{"id":76192,"date":"2010-02-21T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-02-21T19:02:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T10:02:35","slug":"skiing-at-nozawa-onsen-hakuba-and-norikura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/skiing-at-nozawa-onsen-hakuba-and-norikura\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiing at Nozawa Onsen, Hakuba and Norikura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/nozawask.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>We have had much snow in ski resorts in and around Matsumoto this season.<br \/>\nI went skiing in Nozawa Onsen on Feb 7 and Hakuba Happo-one on Feb 11.<br \/>\nNozawa Onsen is located in Japan&#8217;s deepest snow area. In the ski resort, the snow was 3.3 meters deep (in 2006, it was 5.2 meters deep!).<br \/>\nFeb 7 was just after heavy snow, so we enjoyed new deep powder snow<img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/suky3.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"absMiddle\" \/><br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/happo.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Hakuba is getting popular among foreigners, especially Australians. We visited a hotel whose owner is also an Australian. We were little surprised that even McDonald&#8217;s exists at the top of the gondola. Hakuba Happo-one, where the Downhill and Super G courses of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics exist, is two hours far from Matsumoto downtown.<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/p1280008.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>In Norikura Snow Resort, which is only one hour far from Matsumoto downtown and also popular for great power snow by high altitude (1500-2000m), an event &#8220;Children Day&#8221; was held today. Under the beautiful blue sky and white peak of Mt. Norikura (3025m) of Japan Alps, many children and parents enjoyed some events including snowmobiling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/skiing-at-nozawa-onsen-hakuba-and-norikura\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/seasonal-topics\/skiing-at-nozawa-onsen-hakuba-and-norikura\/\" data-text=\"Skiing at Nozawa Onsen, Hakuba and Norikura\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had much snow in ski resorts in and around Matsumoto this season. I went skiing in Nozawa Onsen on Feb 7 and Hakuba Happo-one on Feb 11. Nozawa Onsen is located in Japan&#8217;s deepest snow area. In the ski resort, the snow was 3.3 meters deep (in 2006, it was 5.2 meters deep!). Feb 7 was just after heavy snow, so we enjoyed new deep powder snow Hakuba is getting popular among foreigners, especially Australians. We visited a hotel whose owner is also an Australian. We were little surprised that even McDonald&#8217;s exists at the top of the gondola. 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