Ski Resorts in Okayama

Okayama has 3 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 3 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 854 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.

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Where It’s Snowing

Resorts with 3cm+ of snow in the last 48 hours. A ❄ marks anything over 15cm.

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2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort — Live camera 🎥 Ibukinosato Ski Area — Live camera 🎥 Ski & Board Resort Tsuguro Kogen — Live camera 🎥

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Snow in Okayama

Typical snowfall 134 cm #20 of 31 prefectures
Rain days 28% Japan 16%
Temp when snowing −1.9 °C Japan −3.5 °C
Days over 5 cm 8 a winter · Japan 18

The 3 ski areas in Okayama get 134 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 20th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 268 cm. The snowiest is Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort at 192 cm, 285th in Japan.

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 39% 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 16 cm here, less than the national median of 45 cm.

On the quality of what falls: 28% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.9 °C, and 8 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is more rain than 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 Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort, 339th of 395 in Japan.

27cm Dec
41cm Jan
33cm Feb
16cm Mar
Snowfall by month (prefecture median, last 11 winters)

All ski areas in Okayama

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 Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort 192 cm #339 10 0 cm 0 cm 18.8 ℃ 🎥
2 Ski & Board Resort Tsuguro Kogen 134 cm #371 10 0 cm 0 cm 19 ℃ 🎥
3 Ibukinosato Ski Area 129 cm #364 10 0 cm 0 cm 18.5 ℃ 🎥

Ski areas near Okayama

Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Okayama (up to 24 km).

With only 3 ski areas in Okayama, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Kagamiganaru Ski Area in Tottori, about 10 km away. The snowiest of these is Kagamiganaru Ski Area in Tottori at 221 cm a season, about 1.2 times as much as Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort, the snowiest in Okayama (192 cm).

Onsen towns in Okayama

Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.

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

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