八海山麓スキー場の魅力がつまったPV、ご覧ください!!
By: hakkaisanroku · 29 Mar
No snow yet. Not open yet for 2026/27. We have not yet found an official opening date. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
Typical snowfall
451cm
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
- Elevation
- 212–415 m
- Across
- 1.1 km
The No. 2 course is the one used for official races, and on race days it can be closed for the morning. The ski school takes gate-training lessons at any time. Urasa Station on the Joetsu Shinkansen is about ten minutes away by car. Sources: hakkai36.com, niigata-kankou.or.jp (sources read 12 Oct 2026; an AI draft the site operator has not yet checked)
How much snow it gets
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
451cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
239cm
The middle winter of the 12: 419 cm. The best: 676 cm.
World rank
107
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
48
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
308
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 322 m, 444 m below the national median.
Quality rank
273
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−0.5°C
Japanese median: −3.6°C
Rain days
44%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
31%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
14km/h
Average daily peak, 10 m above ground across a model grid cell; not the wind on ridges or lift tops
Dryness 18
Frequency 90
Freedom from rain 35
Calm when snowing (model grid) 100
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 leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muikamachi Hakkaisan | 4.7 km | 728 cm | 5 |
| Koide Ski Area | 8.0 km | 370 cm | 226 |
| Yakushi Ski Area | 8.5 km | 532 cm | 72 |
| Muica Snow Resort | 15.0 km | 546 cm | 67 |
| Chateau Shiozawa Ski Area Yoshizato | 18.0 km | 546 cm | 67 |
Compare side by side with Muikamachi Hakkaisan and Koide Ski Area →
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
6
Run length
3.3km
Lifts
2
Vertical
202m
Top 415 m · base 212 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.9 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.1°
Which way the slopes face
North 0%
East 1%
South 78%
West 21%
Only 1% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (78%).
By difficulty
Easy 1 · 0.7 km
Intermediate 3 · 2 km
Advanced 2 · 0.5 km
Lift types
- Chairlift2
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
The most snow falls in January. March brings 30% 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 50 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
124cmDec
165cmJan
111cmFeb
50cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 451 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 239 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 676 cm (2.8 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
676
366
509
405
390
239
448
505
396
395
648
433
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.
Live cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Minami-Uonuma webcams & snow report — all 5 ski areas →
Videos
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What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 小出 weather station — 7.7 km from this ski area, 206 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 596 cm |
| 2023/24 | 412 cm |
| 2024/25 | 699 cm |
| 2025/26 | 676 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 492 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
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 27.6 °C).
Show the sources
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 大和町大崎湯咲花源泉 | 4.2 km | 27℃ lukewarm | 9.2 alkaline | alkaline simple |
| 柳古新田 | 4.4 km | 27.6℃ lukewarm | 9 alkaline | alkaline simple |
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
Within 20 km in a straight line, nearest first. Some lie over a pass that is closed in winter.
Show the list
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Hakkaisan Ropeway八海山ロープウェー | Nature | 4.7 km |
| Mount Hakkai八海山 | Mountain | 7.4 km |
| Niigata Prefectural Road Route 50新潟県道50号小出奥只見線 | Landmark | 8.3 km |
| Echigo Sanzan-Tadami Quasi-National Park越後三山只見国定公園 | Nature | 9.2 km |
| Mount Echigo-Komagatake越後駒ヶ岳 | Mountain | 9.6 km |
| Mount Makihata巻機山 | Mountain | 20 km |
Chosen from the places most read about on Wikipedia, favouring those with an English article. 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.
Coordinates: 37.1583, 138.9758
Getting there
- By train
- Urasa Station (JR Joetsu Shinkansen): about 10 minutes by car
- By car
- about 15 minutes from Koide IC (Kan-Etsu Expressway); about 5 minutes from Yamato Smart IC (ETC only)
Source: hakkai36.com · checked 1 Nov 2026. Shuttle days and times change with the season; check the official site before you go.
Going with children
- Kids’ area
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
- Childcare
- Not checked
- Parking
- Not checked
- Rental
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
Checked on the official site (12 Oct 2026) · Source. “Not checked” means we have not looked yet. Compare with other ski areas →
Places to stay on the map
1 places within 12 km of the slopes, as mapped on OpenStreetMap, many of them small inns and pensions. Many are not on booking sites — open the name for the website or the map.
Nearest: 10.1 km
Show the nearest places
Nearest first
- 駒の湯温泉 駒の湯山荘 10.1 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗ · Rakuten Travelad ↗
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