Shin-Kashi Onsen — Snowfall and Nearby Ski Areas
新甲子温泉 · Fukushima
Shin-Kashi Onsen (新甲子温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Fukushima. We measured how much snow its winters bring, using the same method as for the 3,069 ski areas on this site.
How this place came to be
This place exists because water was piped down from somewhere else. The original spring, Kashi Onsen, is said to have been found in 1384 by a monk named Shuan; the year fell on kinoe-ne in the sexagenary cycle, and the characters for that became the spring's name. In 1961 the water was carried about five kilometres down the valley, and the settlement at that end is Shin-Kashi — New Kashi.
It sits at roughly 800 m among old-growth beech and oak, near the headwaters of the Abukuma river. On the road from Shin-Kashi up to Kashi stands a great katsura tree called the Ken-katsura, the Sword Katsura — a demon was sealed inside it with a sword, the story goes. Every year in late April a straw rope is hung on it in a small ceremony.
The Yukiwari bridge over the gorge is named for the way the valley looks in winter, as though the snow had been split open. This is the doorway to Tohoku: under two hours from Tokyo.
Sources: 環境省 新甲子温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 72 cm |
| Against the median of 77 | -46 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 63 cm 45–108 cm, leanest to deepest of twelve |
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More places to look
Just the bath
Day passes for hot springs are sold through Asoview. Japanese only.
The list covers the whole prefecture — it cannot be narrowed to this town.
Worth seeing nearby
Places within 20 km of this onsen town, chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Komine Castle白河小峰城 | Historic site | 5.3 km |
| Auschwitz Peace Museum Japanアウシュヴィッツ平和博物館 | Museum | 5.9 km |
| Nanko Park南湖公園 | Park | 6.7 km |
| Shirakawa Barrier白河の関 | Historic site | 12.4 km |
| Sesshō-seki殺生石 | Nature | 14.5 km |
| Mount Nasu那須岳 | Mountain | 18.2 km |
Based on the Japanese Wikipedia lists of sights in each prefecture, as compiled in travel-log-data (CC BY-SA 4.0). English names from Wikidata (CC0). The content of this section is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ski areas nearby
Up to five within 40 km, straight-line, nearest first. Quality rank is out of the 397 Japanese ski areas.
| Ski area | Distance | Quality rank |
|---|---|---|
| Grandee Hatoriko Ski Resort | 14 km | 135 of 397 |
| Ski Resort Tenei | 21 km | 244 of 397 |
These snowfall figures are estimates
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 considered correcting the figures against the observations. But this ranking covers 3,069 ski areas across ten countries, and only Japan can be checked against weather stations. Correcting Japan alone would lift Japanese resorts above the Alps and North America with nothing behind it. Every place here is measured the same way instead.
Where a nearby weather station can be used, we print what it actually recorded on that ski area's own page.