Hello and good morning from Nozawa.

Some fresh snow to report to start February off. The resort reports 25cm of fresh on the top Yamabiko area with 10-15cm on lower areas.

It's a cold start to the morning too with decent visibility in most areas, bit limited on the top. Snow forecast for today, easing off as the afternoon goes on.

OK so how's the forecast for the weekend shaping up? Well, currently it seems we can probably expect some cloud/sun tomorrow and then a warming up with temps nudging up a bit too high for comfort on Sunday. But hopefully it will be short lived and we'll be back to cold come Monday. And while we might get more snow on Monday, we should expect some rain before the snow.

So I would say that the pick of the weekend is going to be Saturday...

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Friday 1st February 2019

Fresh snowfall reported by the ski resort (since yesterday morning):

- Yamabiko (1407m): 25cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 11cm
- Hikage (660m): 15cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 15cm
- Karasawa (563m): 10cm

Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):

- Yamabiko (1407m): 335cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 295cm
- Hikage (660m): 210cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 200cm
- Karasawa (563m): 165cm

All lifts apart from the following planned to be operating:

- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair (open for general public on 12th Feb and 1st Mar 2019)

All courses open apart from the following planned to be open:

- Grand Prix
- Kamoshika (part)
- Kandahar (open for general public on 12th Feb and 1st Mar 2019)

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Lift operation times until end of March:

Nagasaka Gondola - until 4:00pm (time of last one down)
Hikage Gondola - until 4:20pm (time of last one down)
Yamabiko Number 2 Four - until 4:10pm
Skyline connecting pair - until 4:30pm
Base lifts - until 5:00pm
Yu Road - until 5:10pm