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.
- Elevation
- 112–246 m
- Across
- 0.6 km
Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area is a ski area in Akita. Compared with Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi), the nearest ski area (11 km), it gets 90 cm less snow in a season, and its snowfall days are 4.2°C warmer.
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) | 11.0 km | 370 cm | 226 |
| Matsumori Ski Area | 13.0 km | 351 cm | 281 |
| Yakushiyama Ski Area | 24.0 km | 160 cm | 1541 |
| Taiheizan Ski Area Opus | 29.0 km | 216 cm | 988 |
| Akita Hachimantai Ski Area | 36.0 km | 437 cm | 122 |
Compare side by side with Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) and Matsumori Ski Area →
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
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 41% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 38 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 280 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 195 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 419 cm (2.1 times as much).
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
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).
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| 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 (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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| 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.
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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1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within about 3 km of this ski area. The table shows the nearest 1 with a listed price.
| Property | From (per person, tax incl.) | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| クウィンス森吉 | ¥5,800 | 4.19／5 52 reviews | 5.8 km | 阿仁前田駅(駅舎内) |
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Places to stay on the map
12 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: 1.3 km
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Nearest first
- 北緯40° 民宿正ちゃん 1.3 km
- 千草旅館 1.6 km
- 宮越旅館 1.6 km
- 民宿おだ 5.3 km
- 森吉山麓ゲストハウスORIYAMAKE 5.5 km
- 民宿丸慶 5.7 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
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Guides covering Akita
- Ski and Soak in Japan: Which Ski Areas Have a Hot Spring Source Next Door, and How Hot the Water Is We matched 7,203 analysed hot spring sources to Japan's ski areas. 255 of 397 have one within 5 km, 145 of them at 42 °C or hotter, and 54 have one within 1 km. These are the ski areas that pair top snow with hot water close by, and the ones where the water is strongly acidic.
- Will There Be Snow at Japan's Winter Festivals? Three Winters, Measured Japan's winter festivals are photographed in deep snow. We measured what was actually on the ground during each one across three winters — and checked the 580-year record of a frozen lake that has now failed eight years running.
- Japan's Snow Huts Are Water Shrines. The Snowiest Towns Do Not Have Them. The kamakura is not a shelter from snow. It is a well-side shrine to a water god, roughly 450 years old, and Yokote built its huts on 6 cm of snow in 2024. We measured the snow at five towns that hold one.