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Aizu Kogen Takahata

会津高原 高畑スキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️ Official site Lift tickets (official)

Aizu Kogen Takahata is a ski area in Fukushima, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 705–1218 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.4 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 10 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 7.6 km of piste. There is no settled snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 459 cm of snowfall a season, 108th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. The nearest city of any size is Utsunomiya, about 71 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 124 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Base depth
0cm
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
16.8℃
Max wind
6.8km/h
Elevation (est.)
705–1218m
Area
2.4km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept 0 13.5 / 19.9 3.9
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 14.6 / 20.4 6.8
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 10.8 / 18 6.1
☁️ 30 Sept 0 10.9 / 21.3 7.5
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 10 / 20.3 14.2
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 5.7 / 11.7 20.8
☁️ 3 Oct 0 4.8 / 13.8 13.2

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
10
Run length
7.6km
Lifts
4
Vertical
524m
Top 1,249 m · base 725 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 46%
East 2%
South 1%
West 51%

Only 48% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 3
Easy 4
Intermediate 3

Lift types

  • Chairlift4

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.

Live Cameras

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How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
459 cm
per season
Range over three winters
157 cm
402–559 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.
World rank
108
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
66
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
131
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 972 m, 219 m above the national median.
Quality rank
52
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.5°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
12%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
29%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
21 km/h
Dryness 0.39
Frequency 0.83
Freedom from rain 0.68
Calm when snowing 0.93

The tick marks the median across the 395 Japanese ski areas. 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. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Oze Hinoemata Onsen Ski Resort8.5 km459 cm108
Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort16 km356 cm274
Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort18 km356 cm274
Aizukogen Nango Ski Area21 km407 cm162
Okutadami Maruyama Ski Resort21 km796 cm1

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 (51%). In amount, March brings 68 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

129cm
Dec
148cm
Jan
102cm
Feb
68cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 桧枝岐 weather station — 11.6 km from this ski area, 12 m above its mid-slope.

Three-season average770 cm
2023/24717 cm
2024/25961 cm
2025/26631 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 459 cm.

A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.

Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 52.5 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
小豆窓明荘3.5 km52.5℃ hot7.9 mildly alkalinesimple—
木賊井筒屋4.4 km51.5℃ hot8 mildly alkalinesimple—

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 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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Tokusa Onsen木賊温泉Hot spring town4.1 km
南会津町前沢Old streets5.7 km
Mount Aizu-Komagatake会津駒ヶ岳Mountain10.3 km
檜枝岐温泉Hot spring town10.5 km
Nikkō National Park日光国立公園Nature13.7 km
Okutadami Dam奥只見ダムNature19.5 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.

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

Places to stay nearby

4 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
民宿 ふじや <福島県>¥5,2005.00 17 reviews6.9 km会津高原尾瀬口駅よりお車にて約40分
小豆温泉 花木の宿¥39,6004.78 39 reviews3.9 km会津田島駅より路線バス(会津バス)で約1時間20分
南会津 木賊温泉 囲炉裏の宿 イワナ福本屋——4.1 km会津高原尾瀬口駅からバスで約1時間
民宿 かじや<福島県>——6.9 kmJR 会津高原駅より車で30分/尾瀬、桧枝岐行きバス(湯の花経由)にて40分

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Stay nearby

3 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

3 Guest house

Nearest: 1.4 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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