Good morning from Nozawa on this fine spring morning. Oh wait, it's early January?! ...kind of feeling.

As the forecasts told us, it's a mild start to the day and the sun is shining with lots of blue sky above us. A feel good day at most times, but as has been said quite a bit so far already this season we just need cold blizzard conditions rather than more sun and warmth.

It's going to warm up to maybe 7C today and possibly a bit higher still during the day tomorrow.

Clouds are expected tomorrow and they might bring with them a bit of rain later on in the day before hopefully turning into snow on Tuesday. It should at least be snowing on upper areas of the mountain anyway. There is more lined up for later in the week as well along with colder conditions so there's some hope there.

For the moment, try to forget it's early January and think of it as spring. It makes it easier!

Last day of the New Year holidays for most people today, back to fun Mondays from tomorrow!

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Official info at time of writing on Sunday 3rd January 2016 (subject to change):

Official snow depths:

Yamabiko: 90cm
Uenotaira: 80cm
Hikage: 50cm
Nagasaka: 35cm
Karasawa: 35cm

New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:

Yamabiko: 0cm
Uenotaira: 0cm
Hikage: 0cm
Nagasaka: 0cm
Karasawa: 0cm

All lifts now planned to be operating except:

- Kandahar pair

All courses planned to be open except:

- Lower part of Skyline
- Paradise connection
- Schneider
- Challenge 39
- Hikage no kabe
- Kurokura
- Grand Prix
- Jumping
- Hachiman
- Mukoubayashi
- Kandahar West
- Kandahar East
- Usagi
- Karasawa
- Karasaw connection

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Nozawa Onsen 6 day weather and snow forecast

Nozawa Onsen main resort data