Seki and Tsubame Onsen
関・燕温泉 · Niigata
Seki and Tsubame Onsen (関・燕温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Niigata. We measured how much snow its winters bring, using the same method as for the 3,108 ski areas on this site.
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 466 cm |
| Rank | 4 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 2 of 4 in Niigata |
| Against the median of 77 | +347 cm median 119 cm |
| Season to season | 117 cm 414–531 cm across three winters |
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How this place came to be
Two springs on the flank of Mount Myoko. They come out of the same mountain in different colours.
Seki, at about 900 m, carries iron. The water leaves the ground clear and turns red-brown in the air. It is credited to Toyoda Gotayu of Sekiyama village in 1729, which makes it the oldest of the Myoko springs.
Tsubame, at about 1,100 m, is the highest in the Myoko group, and its water is white. The name comes from the swallows that used to gather on the rock faces; formal development began in 1875. Two free open-air baths, Kawara-no-yu and Ogon-no-yu, sit above the village.
Both are also credited to Kobo Daishi, as many Japanese springs are. Five minutes apart by car — one red, one white.
Sources: 妙高観光局 妙高高原温泉郷 · 日本温泉協会 国民保養温泉地「関・燕」
Ski areas nearby
Up to five within 40 km, straight-line, nearest first. Quality rank is out of the 395 Japanese ski areas.
| Ski area | Distance | Quality rank |
|---|---|---|
| Seki Onsen Ski Area | 0 km | 31 of 395 |
| Akakura Onsen Ski Area | 1 km | 93 of 395 |
| Akakura Kanko Ski Resort | 1 km | 92 of 395 |
| Kyukamura Myoko | 1 km | 102 of 395 |
| Myoko Suginohara | 4 km | 52 of 395 |
About these snowfall figures
The snowfall shown here is an estimate produced by a weather model, not a record of what actually fell.
We compared it against 63 Japan Meteorological Agency weather stations to see how far off it is. On average it comes to about six tenths of the real figure — it runs low. And it runs low by different amounts in different places: some read barely a third of what was measured, others match almost exactly. Mountains tend to read lowest.
We tried scaling everything up by a fixed amount to correct for it. It barely helped, because the error differs from place to place.
So treat these numbers as a guide to roughly where somewhere sits, not a precise figure. There is no meaning in the gap between first and second, or between 30th and 35th. Large differences between regions are real and can be read as they are.
We are working on replacing these estimates with observed values.