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Base up top: 390 cm    Temp Top; +1 Degrees Base at bottom; 200 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Clear   Its an undeniably beautiful spring day in Nozawa Onsen. Clear skies, sunshine; great spring conditions all round. The snow yesterday turned out to be exceptional yesterday, very fast and slightly slushy; we should look forward to similar quality today. Groomed runs will be the pick all day with carving skis and boards remaining a good choice, although the park will also be very good. Look out for slope style training on the paradise course on an intriguing looking park. Hopefully it remains set up after the competition, set to kick off on Sunday. Looking at the […]

Base up top: 395 cm    Temp Top; +2 Degrees Base at bottom; 205 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Partly cloudy   Very interesting weather in Nozawa Onsen today. The rainfalls over the past 36 hours has created some steamy tropical valley fog which dissipates above 1200m. With clear and sunny skies up top that classic cloud sea is occurring when view from up high. Should be good photographic potential for anyone with a camera. The skiing today will probably be ok, far better than yesterday at least. Its possible that the groomers will be faster by comparison. Otherwise the snow is wet and heavy across the mountain. Conditions should improve as the freezing level gradually declines […]

Base up top: 415 cm    Temp Top; +5 Degrees Base at bottom; 220 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Clear   Its possibly the warmest the warmest day of the season so far with the temperature earmarked to ascend upwards of 15C in the shade down at village level. Sunburn, goggle tans and t-shirt skiing weather is on the cards for today. Hard to imagine but exactly one week ago we awoke to 40cm of pow and extreme cold. Conditions can change fast at this time of the year in the Japanese high country. Nevertheless, many people are looking forward to a great day of skiing in the warm sun. The groomed runs will be the pick, […]

Base up top: 420 cm    Temp Top; +4 Degrees Base at bottom; 220 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Clear   Its already a very warm sunny morning in the village of Nozawa Onsen. With a mid teen top temperature in the village later the feel of spring is well and truly here, temporarily at least. The skiing and boarding to day will be very slushy and hopefully not too sticky. Warm weather wax and sunscreen will be the choice items of the day. Yesterday we also had quite a warm sunny day. The skiing was ok, slushy and sticky in parts however the spectacular views and light crowds made it an enjoyable day all round. The […]

Base up top: 430 cm Temp Top; 4 Degrees Base at bottom; 220 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Clear Looks like potentially one of the most epic weeks of the season has finally drawn to a close today. Not to worry as we are currently experiencing some beautiful spring weather, warm with beautiful sunshine and clear views. Of course, the snow is still here too however the quality could be best described slushy, not the dry powder we have recently been lucky enough to ride in. Fun skiing and boarding will be on offer on the groomed pistes of Nozawa Onsen today. Looking at the forecast we are due for an extended period of sunny warm weather […]

Base up top: 440 cm    Temp Top; -4 Degrees Base at bottom; 225 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Clear   The world renowned Nozawa Onsen top to bottom downhill race took off during the early hours of this morning with a scintillating field of contenders flooding the village from all areas of the globe. With firm and fast snow conditions, the field made the short work of the one hundred meters dash to the strap in point at the top of the slopes. Light winds established a quick split of skiers and boarders and it was clear those who put much effort in their waxing held a high advantage in this regard. The lightning fast velocity […]

Base up top: 445 cm    Temp Top; -7 Degrees Base at bottom; 225 cm New Snow since close: 10-15 cm Weather; Clear   Continuing on the trend of excellency this week we have had a further top up of 10-15cm overnight. Looks like we will have yet another day of epic pow. It is the weekend so expect crowds to be slightly higher than what we have had this week however the sun is well and truly out; there is beautiful clear weather up top. Good compensation in this regard. Today will be the last day for some time with mid winter style snow. From tomorrow we should expect a gradual but dramatic increase in the freezing level spiralling […]

Welcome the New Shinkansen Train The long awaited Shinkansen Train running from Tokyo to nearby Iiyama starts tomorrow 14th of March 2015! There is an air of excitement in the village, the Nozawa Onsen Liner has already started doing the 20-minute run down to the Iiyama Station and all is set to go down there. The faster Bullet trains will be 1 Hour and 40 minutes from Tokyo or Ueno Station to Iiyama so looking at just over 2 hours all up to get to Nozawa Onsen! Here is a link to the timetables Getting To Nozawa Onsen With still almost 450cm of snow and the season running until May 6th the decision to come up for a ski holiday […]

Base up top: 445 cm    Temp Top; -7 Degrees Base at bottom; 250 cm New Snow since close: dusting Weather; Mostly fine   How can it still be so good? After the lacklustre final 10 days of winter many had given up hope of fresh snow of enough significance to improve riding conditions back to mid winter levels. In this case patience has paid off and we are currently experiencing one of the best weeks of the season, mostly facilitated by the entire lack of crowds. Yesterday was extremely good, certainly one of the best days of the season, deep dry powder that was effortless the glide through in combination with sun between the drifting snow clouds. Just perfect. […]

Base up top: 440 cm    Temp Top; -8 Degrees Base at bottom; 230 cm New Snow since close: 3-10 cm Weather; Snow   Its still coming down here in Nozawa Onsen. Looking out the window this morning will incite no shortage of excitement for powder enthusiast with persistent moderate snow accumulating 10cm of fresh since last lifts yesterday. The word of the day today will be ‘epic’. Yesterday we saw some superb conditions, certainly the best in recent memory, probably since mid February at least. Deep but not bottomless powder snow blanketed the resort once more creating a blank canvas to work upon. The snow was in excellent conditions all day with cold temperatures and light to moderate winds. […]