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December Delight in Nozawa Onsen Japan

by Mark on December 8, 2013

  Base up top: 65 cm        Temp Top; -6 Degrees Base at bottom; 0 cm New Snow since close: 20 cm Weather; Snowed all night and snowing lightly Has been a snowy few days in Nozawa with about 15cm of fresh on the slopes yesterday morning when we went up. Saw a […]

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Base up top: 45 cm Temp Top; -3 Degrees Base at bottom; 0 cm New Snow since close: 10 cm Weather; Beautiful Bluebird Day to start the season Does not seem like that long ago since I was writing the last report. The lifts closed just 6 months ago and today we start the new […]

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Electricity from the Sun in Nozawa

by Mark on December 3, 2013

  In a first for Nozawa Onsen and probably the first ski lodge in Japan Villa Nozawa has installed a 12kw Solar System on the roof! With Japans power challenges and in line with our general philosophy for helping to cool the globe we just had to do it. Lodge Nagano and Kamoshika Lodge are […]

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Winter may not be over yet in Nozawa

by Mark on April 7, 2013

Base up top: 230 cm        Temp Top; 3 Degrees Base at bottom; 40 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Clearing to Sunshine After a bit of a rough few days the sun is peeping out again in Nozawa. The weather has been unseasonably warm and had a feeling we may […]

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Sunny side up in Nozawa

by Mark on April 4, 2013

Base up top: 255 cm        Temp Top; 1 Degree Base at bottom; 55 cm New Snow since close: 0 cm Weather; Clearing to Sunshine After an ordinary day yesterday the sun is breaking thru this morning in Nozawa and we should be in for a few clear days ahead. We got hit […]

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