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
- 919–1,102 m
- Across
- 0.8 km
The ski area belongs to Asahi village and is run by a private operator. Everything is at a single base: tickets, the restaurant and the shop share one building, the Quartet Hall. The car park is paved and sits close to the slopes. Sources: asahivalley.jp、vill.asahi.nagano.jp (sources read 12 Oct 2026)
Below are links to 2 road cameras on the way up.
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 leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort | 12.0 km | 318 cm | 408 |
| Yabuhara Kogen | 20.0 km | 182 cm | 1298 |
| Blue Resort Norikura | 20.0 km | 317 cm | 421 |
| Kisofukushima Ski Resort | 23.0 km | 231 cm | 865 |
| Hirayu Onsen Ski Area | 26.0 km | 384 cm | 201 |
Compare side by side with Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort and Yabuhara Kogen →
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
98% 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
- Chairlift2
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 97% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 38 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 142 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 53 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 315 cm (5.9 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Model estimates: on Japanese mountains they run at about 60% of measured snowfall. Compare ranks, not resort-published totals. How we measure
Live cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Norikura and Hida webcams & snow report — all 9 ski areas →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Niekawa-juku贄川宿 | Old streets | 12.2 km |
| Shiojiri-juku塩尻宿 | Old streets | 13.1 km |
| Narai-juku奈良井宿 | Old streets | 17 km |
| Kōbōyama Kofun弘法山古墳 | Historic site | 17.3 km |
| Matsumoto Station松本駅 | Landmark | 17.4 km |
| Matsumoto Castle松本城 | Historic site | 18.4 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.
Going with children
- Kids’ area
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
- Childcare
- Not checked
- Parking
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
- Rental
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
Checked on the official site (12 Oct 2026) · Source . “Not checked” means we have not looked yet. Compare with other ski areas →
Places to stay on the map
9 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: 3.7 km
Show the nearest places
Nearest first
- スカイランドきよみず 3.7 km
- 大野田公民館 7.9 km
- BizHotel塩尻駅前 10.7 km
- Hotel Nakamuraya 10.8 km
- あさひ館 10.8 km
- 旅館藤金 10.9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
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Guides covering Nagano
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- A Strong El Niño Is Forecast. Here Is What the Last Big One Did to Japan's Snow. NOAA expects a strong or very strong El Niño this winter. We measured every Japanese ski area across the last 12 winters: El Niño winters ran 88% of normal, and the strongest of the twelve left Japan at 63%. But Hakuba held 92% of its average that winter while Niseko fell to 57%.
- How Japan's Early-Bird Lift Tickets Work: At Hakuba Happo-One, Eight of the Nine Need a Japanese ID Card Hakuba Happo-One opened early-bird sales at 10:00 on 1 October. A day costs ¥6,400 against ¥9,800 at the window, 35% off. But every ticket on the list except one needs a My Number Card and a Japanese phone app. A visitor from abroad can buy exactly one of them, at 15% off.