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Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi)

森吉山阿仁スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 527–1221 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 3.8 km². Within 2.7 km of the centre, the map shows 23 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 13 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 423 cm of snowfall a season, 140th (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 Akita, about 46 km away. 36 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

15.7℃

Max wind

7.5km/h

Elevation (est.)

527–1221m

Area

3.8km²

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	Temp	Wind
☁️ 27 Sept	12.2 / 18.8	8.7
🌧️ 28 Sept	12.6 / 19.2	9.5
☁️ 29 Sept	8.9 / 15	9.4
☁️ 30 Sept	6.7 / 17	7
🌧️ 1 Oct	7 / 15	14
🌦️ 2 Oct	5.7 / 10.4	23.2
🌦️ 3 Oct	4.4 / 10.7	16.4

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

Run length

8.3km

Lifts

Vertical

660m

Top 1,202 m · base 542 m

Run map

EasyIntermediate Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.8 km

Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs10°

Which way the slopes face

North 5%

East 1%

South 37%

West 57%

Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 9

Intermediate 3

Lift types

Chairlift2
Gondola1
Rope tow1

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.

Official YouTube channel

More than we show here.

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

423 cm

per season

Range over three winters

91 cm

367–458 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.

World rank

140

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

181

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 806 m, 53 m above the national median.

Quality rank

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-5.8°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

17%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

27%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

18 km/h

Dryness 0.56

Frequency 0.76

Freedom from rain 0.56

Calm when snowing 0.97

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
Matsumori Ski Area	8.5 km	386 cm	196
Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area	11 km	339 cm	336
Akita Hachimantai Ski Area	26 km	466 cm	96
Taiheizan Ski Area Opus	31 km	248 cm	769
Tazawako Ski Resort	32 km	325 cm	379

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 57 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

110cm

Dec

123cm

Jan

88cm

Feb

57cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

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
Mount Moriyoshi森吉山	Mountain	4.2 km
Bear Garden阿仁熊牧場	Museum	6.3 km
Yasu Falls安の滝	Nature	9.5 km
Tamagawa Dam玉川ダム (秋田県)	Nature	18.8 km
Tamagawa Hot Spring玉川温泉 (秋田県)	Hot spring town	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 ↗

Nearby resorts

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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
森吉山妖精の森コテージラウル	¥5,000	4.00 39 reviews	4.2 km	秋田内陸線「阿仁前田駅」／Ｒ285阿仁前田十字路交差点から車で２０分
打当温泉「マタギの湯」	¥9,000	4.44 200 reviews	5.5 km	秋田内陸線「阿仁マタギ駅」より2ｋｍ(無料送迎有/要予約）
阿仁の宿　ホテルフッシュ	¥9,000	3.73 112 reviews	4.1 km	東北新幹線　盛岡駅→田沢湖線　角館駅→秋田内陸線　秋田内陸縦貫鉄道阿仁合駅→ホテル（無料送迎）※要予約
郷土料理の民宿　テレマーク山荘　森吉山	—	—	6.4 km	阿仁前田駅からお車にて２０分