🇯🇵 Japan · Hokkaido

Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ski Area

大雪山層雲峡黒岳スキー場
8 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌦️ Official site

Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 998–1544 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 1 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 1.1 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 373 cm of snowfall a season, 235th (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 45 km away. 3 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
9.1℃
Max wind
14.1km/h
Elevation (est.)
998–1544m
Area
1.2km²

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 3.6 / 11.9 14.1
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 7.3 / 15.5 11.4
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 5.8 / 10.6 18.3
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 3.5 / 10.8 12.3
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 0.2 / 10.2 15.5
❄️ 2 Oct 12.1 -0.3 / 0.9 19.6
❄️ 3 Oct 3.6 -1.1 / 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
1
Run length
1.1km
Lifts
2
Vertical
214m
Top 1,523 m · base 1,309 m

Run map

Other 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 map1.1 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 19%
East 79%
South 2%
West 0%

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

Other 1

Lift types

  • Cable car1
  • Chairlift1

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

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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
373 cm
per season
Range over three winters
73 cm
340–413 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
235
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
105
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
48
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,407 m, 654 m above the national median.
Quality rank
1
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-11.0°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
3%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
20%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
16 km/h
Dryness 0.93
Frequency 0.58
Freedom from rain 0.93
Calm when snowing 0.99

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
Asahidake11 km345 cm308
Canmore Ski Resort32 km205 cm1037
Touma Ski Area35 km236 cm842
Pippu Ski Slopes43 km219 cm935
Nukabira Gensenkyo Ski Area44 km175 cm1306

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 92% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 89 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

126cm
Dec
97cm
Jan
88cm
Feb
89cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

54 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 95.6 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
白水川左支流2.1 km78.5℃ hot7.4 neutral—1985
白水川白水沢B2.1 km65.3℃ hot6.7 neutral—1968
白水川白水沢A2.1 km54.5℃ hot2.9 acidic—1968
白水川白水川-72.1 km75.2℃ hot6.7 neutral—1988
白水川白水川-62.1 km16.9℃ cold2.7 acidic—1988
白水川2.1 km95.6℃ hot7 neutral—1968

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
Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ropeway大雪山層雲峡・黒岳ロープウェイNature1.5 km
Sounkyo Onsen層雲峡温泉Hot spring town2.7 km
Sounkyo層雲峡Nature3.8 km
Asahi-dake旭岳Mountain7.9 km
Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group大雪山Mountain7.9 km
Tenninkyō Onsen天人峡温泉Hot spring town15.5 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

12 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
層雲峡 リゾートペンション 山の上¥3,9903.29 28 reviews—JR旭川駅からバス1時間40分、層雲峡駅下車。車:旭川紋別自動車道で札幌から上川層雲峡IC約2時間半。ICからは約30分
層雲峡温泉 湯元 銀泉閣(BBHホテルグループ)¥4,3504.12 586 reviews—JR函館本線旭川駅で乗換、石北本線上川駅下車バスで30分
家族混浴できる大露天風呂の宿 層雲峡観光ホテル¥5,0003.66 1027 reviews—【お車】紋別自動車道上川・層雲峡ICより車で25分 ※EV充電スタンドあり(ホテル1階屋外駐車場内)
層雲峡温泉 ホテル雲井¥5,0114.67 20 reviews—上川駅より道北バス「層雲峡」行きにて終点「層雲峡」下車、徒歩にて約3分
層雲峡ホステル¥5,1004.44 32 reviews—JR旭川駅よりバスで約2時間 JR上川駅よりお車にて約25分
層雲峡温泉 層雲峡マウントビューホテル¥6,4353.96 458 reviews—JR上川駅よりタクシーで30分/旭川空港より車で90分
層雲峡温泉 温泉ペンション銀河¥6,6004.33 106 reviews—上川駅から層雲峡温泉行きバス30分
ホテル大雪 ONSEN&CANYON RESORT¥10,0004.40 1521 reviews—車のお越しで、札幌からは約180分。旭川空港からは約100分。旭山動物園からは80分。
層雲峡温泉 朝陽リゾートホテル¥11,5504.05 2310 reviews—JR上川駅下車 道北バスで約30分/札幌・旭川発の送迎バス運行(2026/3/31迄)
層雲峡 朝陽亭¥12,9803.89 1827 reviews—上川層雲峡ICよりR39号線を北見方面に車で25分/JR上川駅よりバスで30分/札幌旭川送迎バス運行(3/31迄・要予約
層雲閣¥13,2704.22 1341 reviews—※旭山動物園より車で90分※JR石北本線 上川駅よりローカルバスで35分※上川層雲峡ICより車で20分
ペンション ユーカラ———JR上川駅〜バスで約25分終点層雲峡下車徒歩2分/道央道上川層雲峡ICを下りてR39号線で約30分

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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.

9 Hotel 2 Guest house 1 Hostel

Nearest: 2.4 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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