Nozawa Onsen Snow Report 15th January 2019 Fire and snow on the way! Today is the day! The biggest event on Nozawa Onsen’s social calendar takes place tonight. The bonus is that it just so happens to coincide with a double-digit snowfall forecast. In fact, apart from a sunny respite on Thursday morning, there’s snowfall[…]
Sun, Snow & Fire, Nozawa Onsen Snow Report, 13th January 2019 The forecast for this week includes sun, snow & fire for Nozawa Onsen. The present cloudy situation has already begun giving way to sun. We may get the odd snow shower before more sun tomorrow. Tuesday night looks set to involve both snow and[…]
Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival 2019 The Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival is one of Japan’s top three fire festivals and needless to say, a real treat to experience. It is held on January 15th each year to pray for a plentiful harvest, health and good fortune during the year to come. The festival dates back to[…]
Nozawa Onsen Snow Report 11th January 2019 A reoccurring trend of late showed itself again overnight. The amount of actual snowfall outshone the forecast. We’re not complaining about that, of course. Between close yesterday up until 8 am this morning, we were blessed with a further 15 centimetres of snow. This to go with the[…]
Sun & Snow, Nozawa Onsen. Snow Report 9th of January 2019 Life’s all about sun & snow in Nozawa Onsen today. We had quite a bit to wake up to yesterday. In fact, Tuesday evening’s dump was the largest of the season thus far. It looks as though we may get a bit of respite[…]
Nozawa Onsen Snow Report 8th January 2019 We got ourselves 50 centimetres of fresh snow overnight. Half a metre! Down in the village, cars are being slowly reclaimed. Shovels are out. Last night was huge. Everyone’s up early and getting ready to head to the mountain. It will surely be a great day on Mount[…]
Nozawa Onsen Snow Report 7th January 2019 It’s not quite Groundhog Day just yet but today feels a little like yesterday if only because of the 20 centimetres of fresh snow we’ve been gifted up top. Again a lot more snow fell upon Mount Kenashi than was forecast. Not that we’re complaining, of course! It[…]
Nozawa Onsen Snow Report 6th January 2019 The mountain has been blessed with in excess of 20 centimetres of fresh snow overnight. It seems that each time the forecast says some, we get heaps. This makes us wonder what the heapsforecast for Tuesday night will turn into. I guess we’ll just have to wait and[…]
Nozawa Onsen Snow Report 5th January 2019 The image above does its best to illustrate what an awesome day on the mountain it was yesterday. As we well know, however, being here does a better job. After being blessed with a tonne of snow over a few short days, yesterday was all about sunshine and[…]
Nozawa Onsen Snow Report 3rd January 2019 Another Magic Foot overnight, ladies and gents. Or 35cm for those who like our measurements metric and exact. We don’t need to tell you much more about that. We could add that it continues to snow heavily this morning (as of 8 am). All in all, it’s shaping[…]
