Chisennupri
The lifts have not run since 2013. The mountain now operates only as cat skiing, with snowcats taking skiers up.
Source: www.chisenupuri.com (checked 2026-09-15)
Chisennupri is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 552–792 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.3 km². There is no settled snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. Averaged over the last twelve winters, the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 365 cm of snowfall a season, 238th (tied) of the 3,065 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 Sapporo, about 65 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 7.4 / 13 | 17.8 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 5.7 / 8.4 | 22.2 |
| 🌧️ 3 Oct | 0 | 5.2 / 9.4 | 9.4 |
| 🌦️ 4 Oct | 0 | 3.4 / 11.8 | 11.4 |
| 🌦️ 5 Oct | 0 | 2.9 / 13.7 | 17.9 |
| 🌧️ 6 Oct | 0 | 10.8 / 14.5 | 22 |
| 🌦️ 7 Oct | 0 | 8 / 12.8 | 12.6 |
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,065 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across the 393 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niseko Moiwa Ski Resort | 3.8 km | 289 cm | 524 |
| Niseko Grand Hirafu | 8.1 km | 289 cm | 524 |
| Iwanai Resort | 9.7 km | 373 cm | 218 |
| Asahigaoka Ski Resort | 12 km | 288 cm | 530 |
| Consadole Niki Ski Park | 29 km | 248 cm | 745 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 56% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 60 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 365 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 205 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 525 cm (2.6 times as much). For 63% of the 393 ski areas in Japan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
21 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 75.4 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 湯本大湯沼 | 0.6 km | 64℃ hot | 2.8 acidic | simple | — |
| 湯本蘭越町雪秩父泉源 | 0.9 km | 52.2℃ hot | 5.8 mildly acidic | simple | — |
| 旭台フジヤ産業 | 2.1 km | 34.8℃ warm | 6.1 neutral | simple | — |
| 旭台旭台温泉 | 2.8 km | 34.4℃ warm | 6 neutral | simple | — |
| 日ノ出後藤不動産 | 3.2 km | 34.8℃ warm | 5.5 mildly acidic | simple | — |
| 五色五色温泉 | 3.6 km | 75.4℃ hot | 2.9 acidic | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shinsen-numa神仙沼 | Nature | 3.4 km |
| Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Parkニセコ積丹小樽海岸国定公園 | Nature | 3.9 km |
| Nisekoan Nupuriニセコアンヌプリ | Mountain | 5.4 km |
| Niseko Onsenkyōニセコ温泉郷 | Hot spring town | 10.9 km |
| Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi蘭越町貝の館 | Museum | 18.2 km |
| Mount Yōtei羊蹄山 | Mountain | 18.6 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
6 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ワン・ニセコ・リゾート・タワーズ | ¥5,220 | 4.23 369 reviews | — | 札幌・新千歳空港より車で約2時間。JR倶知安駅より無料送迎バス、冬季は新千歳よりスキーバス（有料）有り |
| ＴＨＥ Ｌｏｄｇｅ ＭＯＩＷＡ８３４ | ¥5,620 | — | — | 新千歳空港／札幌から車で約2時間 |
| 月美の宿 紅葉音 | ¥12,370 | 4.32 322 reviews | — | ニセコ駅よりお車で２０分 |
| モイワシャレー（ＭＯＩＷＡ ＣＨＡＬＥＴ） | ¥17,752 | — | — | JR倶知安駅から車で約１０分（送迎要予約） |
| モイワロッジ | — | — | — | JRニセコ駅よりタクシーで10分 |
| から松山荘 ヨーデル | — | — | — | ＪＲニセコ駅よりお車で１０分／札幌市内よりお車で２時間 |
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Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Hokkaido
- A Historic El Niño Is Forecast. Here Is What the Last Big One Did to Japan's Snow. NOAA gives a very strong El Niño better than a 90% chance this winter. We measured every Japanese ski area across the last 12 winters: El Niño winters ran 88% of normal, and the strongest one on record left Japan at 63%. But Hakuba held 92% of its average that winter while Niseko fell to 57%.
- Las Leñas Gets Four Times Vail's Snow. We Ranked 24 Famous Resorts by What Actually Falls on Them. Niseko is 524st in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 548th, Jackson Hole 920th, Aspen 1,197th. Measured identically across 3,065 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- Australia Just Had Its Worst Season in Twenty Years. Here Is What Japan's 12-Winter Record Says About Booking It Instead. Snow depth at Spencers Creek peaked at 94.5 cm, the third lowest since 1954, and resorts closed in August. Our own measure — snowfall, not depth — puts Australia at 50% of its 12-year average. The gap between those two numbers is the story: it was the warmth, not only the lack of snow. New Zealand, meanwhile, finished at 108% of normal.
Updated: 1 Oct 2026, 00:30