Akoyama Skijo Snowpal is a ski area in Shiga, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 196–246 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.3 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 1 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 0.2 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 162 cm of snowfall a season, 1429th (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. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 26 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 | 19.3 / 22.7 | 5.6 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 19 / 23.1 | 5.9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 16.2 / 19.5 | 4.4 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 13.9 / 23 | 13 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 13.8 / 23.6 | 18.2 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 12.3 / 19.7 | 21.8 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 11.5 / 19.7 | 17.9 |
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
69% 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
Lift types
- T-bar1
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
Okuibuki and Yogo webcams & snow report — all 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohana Resort | 12 km | 151 cm | 1565 |
| Gransnow Okuibuki | 16 km | 257 cm | 692 |
| Yogo Kogen Resort | 18 km | 269 cm | 624 |
| Imajo 365 | 21 km | 269 cm | 624 |
| Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 24 km | 122 cm | 1902 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 19% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 10 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 柳ケ瀬 weather station — 4.9 km from this ski area, 1 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 326 cm |
| 2023/24 | 242 cm |
| 2024/25 | 439 cm |
| 2025/26 | 297 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 162 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
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 15.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 余呉湖温泉 | 2.3 km | 15.5℃ cold | 6.2 neutral | iron | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Yogo余呉湖 | Nature | 3.6 km |
| Shizugatake賤ヶ岳 | Mountain | 5.1 km |
| Odani Castle小谷城 | Historic site | 11 km |
| Chikubu Island竹生島 | Nature | 15.3 km |
| Hōgon-ji Temple宝厳寺 | Temple | 15.6 km |
| Nagahama Castle長浜城 (近江国) | Historic site | 19.1 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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗Places to stay nearby
8 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 上丹生（かみにゅう）山根邸 別館 | ¥5,500 | — | — | 北陸自動車道木之本インターより約15分、ＪＲ北陸本線余呉駅よりバス「余呉バス」で２０分 |
| 薪を使う、露天風呂、ご飯が出来る、自給自足体験型ゲストハウス／民泊 | ¥5,655 | — | — | 余呉駅から徒歩で約４分 |
| 自然の中で過ごす贅沢な田舎時間－Ｔ ＨＯＵＳＥ ＹＯＧＯ／民泊 | ¥5,800 | — | — | 余呉駅から徒歩で約３分 |
| 「澄み渡る地下水が奏でる」自然と調和する癒しの宿 ＾ | ¥7,540 | — | — | 余呉駅から車で約８分 |
| ウッディパル余呉 | ¥8,250 | 4.57 36 reviews | — | 木ノ本駅から余呉バス（菅並洞寿院行き）乗車、ウッディパル下車すぐ（約20分） |
| ＹＯＧＯ ＲＥＳＴ ＶＩＬＬＡ＇Ｓ | ¥18,400 | 4.00 6 reviews | — | 余呉駅から徒歩約７分、木之本ＩＣ から車で約１０分 |
| 大見いこいの広場 | — | — | — | ＪＲ木ノ本駅より車で約１５分 |
| 上丹生山根邸 本館 | — | — | — | 北陸自動車道木之本インターより約15分、ＪＲ北陸本線余呉駅よりバス「余呉バス」で２０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.
Nearest: 4.1 km
Nearest first
- Choijian Guest house 4.1 km
- Seisenkaku Hotel 4.5 km
- 余呉湖荘 Hostel 4.6 km
- 草野旅館 Hotel 4.6 km
- ゲストハウス ミエイ Guest house 6.5 km
- 旅館紅鮎 Hotel 11.3 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28