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Furusatonomori Ski Area

ふるさとの森スキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Furusatonomori Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 5–36 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.2 km². 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 199 cm of snowfall a season, 1095th (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. 16 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
19.8℃
Max wind
9.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
5–36m
Area
0.2km²

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 10/10
Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌤️ 27 Sept 0 16.3 / 23.2 10
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 17.1 / 22.2 14.5
🌤️ 29 Sept 0 14.6 / 19.8 17.1
🌦️ 30 Sept 0 12.7 / 20.9 8.3
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 11.5 / 18.8 19.9
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 9.7 / 12.9 27.9
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 8.9 / 14.5 19.8

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
199 cm
per season
Range over three winters
83 cm
160–243 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
1095
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
278
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
394
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 30 m, 723 m below the national median.
Quality rank
338
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-1.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
19%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
7%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
24 km/h
Dryness 0.27
Frequency 0.21
Freedom from rain 0.51
Calm when snowing 0.89

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
Kaminokuni Chomin Ski Area17 km294 cm516
Niyama Kogen Ski Area33 km176 cm1297
Greenpia Onuma39 km187 cm1208
Hakodate Nanae Snowpark42 km178 cm1282

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 56% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 29 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

40cm
Dec
52cm
Jan
44cm
Feb
29cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

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
Cape Sarakiサラキ岬Nature8.1 km
Tobetsu Trappist Monasteryトラピスト修道院Landmark13.2 km
知内温泉Hot spring town14.8 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

3 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
クラッセイン木古内¥5,6053.91 150 reviews—北海道新幹線・道南いさりび鉄道 「木古内駅」下車 徒歩3分
きこないビュウ温泉のとや¥11,3003.67 6 reviews—木古内駅より車で5分  函館空港から車で40分
宿 きたかい———北海道新幹線・道南いさりび鉄道「木古内駅」より車で5分。函館市内から車で40分。

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Stay nearby

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

2 Hotel 2 Guest house

Nearest: 0.8 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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