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
- 512–771 m
- Across
- 2.1 km
Fairy Land Kaneyama Ski Area is a ski area in Fukushima. Compared with Mishima Choei, the nearest ski area (8.6 km), it gets 31 cm more snow in a season, and its snowfall days are 1.1°C colder.
Below are links to a road camera 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mishima Choei | 8.6 km | 371 cm | 221 |
| yanaizu onsen ski area | 19.0 km | 264 cm | 655 |
| Aizukogen Nango Ski Area | 20.0 km | 394 cm | 184 |
| Tadami Ski Area | 23.0 km | 482 cm | 91 |
| Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort | 30.0 km | 340 cm | 307 |
Compare side by side with Mishima Choei and yanaizu onsen 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
Only 41% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift3
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 39% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 54 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 402 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 291 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 554 cm (1.9 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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
Live cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
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.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 金山 weather station — 3.6 km from this ski area, 293 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 684 cm |
| 2023/24 | 606 cm |
| 2024/25 | 811 cm |
| 2025/26 | 635 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 412 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
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 46.5 °C).
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| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 川口 | 2 km | 41℃ warm | 7.4 neutral | — | — |
| 八町亀の湯 | 2.3 km | 45℃ hot | 6.3 neutral | — | — |
| 玉梨大黒湯(共同浴場) | 2.3 km | 46.5℃ hot | 6.5 neutral | — | — |
| 沼沢叶屋 | 3.6 km | 45℃ hot | 6.8 neutral | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Numazawa沼沢湖 | Nature | 3 km |
| 早戸温泉 | Hot spring town | 5.1 km |
| Oyamazumi Shrine大山祇神社 (西会津町) | Shrine | 11.8 km |
| No. 1 Tadamigawa Bridge第一只見川橋梁 | Landmark | 12.3 km |
| 西山温泉 (福島県) | Hot spring town | 13.7 km |
| Enzo-ji Temple円蔵寺 | Temple | 19 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
Contains advertising. Property names and Rakuten Travel’s booking pages are in Japanese.
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within about 3 km of this ski area. The table shows the nearest 2 with a listed price.
| Property | Lowest listed (per person, tax incl.) | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 朝日屋 | ¥6,600 | 4.63／5 139 reviews | 1.4 km | 只見線『会津川口駅』より車で5分!無料送迎サービスあり |
| 玉梨温泉 恵比寿屋 | ¥14,300 | 3.33／5 86 reviews | 2.3 km | JR 会津川口駅より路線バスにて10分 |
Prices are the lowest Rakuten Travel lists, not the price for your dates. The button above, or a property name, shows prices for the dates you pick.
Contains advertising. Property names and Rakuten Travel’s booking pages are in Japanese. · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Places to stay on the map
2 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.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
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Guides covering Fukushima
- Japan Is Sold on Powder. Measured, It Is the Easiest Big Ski Country to Learn In. Half of Japan's pisted kilometres are graded easy or novice — against 24% in the United States and 28% in Canada. And 255 of Japan's 397 ski areas have a natural hot-spring source within 5 km. Here are the numbers, the caveat about grading, and the resorts where a first-timer gets the most of both.
- Tengendai Kogen: Some of Japan's Best Snow Quality, and No Live Camera Snow falls at −7.8 °C, rain arrives on 12% of winter days, and the top station is at 1,860 m. Eight places to stay, and no live camera of its own.