Morning from Hakuba.

A new white coating of (bit heavy) snow down to village overnight with Hakuba 47 reporting up to 20cm of fresh in places and Happo-one also reporting 20cm from the top Kurobishi area.

Head up!

The information in this table is data reported by the ski resorts	New snowfall (lower)	New snowfall (upper)	TOTAL ACCUMULATION (UPPER)
Hakuba 47	5cm	10cm	410cm
Hakuba Cortina	5cm	5cm	480cm
Hakuba Goryu	5cm	10cm	443cm
Hakuba Happo-one	-cm	5cm (Usagidaira) 20cm (Kurobishi)	580cm
IMPORTANT: See below for an explanation of the above data

Cloudy skies due for the day with more snow overnight tonight.

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Individual ski resort information
The below information is checked from official sources and manually adjusted each morning.

Hakuba Happo-one

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Nakiyama Number 2 pair
- Shirakaba Number 1 pair
- Shirakaba Number 2 pair
- Central pair
- Sakka Number 2 pair
- Sakka Number 3 triple

Courses open:
- All courses apart from the following are at least part open:
- Central
- Olympic II
- Kita-one
- Kokusai
- Nakiyama Wall/North
- Shirakaba North
- Sakka
- Nakiyama South and Shirakaba South base areas are open; others closed
- You can also take the Gondola or other lifts back down to base

Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 210cm
- Usagidaira: 135cm
- Nakiyama: 60cm

Hakuba 47

All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Pair Line D (usually only operates when Gondola not operating)

Courses open:
- All main courses now open
- Tree Riding Zones: upper area part open

Official snow depth:
- Top: 180cm
- Base: 60cm

Hakuba Goryu

Operating lifts:
- All lifts are normally operating

Courses open:
- All courses are open now apart from the following:
- Cosmo River
- Straight Whiskey
- Snow Diving
- Adventure

Official snow depth:
- Alps: 190cm
- Toomi: 70cm
- Iimori: 50cm

Tsugaike Kogen

Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 205cm
- Maruyama: 45cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 30cm
- All courses apart from Lower Forest are open (lower Kane-no-naru part open)
- Some restrictions on lower courses
- DBD gates: Gates 1, 2 and 3 open and reporting 25cm of fresh snow

Hakuba Cortina

Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 147cm
- Base: 67cm
- Most courses open

Hakuba Valley Kashimayari

Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 100cm
- Most courses open

Hakuba Norikura Onsen

Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 70cm
- Most courses open

Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field

Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 90cm
- Part open

Hakuba Sanosaka

Official snow depth & info:
- Top: 65cm
- All courses open

Jigatake

- Top: 10cm
- Closed

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Photos today (below):

- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Goryu [base area]
- Hakuba 47
- Tsugaike Kogen [upper Tsuganomori area]
- Tsugaike Kogen [lower Kane-no-naru-oka area]
- Hakuba Iwatake
- Looking towards Hakuba Iwatake and Hakuba Happo-one

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About the data in the above ‘snowfall as reported by ski resorts’ table
* The table within the above report contains data that is published by individual ski resorts
* The data shown is the amount of snowfall that the ski resorts are themselves reporting each 24 hour period on the upper areas of their mountain
* The source ‘new snowfall’ data and ‘total accumulation’ data is not updated at the same time
* The ‘new snowfall’ data is updated in the morning
* The ‘accumulation’ data is apparently updated/refreshed at midnight
* That means that there is a time lag between the two numbers being updated
* We manually check and update the data just before we publish each Hakuba Now report - so the data in each Hakuba Now report table is what is available at that time
* Any odd-looking numbers are due to the source data. We are not responsible for and have no control over the data. We are simply sharing the data with you
* Just to be extra clear, unlike our own ‘observed snowfall’ data from base that we show at the top of each report, the data in the table is not an independent observation by SnowJapan
* A more in-depth introduction and explanation can be found in this report