The forecasted sunny spells have yet to arrive, but, hopefully later on (currently foggy down to base albeit the bottom of the Zao Ropeway appears to be clearer.

Lower down from base the sun is in and out of the clouds which are constantly drifting across.

Still foggy down to base and today is cold (about -10C at base). Although the snow is light, it is accumulating, albeit not a huge amount.

Pretty much the same as yesterday which only started to clear partially near the end of the afternoon. The fog is right down to base.

At time of writing, you couldn't get it any better after more fresh snow yesterday afternoon and post-grooming with blue skies all around.

Another powder day and more or less the same conditions as yesterday.

The light rain yesterday morning did indeed turned to snow around midday. Nice powder on the slopes this morning.

It was positively arctic conditions first thing this morning, however, the sun is now out and the winds have died down.

Well it really hit last night with snow storms being experienced across the western side of Japan.

Snowy and windy conditions this morning.

The forecast says sunny spells and the sun is indeed battling to break through the cloud cover.

Whoo hoo, lots of new snow today.

The forecast says sunny spells and indeed it was - for the first hour of the day.

Aargh, we need more snow! The ground is hard with nodules of ice strewn about with some ice burns.