🇯🇵 Japan · Hokkaido

Asahidake

旭岳
8 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌦️ Official site

Asahidake is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1109–1609 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.8 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 7 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 6.5 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 345 cm of snowfall a season, 308th (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 Asahikawa, about 37 km away. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 42 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
10.1℃
Max wind
16.5km/h
Elevation (est.)
1109–1609m
Area
2.8km²

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 8/10
Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept 0 4.2 / 13.2 16.5
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 7.9 / 16 16.1
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 5.8 / 10.8 20.6
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 3.9 / 10.4 8.8
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 1.2 / 10.2 21.9
❄️ 2 Oct 6.1 -0.1 / 1.2 18.6
❄️ 3 Oct 0.4 -0.2 / 2.1 12.9

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.

Marked runs
7
Run length
6.5km
Lifts
1
Vertical
484m
Top 1,589 m · base 1,105 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.3 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 3%
East 2%
South 38%
West 58%

Only 5% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 3
Intermediate 2
Advanced 2

Lift types

  • Cable car1

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

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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See the snow in motion

2026.1.10 大雪山旭岳 金庫岩から地獄谷パウダースキー

By: Saitoto Koji · 2026-01-10

2026/02/22 大雪山・旭岳&熊ヶ岳、山スキー&スノーボード

By: grane · 2026-02-28

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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
345 cm
per season
Range over three winters
95 cm
306–401 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
308
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
124
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
68
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,295 m, 542 m above the national median.
Quality rank
2
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-11.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
4%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
19%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.97
Frequency 0.53
Freedom from rain 0.91
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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ski Area11 km373 cm235
Canmore Ski Resort23 km205 cm1037
Touma Ski Area30 km236 cm842
Pippu Ski Slopes40 km219 cm935
Inosawa Sky Slopes40 km200 cm1085

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 88% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 84 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

123cm
Dec
95cm
Jan
88cm
Feb
84cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

35 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 92.8 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
旭の湯天人の湯-10.5 km47.3℃ hot6 neutral—1988
勇駒別温泉旭の湯A0.6 km52.8℃ hot5.98 mildly acidic—1977
旭の湯矢沢温泉0.6 km47.8℃ hot5.9 mildly acidic—1977
旭の湯旭の湯A0.6 km52.2℃ hot5.9 mildly acidic—1977
勇駒別温泉弘法の湯0.9 km45.6℃ hot6.1 neutral—1977
旭岳噴気孔1.9 km92.8℃ hot0.46 acidic—1977

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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Asahidake Ropeway旭岳ロープウェイNature0.1 km
Asahidake Onsen旭岳温泉Hot spring town2 km
Asahi-dake旭岳Mountain3.4 km
Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group大雪山Mountain3.4 km
Tenninkyō Onsen天人峡温泉Hot spring town4.7 km
Sounkyo層雲峡Nature14.9 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

5 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
旭川旭岳温泉 湯元 湧駒荘¥14,0004.60 775 reviews—車で/旭川市旭山動物園より50分/旭川空港より40分/美瑛より40分/富良野より90分/旭川駅発旭岳行きバス旭岳温泉入口
ラビスタ大雪山(共立リゾート)¥17,0504.33 1085 reviews—旭川駅⇒車約60分
東川・旭岳温泉 ホテルベアモンテ¥19,6504.54 574 reviews—JR旭川駅より車60分。路線バスいで湯号旭川駅より90分、旭川空港より50分、ホテルベアモンテ前バス停下車
旭岳温泉 ホテルディアバレー———※ホテルディアバレーは現在休業中です。同エリア内、旭岳温泉ホテルベアモンテをご利用ください※
旭岳温泉ホステル ケイズハウス北海道———旭川空港よりお車にて約45分

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Stay nearby

15 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

10 Hotel 4 Hostel 1 Guest house

Nearest: 1.3 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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