23 24 DAIKURA NOW 0315 Ranking of popular ski resorts in Tohoku
By: だいくらスキー場 · 15 Mar
No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Typical snowfall
340cm
- Elevation
- 836–1,219 m
- Across
- 1.8 km
Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort is a ski area in Fukushima. Compared with Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort, the nearest ski area (7.0 km), it gets 18 cm more snow in a season, and its snowfall days are 1.8°C warmer. More snow, but it tends to be heavier.
Below are links to its official live camera.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
340cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
197cm
A typical winter: 335 cm. The best: 437 cm.
World rank
307
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
111
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
140
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 940 m, 174 m above the national median.
Quality rank
86
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−4.1°C
Japanese median: −3.5°C
Rain days
14%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
22%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
22km/h
Dryness 44
Frequency 64
Freedom from rain 64
Calm when snowing 92
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. The weather model works on cells about 30 km across; ski areas in the same cell get the same figure, and these numbers cannot separate them.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort | 7.0 km | 322 cm | 393 |
| Aizukogen Nango Ski Area | 11.0 km | 394 cm | 184 |
| Aizu Kogen Takahata | 18.0 km | 439 cm | 120 |
| Oze Hinoemata Onsen Ski Resort | 26.0 km | 439 cm | 120 |
| Hunter Mountain Shiobara Ski Area | 30.0 km | 193 cm | 1217 |
Compare side by side with Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort and Aizukogen Nango Ski Area →
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Marked runs
18
Run length
9km
Lifts
6
Vertical
383m
Top 1,219 m · base 836 m
Run map
NoviceIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.2 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 26%
East 73%
South 1%
West 0%
99% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Novice 7 · 3.8 km
Intermediate 5 · 4 km
Advanced 3 · 1 km
Other 3 · 0.2 km
Lift types
- Chairlift5
- Magic carpet1
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 46% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 53 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
94cmDec
116cmJan
77cmFeb
53cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 340 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 197 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 437 cm (2.2 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
307
197
401
357
341
302
367
437
300
329
426
312
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
These snowfall figures are model estimates. On Japanese mountains they come to about 60% of what is actually measured (checked against 63 Japan Meteorological Agency stations). Don't set them beside a resort's own published totals; use them to compare ski areas and read the ranks. How we measure
Live cameras
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Aizu webcams & snow report — all 8 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 24 °C).
Show the sources
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 会津田島鉱泉望月四郎 | 4.1 km | 24℃ cold | — | — | — |
These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.
Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
Worth seeing nearby
Places within 20 km (straight line) of this ski area, for a day off the slopes or an evening. Chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first. Some lie over a mountain pass that is closed in winter.
Show the list
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 駒止湿原 | Mountain | 5 km |
| 南会津町前沢 | Old streets | 13 km |
| Tokusa Onsen木賊温泉 | Hot spring town | 18.1 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.
We have not yet checked the family facilities (kids’ area, childcare, parking, rental) on the official site. See the official site ↗
Places to stay on the map
6 places within 12 km of the slopes, as mapped on OpenStreetMap, including small inns and pensions that are on no booking site. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the name for the website or the map.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
“ad” marks links that pay us a commission if you book. Links without it are not affiliated.
Guides covering Fukushima
- Japan Is Sold on Powder. Measured, It Is the Easiest Big Ski Country to Learn In. Half of Japan's pisted kilometres are graded easy or novice — against 24% in the United States and 28% in Canada. And 255 of Japan's 397 ski areas have a natural hot-spring source within 5 km. Here are the numbers, the caveat about grading, and the resorts where a first-timer gets the most of both.
- Tengendai Kogen: Some of Japan's Best Snow Quality, and No Live Camera Snow falls at −7.8 °C, rain arrives on 12% of winter days, and the top station is at 1,860 m. Eight places to stay, and no live camera of its own.
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