Good morning from Nozawa and Merry Christmas to everyone. We all wish it was a much whiter Christmas than it is so far, but...

It was rain again overnight and this morning too after a night that remained quite mild.

Temperatures are due to drop from now though and fingers crossed it will soon be snowing down here to base. The forecast is still looking positive for snow today, later tomorrow and through Sunday as well. Maybe into early week. :)

What we need of course is for a Nozawa-like blast of full-on winter to get everything into action. Will we get something like that? Let's see.

The resort is reporting 2cm of fresh on the upper Yamabiko runs this morning and somehow they are managing to open the Paradise course. Which means that there's literally 12km of course open up there now, so quite the area really.

All the best for Christmas and I hope to bring you good snow news tomorrow morning.

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Planned lifts:

- Nagasaka Gondola (from 8:40am)
- Hikage Gondola (from 8:40am)
- Skyline link lift
- Yamabiko Four lift
- Yamabiko Number 2 lift
- Uenotaira
- Yu Road (from 8:30am)

Planned open courses:

- Yamabiko A course
- Yamabiko B course
- Yamabiko C course
- Yamabiko D course
- Yamabiko E course
- Paradise
- Kokenashi
- Uenotaira
- Bunabayashi

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Official snow depths (as of 25th December 2015):

Yamabiko: 30cm (+2cm)
Uenotaira: 30cm (+0cm)
Hikage: 0cm
Nagasaka: 0cm
Karasawa: 0cm

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Nozawa Onsen 6 day weather and snow forecast

Nozawa Onsen main resort data