Fuyudorigoe Ski Garden is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 84–120 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.4 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 1 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 0.3 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 362 cm of snowfall a season, 260th (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 Niigata, about 32 km away. 113 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 27 Sept | 0 | 18.6 / 25.6 | 4.6 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 19.5 / 22.5 | 6.9 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 17.2 / 22.4 | 6.6 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 13.9 / 23.5 | 8.6 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 15 / 22.9 | 15.1 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 12.3 / 18.6 | 20 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 11.4 / 18 | 9.8 |
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
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
86% 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
Lift types
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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.
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.
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikawa Onsen | 26 km | 386 cm | 196 |
| Nagaoka City Ski Area | 32 km | 411 cm | 161 |
| Suhara Ski Area | 36 km | 562 cm | 50 |
| Tadami Ski Area | 37 km | 484 cm | 80 |
| Koshi Kogen Ski Area | 42 km | 491 cm | 78 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 29% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 35 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 17.7 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 金割鉱泉金割鉱泉 | 1.8 km | 17.7℃ cold | 8.5 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 高砂鉱泉高砂鉱泉 | 3.6 km | 14.6℃ cold | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aomi Shrine青海神社 (加茂市) | Shrine | 6 km |
| 護摩堂山 (新潟県) | Mountain | 8.3 km |
| 湯田上温泉 | Hot spring town | 9.4 km |
| Niitsu Oil Field新津油田 | Historic site | 12.1 km |
| Niigata Prefectural Botanical Garden新潟県立植物園 | Museum | 13.3 km |
| Banetsu MonogatariSLばんえつ物語 | Landmark | 17.6 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.
Stay nearby
5 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 7.8 km
Nearest first
- 若松屋旅館 Hotel 7.8 km
- 末廣館 Hotel 8.4 km
- 旅館初音 Hotel 8.6 km
- 湯田上温泉 ホテル小柳 Hotel 8.8 km
- 越後乃お宿 わか竹 Hotel 8.9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28