Akita Hachimantai Ski Area is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 986–1202 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.3 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 2 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 2.1 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 466 cm of snowfall a season, 96th (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 Morioka, about 40 km away. 36 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 27 Sept | 0 | 11 / 17.1 | 9.5 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 11.1 / 17.9 | 13.5 |
| ☁️ 29 Sept | 0 | 7.3 / 13.1 | 12.7 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 7 / 15.9 | 9.4 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 6.9 / 13.4 | 20.8 |
| 🌧️ 2 Oct | 0 | 4.6 / 8.2 | 28 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 3.8 / 8.7 | 17.3 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 2% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Gondola1
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.
Appi and Hachimantai webcams & snow report — all 11 ski areas →
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appi Kogen | 12 km | 413 cm | 157 |
| Hachimantai Resort Shimokura Ski area | 15 km | 357 cm | 268 |
| Hachimantai Resort Panorama Ski Are | 18 km | 357 cm | 268 |
| Amihari Onsen Ski Resort | 20 km | 386 cm | 196 |
| Tayama Ski Area (Hachimantai City) | 21 km | 302 cm | 477 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 58% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 79 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
13 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 99 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 後生掛紺屋地獄 | 0.7 km | 96.5℃ hot | 2 acidic | sulphur, iron, acidic | — |
| 大沼 | 0.9 km | 54℃ hot | 7 neutral | simple | — |
| 蒸の湯 | 1 km | 96.9℃ hot | 4.2 mildly acidic | simple | — |
| 大深 | 1 km | 93℃ hot | 2.4 acidic | acidic | — |
| 澄川酸の湯 | 1.9 km | 83℃ hot | 2.2 acidic | acidic | — |
| トロコ | 4 km | 99℃ hot | 8.6 alkaline | sulphur | — |
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.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Goshougake Onsen後生掛温泉 | Hot spring town | 0.8 km |
| Hachimantai八幡平 | Mountain | 4.5 km |
| Akita-Yakeyama秋田焼山 | Mountain | 4.5 km |
| 鏡沼 | Nature | 4.7 km |
| Tamagawa Hot Spring玉川温泉 (秋田県) | Hot spring town | 6.9 km |
| Matsukawa Geothermal Power Plant松川地熱発電所 | Landmark | 15.2 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.
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.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 八幡平温泉郷 八幡平高原ホテル | ¥11,150 | 4.20 34 reviews | — | 【東北自動車道】 松尾八幡平I.Cより県道23号線約55分／鹿角八幡平I.Cより車で約30分 |
| 源泉・秘湯の宿 ふけの湯 | ¥15,400 | 4.21 56 reviews | — | JR田沢湖駅下車、秋北バス・羽後交通バス（直通）八幡平頂上行で約120分「 ふけの湯温泉」下車、徒歩1分 |
| 後生掛温泉 | ¥18,900 | 4.67 269 reviews | — | 鹿角八幡平ICより車で45分 |
| 八幡平大沼茶屋湖 | — | — | — | 鹿角花輪駅よりお車にて約３０分 |
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Stay nearby
8 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28