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[joshnii]

In the local paper, about numbers of skiers and snowboarders this season.

Shiozawa town - down 18% on last season.
Yuzawa town - down 15% on last season (but for the month of March 3% up on last year)
Muikamachi/Yamato town - down 14% on last season.

Naeba - down 13%

Iwappara - down 8%

Ishiuchi - down 12%

Joetsu Kokusai resort - apparently the victim of some nasty rumors on the internet about big damage because of the earthquake - down 24%.

[happyhappy]

Nasty rumors - know more about that?

[Frinkelbean]

Apparently, February and March were pretty decent for the area probably to do with the snowfall.

[SJ-Andrew]

Thats what we have heard as well. (We will be putting together some stats articles fairly soon.)

[Mr Wiggles]

Seasonwise most places will be down due to the late start. There was no snow until just before the holiday period.

[Toque]

And it didn't really get good until the end of the holiday period

[SJ-Andrew]

Got the Yuzawa numbers here now. Sneak preview (full details will be in a feature coming in May).

Figures are for Yuzawa Town (all of the resorts in Yuzawa together) and skier/snowboard number % compared with the previous year.

November 04 - 67.6%
December 04 - 63.3%
January 05 - 91.3%
February 05 - 87.5%
March 05 - 103.5%

[DumbStick]

So it doesn't look like the earthquake had quite the disasterous results people were dreading then, once January rolled round.

[happyhappy]

The bumper snow surely had a pretty positive effect on things.

[echineko]

Did some people here not going Niigata because of earthquake?