And so here we are - the last day of the season in Nozawa. Looking at the schedules, it seems the last possible lift to ride would be the Skyline connecting pair which should be closing at 4:20pm, but I might be temped to just get up to the top of Yamabiko at 4pm

It's foggy up there! Yes, fog up on the upper slopes that are open early this morning. Keeping cold as well, with a temperature of just -1C degrees on Yamabiko as of 8am, and 5C in the village.

Yesterday did become a rather warm day in the region, lovely spring conditions.

It's one of those mornings where there's a big difference in the temperatures up top and down in the village.

This morning it's another cold and wintery-like start to the day and there's more snow to report....

You read correctly. 15cm of fresh snow up on the Yamabiko and Uenotaira slopes according to the resort, and we have even got a new coating of snow down at base and in the village as well.

It has been good to see some snow sprinkling down the mountainside once again and the resort reported an impressive 15cm of new snowfall on the top Yamabiko runs this morning.

Lunchtime report on this rather warm day in Nozawa. So warm in fact that the resort has reporting a temperature of +17 degrees at the Hikage area, 12 degrees at Uenotaira and 10 degrees at Yamabiko.

Here we are in April already. Where did the season go?!

It's a bit warmer this morning in Nozawa and another cloudy morning but somewhat brighter than yesterday was.

It started as rain yesterday but was snowing later on and this morning the resort is reporting up to 10cm of snowfall on the upper slopes with just a few cm down on lower slopes and village areas.

Great news this morning. We have had a delivery of fresh powder overnight with 10cm at Yamabiko, 13cm at Uenotaira as of 10am.

It's a very windy one in Nozawa this morning. The strong winds mean that we have limited operations on the mountain this morning with mainly lower lifts and runs only open.

It's a mostly fine morning here in Nozawa Onsen today. We have some high altitude cirrus clouds passing overhead that tend to preceded frontal systems.