Good morning from Nozawa, where the resort are telling us of 26cm of new snowfall on the top runs where the official snow depth is now 130cm.

Nozawa reporting 30cm of fresh snow up top on Yamabiko and 25cm on Uenotaira runs this morning, along with cold -7C temperatures.

More of Nozawa Onsen is open this morning.

12cm of new snow is being reported from the top Yamabiko area of Nozawa Onsen this morning and a cold -6 degrees as of 8am.

Nozawa is reporting 20cm of fresh snowfall on the top Yamabiko runs this morning and a nice cold temperature of -6C, with a snow depth of 65cm.

10cm of fresh snow on the top Yamabiko runs this morning to report from Nozawa.

Good morning from Nozawa and the first day of the 13/14 season.

Hello and welcome back! The resort this afternoon is reporting 40cm of snow up on the top runs of the resort after the snowfall of yesterday.

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.