As colder temperatures return to the region and rain in the village areas, news this morning that the Seki Onsen resort has now apparently closed for the season. They were planning on going on until May 10th, but that now does not seem to be happening. I just called the resort to make sure and the reports seem to be correct.

This leaves us with no ski resorts open today (and tomorrow) but Akakan are still apparently planning to open this coming weekend. They plan to be operating the Myoko Kogen Skycable as well as the Hotel No5 lift with the Hotel A Course open. The resort was saying that they will decide whether they can remain open after this weekend, though with Seki closing and a real lack of decent snowfall remaining, I would think it unlikley. Whatever, I'll bring you the news here.