🇯🇵 Japan · Hokkaido

Fu's snow area

フッズスノーエリア
8 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌦️ Official site

Fu's snow area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 234–489 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 13 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 3.9 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 201 cm of snowfall a season, 1073rd (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 41 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
16.4℃
Max wind
18.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
234–489m
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 12.4 / 19 18.7
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 15.1 / 19.2 19.7
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 10.4 / 17.6 16.6
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 7.5 / 18.6 7.8
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 6.5 / 16.3 18.5
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 6.3 / 9.9 21.8
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 4.8 / 11.9 14.3

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
10
Run length
3.9km
Lifts
3
Vertical
293m
Top 544 m · base 251 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 map1.3 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 85%
East 6%
South 1%
West 8%

91% 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

Easy 3
Intermediate 5
Advanced 2

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.

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.

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See the snow in motion

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By: こがもちゅーぶ。 · 2026-01-14

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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
201 cm
per season
Range over three winters
68 cm
159–227 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.
World rank
1073
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
275
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
301
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 326 m, 427 m below the national median.
Quality rank
159
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-4.4°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
6%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
9%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17 km/h
Dryness 0.46
Frequency 0.27
Freedom from rain 0.85
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
Sapporo Moiwayama8.3 km193 cm1139
Sapporo Bankei Ski Area8.6 km210 cm987
Dynasty Ski Resort14 km178 cm1282
Sapporo Teine16 km279 cm579
Eniwa City Ski Area21 km163 cm1411

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 47 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.

46cm
Dec
63cm
Jan
48cm
Feb
47cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 小金湯 weather station — 5.1 km from this ski area, 131 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average507 cm
2023/24493 cm
2024/25560 cm
2025/26468 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 201 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

3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 48 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
藤野ふじの公園井1.2 km14.5℃ cold8.3 mildly alkaline——
豊滝豊滝温泉井4.9 km48℃ hot8.5 alkaline——
黄金湯黄金湯温泉5 km30.3℃ lukewarm8.5 alkalinealkaline simple—

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
Makomanai Ice Arena真駒内屋内競技場Park7.9 km
Mount Moiwa藻岩山 (札幌市)Mountain8.8 km
Hokkaidō Jingū北海道神宮Shrine11.8 km
Nakajima Park中島公園Park12.2 km
Sapporo Dome札幌ドームLeisure13 km
SusukinoすすきのOld streets13.2 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

4 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
R230ゲストハウス¥2,800——地下鉄真駒内駅よりバスで約30分
札幌金湯亭ホテル&リゾート Asahi group¥2,8753.80 41 reviews—真駒内駅よりお車にて約20分
B&B HOTTA———札幌駅から定鉄バスで約60分くらいです
MADOROMI藤野/民泊———真駒内駅から車で約15分

Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)

Stay nearby

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

25 Hotel 2 Guest house

Nearest: 1.2 km

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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