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Japan Weekly Snow Roundup #298
Weekly Snow News for Japan, updated 21 January 2026: Japan leads global snowfall again, with 1m (40") in 72 hours on Hokkaido and heavy, cold powder spreading into Honshu.
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Nozawa Onsen at 565 m altitude
Issued by Snow-Forecast.com at: 8 pm (local time) / 21 Jan 2026
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heavy snow | light snow | light snow | snow shwrs | snow shwrs | light snow | light snow | light snow | heavy snow | heavy snow | mod. snow | light snow | heavy snow | snow shwrs | cloudy | some clouds | |
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26 | 4 | 3 | 4 | — | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 1 | — | — | |
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max °C | -5 | -5 | -5 | -9 | -2 | -2 | -4 | -1 | -1 | -5 | -5 | -5 | -6 | -3 | -3 | -6 |
min °C | -7 | -7 | -7 | -10 | -5 | -6 | -6 | -2 | -4 | -6 | -5 | -7 | -7 | -5 | -7 | -7 |
-15 | -14 | -12 | -14 | -9 | -8 | -10 | -7 | -9 | -10 | -13 | -15 | -15 | -9 | -7 | -7 | |
95 | 91 | 86 | 85 | 72 | 74 | 87 | 86 | 90 | 97 | 94 | 93 | 95 | 87 | 80 | 75 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 250 | 0 | 200 | 300 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
 | — | 6:54 | — | — | 6:54 | — | — | 6:54 | — | — | 6:54 | — | — | 6:52 | — | — |
 | — | — | 4:59 | — | — | 5:00 | — | — | 5:00 | — | — | 5:01 | — | — | 5:04 | — |
Next 0-3 days weather summary:
A heavy fall of snow, heaviest during Sat afternoon. Temperatures will be below freezing (max -1°C on Sat morning, min -10°C on Thu night). Wind will be generally light.
Next 4-6 days weather summary:
A heavy fall of snow, heaviest during Sat night. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 1°C on Tue morning, min -7°C on Sun afternoon). Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the WNW on Sun afternoon, calm by Mon afternoon).
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Nozawa Onsen Snow Conditions
| Top snow depth: | 195 cm |
|---|---|
| Bottom snow depth: | 70 cm |
| Fresh snowfall depth: | 34 cm |
| Last snowfall: | 20 Jan 2026 |
| Snow Alerts | Create Alert |
Other resorts in Japan - Nagano are reporting: powder (3) / good piste (3)
Snow History
Week 3 of January has on average:
0.3 | Bluebird Powder days Fresh snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
|---|---|
3.6 | Powder days Fresh snow, limited sun, any wind. |
0.2 | Bluebird days Average snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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The above table gives the weather forecast for Nozawa Onsen at the specific elevation of 565 m. Our sophisticated weather models allow us to provide snow forecasts for the top, middle and bottom ski stations of Nozawa Onsen. To access the weather forecasts for the other elevations, use the tab navigation above the table. For a wider view of the weather, check out the Weather Map of Japan.
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Visitor Reviews of Nozawa Onsen
Overall 4.1 Based on 35 votes and 14 reviews
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- Peter from United States writes:
Nozawa is growing up. While the ratio of Japanese visitors to international visitors in the winter is fairly constant (70:30ish), there's increasingly more of the services that inbound guests want. There are several places to get excellent coffee, breadcentric breakfasts, etc, and the accommodation base in the village is gradually being upgraded. But this remains a real working mountain village (3,600 residents year-round) that just happens to have an Olympic-quality ski field. It feels much more like a small European resort (think Lech, Gstaad, or its twin, St. Anton), although culturally you're absolutely aware that you're in Japan. There's been a ski resort here for over 100 years so the snow and mountain management is world class. The village continues to invest and will replace the main gondola over the next two years. After the opening of the new shinkansen a few years ago, it's just over two hours from Tokyo so much more accessible than it used to be. The green season is picking up, with a lot of winter athletes training on the artificial slope, as well as mountain bikers rubbing shoulders with the regular guests looking for cool weather, local food/sake/beer and onsen.
Visitor Reviews of Nozawa Onsen
Peter from United States writes:
Nozawa is growing up. While the ratio of Japanese visitors to international visitors in the winter is fairly constant (70:30ish), there's increasingly more of the services that inbound guests want. There are several places to get excellent coffee, breadcentric breakfasts, etc, and the accommodation base in the village is gradually being upgraded.
But this remains a real working mountain village (3,600 residents year-round) that just happens to have an Olympic-quality ski field. It feels much more like a small European resort (think Lech, Gstaad, or its twin, St. Anton), although culturally you're absolutely aware that you're in Japan. There's been a ski resort here for over 100 years so the snow and mountain management is world class.
The village continues to invest and will replace the main gondola over the next two years. After the opening of the new shinkansen a few years ago, it's just over two hours from Tokyo so much more accessible than it used to be. The green season is picking up, with a lot of winter athletes training on the artificial slope, as well as mountain bikers rubbing shoulders with the regular guests looking for cool weather, local food/sake/beer and onsen.
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