It has snowed all night in Nozawa and we are happy to welcome back the 'magic foot' with around 30cm of fresh snow falling overnight.

So after some deep winter-like conditions early on we have bounced back in to a warm spell the last few days in Nozawa.

Lovely weather conditions this morning. The sun is out and blue skies above.

Another 5cm or so of snow since yesterday at Nozawa as the snow clouds moved back in later on yesterday.

Another 10cm or so of snow to add to the tally since the last report on the top runs, 5cm or so on the lower runs, as the snow tally mounts up nicely.

The heavy snowfall has eased off somewhat today and we have had perhaps 10cm or so up on Yamabiko since yesterday and just slight snowfalls lower down.

That storm we were expecting might have been delayed, but we sure got what we wanted out of it yesterday and overnight.

Uenotaira is open this morning as is the Bunabayashi course, with the Uenotaira Four lift operating this morning in addition to the Nagasaka Gondola and the Yamabiko quads.

No new snow to report this morning and actually the sun is out and doing it's shining thing and we have quite a lot of blue sky to enjoy.

It is a beautiful morning in Nozawa, different from yesterday for sure with that wet stuff falling from the sky.

Nozawa opened yesterday of course and it was a cold and snowy day out there. So snowy in fact that the resort this morning is telling us that they saw 40cm of fresh snow up on Yamabiko since yesterday.

This morning just a few hours ago the first lifts took eager skiers and snowboarders up the mountain for their first Nozawa flavoured slides of the season.

We had more snow yesterday and Nozawa have announced that they are going to open on Saturday 1st December as planned.

Nozawa Onsen ski area is hoping to open on 1st December.