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 · 2025-12-14
Gokase Highland Ski Area is a ski area in Miyazaki, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1285–1672 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.5 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 2 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 1.3 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 42 cm of snowfall a season, 2874th (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 other ski area lies 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
15.6℃
Max wind
7.3km/h
Elevation (est.)
1285–1672m
Area
1.5km²
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 | 14.6 / 16.8 | 7.3 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 14.5 / 18.1 | 6 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 15 / 16.6 | 5.5 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 11.2 / 20.5 | 8.3 |
| 🌤️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.5 / 18.9 | 10.6 |
| ☁️ 2 Oct | 0 | 7.1 / 16.1 | 10.3 |
| 🌤️ 3 Oct | 0 | 6.1 / 14.8 | 7 |
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
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
Intermediate 1
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.
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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
42 cm
per season
Range over three winters
37 cm
25–62 cm. The best winter was 2.5x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.
World rank
2874
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
393
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
33
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,525 m, 772 m above the national median.
Quality rank
387
of 395 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
26 km/h
Dryness 0.52
Frequency 0.04
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.87
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 23% 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 5 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
12cmDec
22cmJan
13cmFeb
5cmMar
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 32.5831, 131.1119
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28