🇯🇵 Japan · Yamagata

Green Valley Kamuro Ski Area

グリーンバレー神室スキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️

Green Valley Kamuro Ski Area is a ski area in Yamagata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 303–461 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.9 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 7 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 2.6 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 280 cm of snowfall a season, 574th (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. 4 official live cameras are linked below. 46 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
18.6℃
Max wind
5.9km/h
Elevation (est.)
303–461m
Area
0.9km²

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 15.9 / 22.4 8.2
🌦️ 28 Sept 0 16.6 / 22.6 7.9
☁️ 29 Sept 0 13.7 / 19.9 10.5
🌤️ 30 Sept 0 11 / 20.2 6.7
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 10.7 / 20.5 21.8
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 9.8 / 15 22.1
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 8 / 14.9 11.8

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.

Marked runs
7
Run length
2.6km
Lifts
1
Vertical
154m
Top 470 m · base 315 m

Run map

IntermediateAdvancedOther 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 map0.7 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.9°

Which way the slopes face

North 0%
East 5%
South 89%
West 7%

Only 5% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Intermediate 3
Advanced 1
Other 3

Lift types

  • Chairlift1

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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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
280 cm
per season
Range over three winters
57 cm
256–313 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
574
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
187
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
294
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 362 m, 391 m below the national median.
Quality rank
308
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-1.7°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
28%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
15%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
19 km/h
Dryness 0.27
Frequency 0.42
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.96

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
Gionyama Ski Area25 km341 cm322
Onikobe Ski Area26 km285 cm552
Inakawa Ski Area Suberotta30 km254 cm713
Tengamori Ski Area33 km423 cm140
Uenono Ski Area35 km175 cm1306

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 36% 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.

79cm
Dec
98cm
Jan
62cm
Feb
35cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 金山 weather station — 7.1 km from this ski area, 212 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average513 cm
2023/24412 cm
2024/25597 cm
2025/26530 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 280 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

1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 30.6 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
神室柳原源泉0.9 km30.6℃ lukewarm8.2 mildly alkaline——

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
Mount Kamuro神室山Mountain8.7 km
Kabusan Prefectural Natural Park加無山県立自然公園Nature11.4 km
まむろがわ温泉 梅里苑Hot spring town11.4 km
Akinomiya Hot Springs秋ノ宮温泉郷Hot spring town13.4 km
瀬見温泉Hot spring town18.5 km
Shinjō Castle新庄城Historic site19.1 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.

Places to stay nearby

1 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
シェーネスハイム金山¥7,5004.52 149 reviews—【車】東北中央自動車道・新庄新室川ICより約20分【電車】山形新幹線・新庄駅から送迎有(予約制)【飛行機】山形空港

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Stay nearby

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

3 Hotel

Nearest: 6.5 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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