五ヶ瀬町・五ヶ瀬ハイランドスキー場
By: 【公式】UMKテレビ宮崎 · 14 Dec
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.
Typical snowfall
47cm
- Elevation
- 1,419–1,607 m
- Across
- 1.5 km
Gokase Highland Ski Area, in Miyazaki, Japan, runs from 1,419 m at the base to 1,607 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 2 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 1.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 47 cm of snowfall a season, 392nd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (122 cm), brought more than 7 times as much as the leanest, 2018/19 (17 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 20 cm. Snowfall days average −5.2°C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 389th of 397 in Japan.
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.
Seasonal snowfall
47cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
17cm
A typical winter: 37 cm. The best: 122 cm.
World rank
2837
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
392
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
33
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,525 m, 759 m above the national median.
Quality rank
389
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−5.2°C
Japanese median: −3.5°C
Rain days
28%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
1%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
26km/h
Dryness 52
Frequency 4
Freedom from rain 35
Calm when snowing 87
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.
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
2
Run length
1.3km
Lifts
3
Vertical
188m
Top 1,607 m · base 1,419 m
Run map
EasyIntermediate Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.9 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14°
Which way the slopes face
North 74%
East 19%
South 0%
West 7%
93% 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 1 · 0.9 km
Intermediate 1 · 0.4 km
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 25% 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. In amount, March brings 5 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
11cmDec
20cmJan
12cmFeb
5cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 47 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2018/19 with 17 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 122 cm (7.2 times as much).
23
23
61
122
17
35
34
49
71
38
62
25
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
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
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Kunimi国見岳 (熊本県・宮崎県) | Mountain | 9.6 km |
| 椎葉村十根川 | Old streets | 10.9 km |
| Heitate Shrine幣立神社 | Shrine | 11.8 km |
| Nasu Family Residence那須家住宅 | Landmark | 13.8 km |
| Gorō Falls五老ヶ滝 | Nature | 15.4 km |
| Tsūjun Bridge通潤橋 | Landmark | 15.6 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.
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