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Lodge Of the Week in Nozawa Onsen – Nozawa Onsen Guest House Pearl Lodge Nozawa Onsen Guest House – just 100m to the lifts, awesone friendly local hosts. This little lodge located below the Karasawa slopes in Nozawa is a simple local Japanese lodge with perfect hosts and a warm welcome. The Yoshigoe family runs the lodge and there are 3 generations involved in the business. Masuko san the grandmother is the heart and soul of the business and will charm you off your feet from your first meeting. Together with Mum Atsuko san, her husband and daughter you will be well taken care of while staying in Nozawa Onsen. Facilities – Nozawa Onsen Guest House Rooms, all guest rooms […]

Snovember Nozawa Onsen Snow Report Farmers busy as the snow creeps lower in Nozawa Onsen! Waking up to a wintery day in Nozawa with fresh snow falling all the way down to just above the village overnight and more snowfalls expected today. Hovering just above 0 degrees in the town and – 6 degrees up at Yamabiko! Some sunshine expected tomorrow ahead of a “ Magic Foot” of snow expected on Saturday night, with cold temps and more snow expected for Sunday and Monday. Things look set to remain chilly and that base should hold now and hopefully remain for the season. Even more exciting is the longer range forecast which is predicting another 30cm plus dump from next Thursday night […]

Snowfall Snow-forecast Nozawa Onsen November It’s beginning to look a lot like we could be in for a White Christmas in Nozawa this year maybe even a whole month early! This shot taken at nearby Ryuoo Ski Park this morning ,there they are using the snow guns to add some man made snow to the naturally forming base there at current. The Resort are feeling confident that can open in just over 10 days on the 25th of November! Nozawa Onsen usually has the problem of too much snow most of the season so we don’t yet employ the use of snow guns at the resort. They did experiment a little with them last season with the thought of getting […]

  First Turns of Season Nozawa Onsen First turns of the season have been laid in Nozawa! Waking up to mountains surrounded in white this morning in Nozawa and a beautiful crisp Winters day. We did have a bit of snow on the ground up top yesterday but this morning looks like a bit more and can see white all the way down to Paradise this morning. Beautiful to see can check it out on the web cams here https://www.nozawaholidays.com/snow-cams/ Local gun skier Shogo san was pretty excited to see the first snow of the season hit so raced up to be the one to make the most of the dusting and lay down the first turns of this winter. […]

  Nozawa Onsen Ski Resort Opening Date Winter 2017/18 Drumroll please! Fresh off the press the Resort plans to open up for the ski season from November 25th 2017 as usual a Saturday. That is less than a month away! It is ofcourse dependent on Mother Nature delivering the goods on the snow front. After 26 seasons to be honest I am not totally confident it will happen. But you never know… A while back we often had enough snow by then but unfortunately with Global Warming I feel that the seasons are getting pushed back a little. So get out of your car and get on your bike or walk to wherever you are going and do your bit […]

Visitors to Nozawa can finally make Shinkansen reservations on line! One of the big questions we often get from people traveling up to Nozawa is can we book the Bullet Train before we arrive? Which is understandable as coming from overseas and want to be sure you have all organised. Up until now this has not really been possible. There were a few sites that attempted to do it but never really got it right. Book Bullet Train Nozawa Tokyo Japan So we just suggested that people should do it at the first JR station they got to when arrived in Japan. There are very frequent trains traveling between Tokyo and nearby Iiyama so it has not really been a […]

  Ryuoo Ski Park near Nozawa Onsen Snowy scenes from around Nozawa – Ryuoo Ski Park Some nice white photos drifting in from yesterday after the dustings we got at higher elevations in the area. This shot nearby Ryuoo Park with its winter blanket intact looks almost like you could take a run but pretty sure it is just a thin layer there at this stage. The Forecast is for it to warm up a bit today and the freezing level to jump back up above 3000m where it will stay most of the week. A bit of rain expected tomorrow and Sunday before another cold front hits and some more dustings of snow expected from Sunday night. Anyway not […]

Later Season Nozawa Onsen Ski Japan Something snow filled to fill your Sunday from Nozawa. As you have seen from the last few days reports Mother Nature has dropped the temperature dial and delivered some sprinkles of the white gold across parts of Japan which is an awesome start. Things can change pretty fast at this time of year and we have the tail end of the typhoons still swinging thru the region. Typhoon Lan is expected to dump about 200mm of rain on us today! Not raining yet though so it may pass by all going well. So will we have an early snow season this year in Japan? Hard to tell yet but fingers crossed. The Japan Meterological Agency […]