Yesterday got a bit wild at times. Strong winds during the day even down in town, leaving what was open at Kagura to scale back and eventually close by early afternoon. Late night saw heavy rain falling. Seems that there was heavy rain and bad weather in many areas of Western Japan yesterday.

Anyway the peak of that bad weather is now past us and the rain that was still falling early this morning has stopped this and it's just cloudy and a bit foggy now in Yuzawa. Lots of quite low cloud too but that hopefully will move on improving visibility. It's not as warm after yesterday.

From tomorrow the skies are set to clear and we have a run of fine and sunny days on the forecast.

We're not far off the start of Golden Week now and the weather is often fine and warm for that time of the year (sometimes borderline hot).

Here's how Golden Week is looking this year - there's a run of 5 days holiday from Saturday 2nd May until Wednesday 6th May, with the added bonus of Wednesday next week (29th April) also being a national holiday.

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Official snow depths:
** General opening plans - any unplanned closures will be mentioned in the above report **

GALA Yuzawa:
Official snow depth of 210cm.
The Central Area and most of the North Area.
The South Area is now closed.
The downhill course is also now closed - get down back to base using the Gondola.

Kagura:
Official snow depth of 310cm.
All three main areas of Kagura remain pretty much fully open.

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Planned closing dates for resorts in the Yuzawa and Minamiuonuma region
Information as currently available and of course subject to change depending on conditions. Resorts not mentioned below are now closed.

Open until Wednesday May 6th:

- Naeba (*closed on weekdays, open ONLY on weekends and holidays [except April 29th])
- GALA Yuzawa
- Kagura (Tashiro)

Open until Sunday May 31st:

- Kagura (Mitsumata)