🇯🇵 Japan · Aomori

Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area

八甲田国際スキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area is a ski area in Aomori, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 651–854 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 3 lifts, totalling about 8 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 445 cm of snowfall a season, 124th 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 Aomori, about 20 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 27 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
16.1℃
Max wind
9.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
651–854m
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 12.3 / 18.4 8.7
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 11.5 / 20.2 15.3
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 9.7 / 14.3 13.4
☁️ 30 Sept 0 9.2 / 16.5 8.7
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 7.9 / 15.4 22.4
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 5.6 / 9 26.9
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 5.2 / 9.8 19.2

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
8km
Lifts
3
Vertical
642m
Top 1,306 m · base 664 m

Run map

Other Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map3.4 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12°

Which way the slopes face

North 26%
East 0%
South 6%
West 68%

Only 26% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Other 7

Lift types

  • Chairlift2
  • Cable car1

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. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

See the snow in motion

八甲田国際スキー場‼️2025年12月28日‼️年末寒波で雪フルフル‼️雪質サイコーよ。青森県‼️

By: GOGO ペドロ Pedro · 2025-12-28

Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.

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
445 cm
per season
Range over three winters
44 cm
425–469 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
124
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
75
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
187
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 791 m, 38 m above the national median.
Quality rank
26
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-5.4°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
10%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
26%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
22 km/h
Dryness 0.53
Frequency 0.74
Freedom from rain 0.74
Calm when snowing 0.91

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
Moya Hills6.9 km418 cm150
Makado Onsen29 km212 cm982
Owani Onsen Ski Resort International Area30 km267 cm635
Yogoshiyama Ski Area30 km260 cm664
Kase Ski Area38 km319 cm398

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 71 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

109cm
Dec
117cm
Jan
92cm
Feb
71cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 酸ケ湯 weather station — 3.5 km from this ski area, 138 m above its mid-slope.

Three-season average1292 cm
2023/241122 cm
2024/251472 cm
2025/261282 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 445 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

4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 90.7 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
寒水沢青葉0.4 km47.3℃ hot6.8 neutral——
田茂萢田茂萢1.8 km24.5℃ cold6.4 neutralsimple—
城ケ倉3号泉2.4 km51℃ hot7.3 neutralsimple—
酸ケ湯ふかしの湯3.4 km90.7℃ hot1 acidiciron, acidic—

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
Hakkōda Ropeway八甲田ロープウェーNature0.4 km
Sukayu Onsen酸ヶ湯Hot spring town3.4 km
Hakkōda Mountains八甲田山Mountain4.2 km
青森自然公園ねぶたの里Nature10.4 km
Aomori Museum of Art青森県立美術館Museum18.3 km
Sannai-Maruyama Site三内丸山遺跡Historic site18.9 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 ↗

Places to stay nearby

3 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
八甲田城ヶ倉温泉 ホテル城ヶ倉-HOTEL Jogakura-¥5,2004.51 403 reviews—JR 青森駅よりJRバス十和田湖行き乗車後、城ヶ倉温泉前にて下車
ベルジャヤ八甲田スキーリゾート¥6,0503.89 124 reviews—JR青森駅からJRバス東北「十和田湖行き」乗車し1時間、八甲田ロープウェー駅前下車 徒歩3分
八甲田山荘¥9,3503.67 24 reviews—JR東北新幹線 新青森駅よりお車にて約60分

Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)

Stay nearby

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

5 Hotel

Nearest: 2.4 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

← Back to home