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Ski Resorts in Toyama
Toyama has 4 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 1160 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 Toyama
The 4 ski areas in Toyama get 425 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 3rd of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area at 682 cm, 15th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 41% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 63 cm here, more than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 48% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.3°C, and 35 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 Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area, 165th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 298 cm.
All ski areas in Toyama
In order of typical snowfall. Press a column heading to re-sort.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Top | Runs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area top 1,160 m · 11 runs | 682 cm | #165 | 1,160 m | 11 |
| 2 | Awasuno Ski Area top 835 m · 4 runs | 425 cm | #185 | 835 m | 4 |
| 3 | IOX-AROSA top 775 m · 9 runs | 314 cm | #283 | 775 m | 9 |
| 4 | Tonami Yumenotaira Ski Ground top 503 m · 3 runs | 218 cm | #342 | 503 m | 3 |
Compare the top three (Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area, Awasuno Ski Area, IOX-AROSA) →
Ski area webcams in Toyama
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 Toyama
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Toyama (up to 35 km).
With only 4 ski areas in Toyama, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Kanazawa Municipal Ski Resort in Ishikawa, about 5 km away. The snowiest of these is SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort in Ishikawa at 526 cm a season, less than Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area, the snowiest in Toyama (682 cm).
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 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