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Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort

会津高原たかつえスキー場
Off season
Official site

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
322cm
Elevation
960–1,628 m
Across
3.6 km

Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort is a ski area in Fukushima. Compared with Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort, the nearest ski area (7.0 km), it gets 18 cm less snow in a season, and its snowfall days are 1.8°C colder. Less snow, but lighter snow.

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
322cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
130cm
The middle winter of the 12: 335 cm. The best: 437 cm.
World rank
393
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
135
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
88
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,164 m, 398 m above the national median.
Quality rank
45
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−5.9°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 57
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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort7.0 km340 cm307
Aizu Kogen Takahata16.0 km439 cm120
Aizukogen Nango Ski Area17.0 km394 cm184
Oze Hinoemata Onsen Ski Resort23.0 km439 cm120
Hunter Mountain Shiobara Ski Area24.0 km193 cm1217

Compare side by side with Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort and Aizu Kogen Takahata →

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
15
Run length
10km
Lifts
10
Vertical
668m
Top 1,628 m · base 960 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.4 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 19%
East 2%
South 10%
West 69%

Only 21% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Novice 2 · 1.9 km
Easy 9 · 6.2 km
Intermediate 4 · 2.3 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift8
  • Magic carpet2

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 47% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 52 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.

85cm
Dec
111cm
Jan
75cm
Feb
52cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 322 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 130 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 437 cm (3.4 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.

198
130
363
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

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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 59 °C).

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SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
たかつえアストリアホテル1.5 km59℃ hot9 alkalinealkaline simple—

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.

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PlaceTypeDistance
南会津町前沢Old streets10.1 km
駒止湿原Mountain12 km
Tokusa Onsen木賊温泉Hot spring town14.2 km
Yunishigawa Mizunosato日光市湯西川水の郷Leisure16.6 km
Yunishigawa Onsen湯西川温泉Hot spring town17.4 km
Heike no Sato日光市平家の里Museum17.7 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

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

We have not yet checked the family facilities (kids’ area, childcare, parking, rental) on the official site. See the official site ↗

Places to stay nearbyPR

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18 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within about 3 km of this ski area. The table shows the nearest 12 with a listed price.

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PropertyLowest listed (per person, tax incl.)RatingDistanceGetting there
会津アストリアホテル ¥9,1004.25/5 86 reviews1.5 km東武・野岩・会津鉄道会津高原尾瀬口駅より30分/東北自動車道西那須野塩原IC~R400~R121~R352経由90分
ペンションパフィオ ¥10,0002.50/5 62 reviews1.5 km会津高原尾瀬口駅より車で25分/バス停(たかつえスキー場)より徒歩5分 東北自動車道西那須野塩原I.C~国立公園尾瀬方面
ペンション ワインズ ¥8,4004.44/5 89 reviews1.6 km会津鬼怒川線会津高原尾瀬口駅よりタクシーで25分。たかつえスキー場から徒歩3分。
猫がいる宿GENTILE ¥6,0004.27/5 20 reviews1.7 km
会津高原 ペンション フェリチェ ¥7,0004.60/5 120 reviews1.7 km東武線会津高原尾瀬口駅より車で30分・東北自動車道西那須野塩原ICから国道400→121→352経由約60Km
民宿 しみず ¥4,5004.00/5 11 reviews2.5 km【車】会津若松市内より約1時間45分【バス】会津高原尾瀬口駅前よりたかつえスキー場行き路線バス(約30分)
会津高原国際人財センター ^ ¥6,3803.92/5 72 reviews2.7 km会津高原尾瀬口駅から車で約22分
ペンション アルミッシュ ¥8,5004.00/5 11 reviews2.7 km会津鬼怒川線・浅草~会津高原尾瀬口駅~バス~たかつえスキー場/東北自動車道・西那須野塩原IC~63K

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Places to stay on the map

1 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.

Nearest: 1.5 km

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Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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