight in Hakuba.

Loads of snow. Oh yes. It's a very good morning from here in Hakuba.

Hello on this middle day of the long weekend here in Japan.

A bit of heavy (omoi) snow up higher yesterday, but it was raining in the village and at lower levels unfortunately with very mild conditions and strong winds.

Around 10cm of fresh snow being reported from around the resorts this morning in Hakuba.

Cold day yesterday with spells of sunshine but lots of cloud remaining over the region.

We're enjoying continued fresh snow conditions here at the moment and it's expected to continue more at least for the rest of today and perhaps easing off tomorrow.