Ski Resorts in Aomori
Aomori has 9 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 9 of them with an official live camera. None of them are holding snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. The highest terrain on file reaches about 1069 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Where It’s Snowing
Resorts with 3cm+ of snow in the last 48 hours. A ❄ marks anything over 15cm.
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Snow in Aomori
The 9 ski areas in Aomori get 319 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 9th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 268 cm. The snowiest is Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area at 445 cm, 75th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 43% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 55%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 36 cm here, less than the national median of 45 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 18% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −2.3 °C, and 20 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). Rain is close to the national median of 16%, and it is warmer than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area, 26th of 395 in Japan.
All ski areas in Aomori
The season has not started, so these are in order of typical snowfall.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Powder Score | Base depth | Snow 48h | Temperature | Live Cameras | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area | 445 cm | #26 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 16.1 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Moya Hills | 418 cm | #106 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Aomori Spring Resort | 344 cm | #124 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 16.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 4 | Iwakisan Hyakuzawa Ski Resort | 344 cm | #156 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 17.2 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 5 | Kase Ski Area | 319 cm | #299 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 19.8 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 6 | Owani Onsen Ski Resort International Area | 267 cm | #206 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.7 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 7 | Yogoshiyama Ski Area | 260 cm | #344 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 8 | Makado Onsen | 212 cm | #345 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.2 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 9 | Soyumura 229 Ski Land | 185 cm | #324 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 17.2 ℃ | 🎥 |
Onsen towns in Aomori
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
Deep snow close to a city
Ski areas averaging 300 cm or more, by straight-line distance from the nearest large city.
Snowfall is the 3-winter average from the ERA5 reanalysis, and the model runs low on mountain snow, by different amounts in different regions (the regional map on the Japan page adds that difference back; the figures on this page do not). Read the ranks and the comparisons rather than the centimetres. The month-by-month pattern uses the last 11 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure