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Ski Resorts in Shimane
Shimane 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 1213 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Ski area map
No snow marks yet. The dots are ski areas; once it starts snowing, places with 3cm+ in 48 hours get a mark.
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Snow in Shimane
The 3 ski areas in Shimane get 125 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 19th of the 29 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area at 129 cm, 349th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 33% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 15 cm here, less than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 29% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.7°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 Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area, 356th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 63 cm.
All ski areas in Shimane
In order of typical snowfall. Press a column heading to re-sort.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Top | Runs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area top 703 m · 7 runs | 129 cm | #356 | 703 m | 7 |
| 2 | Osa Ski Resort top 934 m · 9 runs | 125 cm | #371 | 934 m | 9 |
| 3 | Mizuho Highland top 1,213 m · 13 runs | 102 cm | #375 | 1,213 m | 13 |
Compare the top three (Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area, Osa Ski Resort, Mizuho Highland) →
Ski area webcams in Shimane
3 ski areas, those with a camera on the slopes first. Each name opens the camera section of that ski area's page.
Ski areas near Shimane
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Shimane (up to 39 km).
With only 3 ski areas in Shimane, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Utopia Saioto in Hiroshima, about 6 km away. The snowiest of these is Yawata Highland 191 Resort in Hiroshima at 125 cm a season, about the same as Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area, the snowiest in Shimane (129 cm).
Onsen towns in Shimane
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
Snowfall is the 12-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 12 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure