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Nozawa Onsen, Honshu
Nozawa Onsen, located in the northern part of Nagano Prefecture, a classic Japanese ski village offering historic traditional inns and pensions. With a vertical of 1085 meters and over 300 skiable hectares, this resort ranks among the best.
Families and beginners are well looked after with wide-open and gentle slopes throughout the resort. Whilst challenging steep terrain and back-country will keep the advanced skiers and boarders entertained. Nozawa has its own unique mountain culture where tradition and history play a big part of your holiday.
Lift Tickets
Your Ski Express holiday includes a multi
day lift ticket giving you unlimited skiing or
boarding.
Getting there
Closest Intl & Dom Airport: Narita Airport. 1hr
on the Narita Express to Tokyo, runs daily. From
Tokyo Station, take the Shinkansen Nagano
Bullet Train (Asama Shinkansen) that departs
regularly throughout the day, (1hr 30mins),
from Nagano take the Iiyama Line to Iiyama or
to Togari Nozawa Onsen (1hr) and from there a
bus or taxi to Nozawa Onsen. There are also a
few direct buses from Nagano Station.
Dosojin Fire Festival
Nozawa's most famous destival, held on Januray 15th every year, is a must see cultural experience. Here fire eruots in a designated area of the village where thousands gather to celebrate and pray for the well being and good fortune of the village, and to ensure a plentiful harvest for the coming year. This festival begins in the early evening and rages through most of the night with fire, food, Japanese sake and good cheer being the main focus of the evening.
Hot Springs
First discovered in the 8th century, Nozawa Onsen's wealth of natural hot springs are just the right place to relax, rest and rejuvenate. With over 30 natural baths in the village, the Japanese have been coming here year round for centuries to reap the therapeutic benefits.
Near the centre of the village, Nozawa has one unique spring called "Ogma", used daily by local cillagers as an open kitchen to cook and boil their mountain vegetables and egges. This is a great to see and experience some of the local customs.
Nozawa Onsen Mountain Statistics
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