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Ski Resorts in Tochigi
Tochigi has 3 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 2 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 1675 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 Tochigi
The 3 ski areas in Tochigi get 193 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 16th of the 29 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Nikko Yumoto Onsen Ski Park at 214 cm, 246th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 72% of January. That is a gentler fall than the national median of 57%. March brings 44 cm here, about the same as the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 13% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −6.5°C, and 12 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is less rain than the national median of 16%, and it is colder than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Nikko Yumoto Onsen Ski Park, 69th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 130 cm.
All ski areas in Tochigi
In order of typical snowfall. Press a column heading to re-sort.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Top | Runs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikko Yumoto Onsen Ski Park top 1,675 m · 4 runs | 214 cm | #69 | 1,675 m | 4 |
| 2 | Edelweiss Ski Resort top 1,476 m · 16 runs | 193 cm | #171 | 1,476 m | 16 |
| 3 | Hunter Mountain Shiobara Ski Area top 1,602 m · 1 runs | 193 cm | #167 | 1,602 m | 1 |
Ski area webcams in Tochigi
2 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 Tochigi
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Tochigi (up to 24 km).
With only 3 ski areas in Tochigi, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Marunuma Kogen Ski Resort in Gunma, about 6 km away. The snowiest of these is Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort in Fukushima at 322 cm a season, about 1.5 times as much as Nikko Yumoto Onsen Ski Park, the snowiest in Tochigi (214 cm).
Onsen towns in Tochigi
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