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Nozawa Onsen

⛰️ 565–1650 m (1085 m vertical) · 🎟️ ¥7,300 day pass (≈ €45) · 📅 Dec 6 to May 5
🧳 Plan a trip here 🛏️ Beds near the lifts ⏱️ Lift queues 🗺️ Piste map
5.2
Snowlist score

Ratings

❄️ Snow
4.1
⛰️ Terrain
1.6
🚠 Lifts
5.8
⏱️ Queues
4.6
💸 Value
5.6
🍻 Après
0.0
✈️ Access
1.3

Hover a bar to see what goes into it. Scores sit on a bell curve. 6.5 is a normal good resort and 8 or more is unusual. Method.

Key facts

Altitude565–1650 m
Vertical drop1,085 m
Pistes advertised50 km
Pistes mapped on OSM0 km
Lifts (mapped near village)0 · 40% gondola/4+ chair
Day pass¥7,300
Passesnone
Avg snowfall (mid)6.4 m / season
Nearest airportNRT · 240 min

Snow & weather updated 1 h ago

Fresh 24 h
0 cm
Fresh 72 h
2 cm
Next 7 days
0 cm
Snow depth top (model)
0 cm
Now at 1500 m
⛅ 8°
Now at 565 m
14°
Gusts at top
47 km/h
Freezing level
2,870 m

8-day forecast (summit)

Today
⛅
·
-3° / 8°
💨 72
Fri
🌧️
·
7° / 11°
💨 55
Sat
🌦️
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3° / 9°
💨 62
Sun
☁️
·
0° / 3°
💨 55
Mon
🌦️
·
3° / 9°
💨 39
Tue
🌦️
·
2° / 7°
💨 34
Wed
☁️
·
1° / 9°
💨 68
Thu
🌦️
·
6° / 10°
💨 67

Open-Meteo forecast downscaled to 1500 m (summit) and 565 m (base). Rain line ≈ freezing level minus 300 m.

The last three winters at 1108 m

Avg snowfall / season
6.4 m
Powder days (15 cm+)
12
Snowy days
79
Avg temp at base
3°
Average snowfall by month · best: Jan
Nov
40
Dec
163
Jan
179
Feb
152
Mar
105
Apr
5
By season: 2022/23: 6.1 m · 13 powder days2023/24: 5.8 m · 10 powder days2024/25: 7.3 m · 14 powder days

Lift queues

No lifts are mapped on OpenStreetMap around this village yet. Map them and they will show up here after the next rebuild.
Simulate:

Typical week (February, since the resort is closed now)

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14h
15h
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Mon 15
Tue 16
Wed 17
Thu 18
Fri 19
Sat 20
Sun 21
Average predicted wait across lifts. ■ <2 min ■ 4-7 min ■ 11+ min. Hover a day to see why.
How we guess. The model starts from the resort's usual crowd level and adjusts for school holidays (French zones, UK half-term, Presidents' Day, Lunar New Year), weekends, time of day, lift capacity from OpenStreetMap, powder days and summit wind. When skiers on the hill tap a wait time, their reports replace the guess for 45 minutes and the lift shows LIVE.

Map

· Drag to tilt. Tap the map to drop a 📍 and the hotels re-sort by distance to it, handy for ski school or a friend's chalet.

Where to sleep 1 places mapped · 0 ski-in/ski-out

Ski access score: 9.5 means ski-in/ski-out (a piste within 70 m and a lift within 600 m). Each minute of walking to the nearest lift costs about half a point. Distances are straight lines on OpenStreetMap, so add about 30% for the walk.

Pistes

Longest named runs

Après & food

Bars & pubs
0
Clubs
0
Restaurants
0
Mountain huts
0

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Getting there

Nearest major airport: NRT, about 240 min away by road. Directions · Flights