Welcome to the last day of the season in Hakuba. Yesterday was fairly decent weather for most of the day with a fair amount of cloud up there but some blue sky as well. It's not the most dazzling of starts this morning - very cloudy, fogg and unfortunately a bit wet too.... really poor visibility up on the mountain, and not much of them even visible from the village, so there goes the fine weather for the last day. The forecast for the day is cloud and light rain at times with a high of around 15C.

In the coming days we will post a season wrap-up report on this Hakuba Now page along with more info on plans for summer gondola operations so please look out for that.

Official snow depths and operations @ Sunday 6th May 2012 AM:

Hakuba Goryu:
Gondola and Alps daira No 1-4 lifts all operating. Ride the Gondola to get back down to base. From May 7th, the Gondola will remain open for sightseeing.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 110cm

Hakuba 47:
Only limited areas open now. Ride the Gondola to get back down to base.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 30cm
Lower - 0m

Happo-one:
Parts of top area open - only parts of Panorama and Skyline areas remain open while all lower slopes are all closed. Ride the Gondola to get back down to base.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 90cm

Tsugaike Kogen:
Planned lifts operating are Ropeway, Gondola, Tsuga No2 pair lift and the Hannoki pair. Ride the Gondola to get back down to base.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 137cm

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Today is the last day of the seaason for Hakuba Goryu, Hakuba 47, Happo-one and Tsugaike Kogen.

The Hakuba Cortina, Norikura, Iwatake, Sanosaka and Minekata resorts are already closed for the season.