Another mixed bunch of weather for us today I think. It was snowing lightly earlier, but stopped now. Just cloudy though some breaks in said clouds with a bit of blue sky around. Could it clear up? The forecast is for snow showers from time to time during the day, so we'll just have to see how it develops.

Resort reports up to 10cm on upper slopes this morning with just a dusting lower down.

Tomorrow we have a decent chance of seeing some sun, but later on in the day and into New Years Day we are still looking at a weather system that will come and potentially give us a substantial amount of snow.

It looks like the planned gondola starting time of 8:10 isn't going to happen this morning as they do some kind of work on them and they might get a bit late even. Hopefully they can get to their early time for tomorrow.

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Lift operations for the New Year. On the following days, lifts are scheduled to open 30 minutes earlier than usual with the lower lifts starting at 8am and the Gondolas starting up at 8:10am:

Tuesday 30th December (delay expected today unfortunately)
Wednesday 31st December
Friday 2nd December
Saturday 3rd December

Nighta at the Nagasaka area will be open from 4:30pm until 11:30pm on Wednesday.

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Fresh snow to report this morning since yesterday afternoon:

Yamabiko - 10cm
Uenotaira - 8cm

Official snow depths:

Yamabiko - 290cm
Uenotaira - 255cm
Hikage - 190cm
Nagasaka - 180cm
Karasawa - 170cm

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Courses open:

All courses are now open except:

Grand Prix course
Jumping Course
Mukoubayashi
Challenge 39
Kandahara West
Kamoshika Course

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Lifts open (subject to weather conditions):

All lifts operating

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Night skiing at Nozawa until 8pm on the following dates:

Every Saturday until 28th March
27th December until 4th January

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Nozawa Onsen 6 day weather and snow forecast
Nozawa Onsen main resort data