Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 107–251 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 1 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 0.5 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 339 cm of snowfall a season, 336th (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 43 km away. 35 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 | 15.1 / 22.7 | 6.5 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 16.3 / 24.2 | 10.3 |
| 🌤️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13.5 / 19.6 | 8.8 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 11.2 / 20.7 | 10.4 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 11.1 / 19.5 | 20.6 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 10 / 14.9 | 24.8 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 8.7 / 15 | 15.6 |
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
90% 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
- Rope tow3
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) | 11 km | 423 cm | 140 |
| Matsumori Ski Area | 13 km | 386 cm | 196 |
| Yakushiyama Ski Area | 24 km | 192 cm | 1148 |
| Taiheizan Ski Area Opus | 29 km | 248 cm | 769 |
| Akita Hachimantai Ski Area | 36 km | 466 cm | 96 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 38% 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 36 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 阿仁合 weather station — 2.3 km from this ski area, 59 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 678 cm |
| 2023/24 | 583 cm |
| 2024/25 | 754 cm |
| 2025/26 | 697 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 339 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
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 24 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 阿仁合 | 1.4 km | 24℃ cold | 6.2 neutral | — | — |
| 銀山 | 2.3 km | 11.4℃ cold | 5.9 mildly acidic | — | — |
| a spring in 阿仁町露熊露熊観光協会所有源泉 | 4.6 km | 10.5℃ cold | 5.4 mildly acidic | 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 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 | 13.7 km |
| Bear Garden阿仁熊牧場 | Museum | 16.4 km |
| Akita Prefectural Hokuou-no-mori Park秋田県立北欧の杜公園 | Park | 17 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
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| クウィンス森吉 | ¥5,800 | 4.19 52 reviews | 5.8 km | 阿仁前田駅（駅舎内） |
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Stay nearby
12 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 1.3 km
Nearest first
- 北緯40° 民宿正ちゃん Hotel 1.3 km
- 千草旅館 Hotel 1.6 km
- 宮越旅館 Hotel 1.6 km
- 民宿おだ Hotel 5.3 km
- 森吉山麓ゲストハウスORIYAMAKE Hotel 5.5 km
- 民宿丸慶 Hotel 5.7 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28