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Hakodateyama Ski Resort

箱館山スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

No Snow ☁️ Official site

Hakodateyama Ski Resort is a ski area in Shiga, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 561–663 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 9 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 2.8 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 122 cm of snowfall a season, 1902nd (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. 3 official live cameras are linked below. 23 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

18.4℃

Max wind

7.7km/h

Elevation (est.)

561–663m

Area

1.2km²

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	Temp	Wind
🌧️ 27 Sept	16.4 / 19.2	7.7
🌧️ 28 Sept	16.7 / 20.5	6.4
🌧️ 29 Sept	14.9 / 16.4	7.1
🌤️ 30 Sept	11 / 20.2	13.1
🌦️ 1 Oct	9.8 / 22	18.5
🌦️ 2 Oct	10.3 / 16.9	22.5
☁️ 3 Oct	9.6 / 16.6	14.9

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

Run length

2.8km

Lifts

Vertical

133m

Top 684 m · base 551 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.5 km

Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs13.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 1%

East 38%

South 20%

West 41%

Only 39% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 3

Intermediate 4

Advanced 2

Lift types

Chairlift4
Gondola1

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

Roads nearby国道27号 ↗From the resort: 11.3 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局福井河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道161号 ↗From the resort: 15 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局福井河川国道事務所

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.

Official YouTube channel

More than we show here.

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

122 cm

per season

Range over three winters

71 cm

78–149 cm. The best winter was 1.9x the worst.

World rank

1902

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

362

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

224

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 661 m, 92 m below the national median.

Quality rank

363

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-1.4°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

39%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

24 km/h

Dryness 0.25

Frequency 0.22

Freedom from rain 0.35

Calm when snowing 0.90

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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Kutsuki Snow Park	13 km	127 cm	1843
Ohana Resort	14 km	151 cm	1565
Akoyama Skijo Snowpal	24 km	162 cm	1429
Biwako Valley	26 km	106 cm	2098
Yogo Kogen Resort	33 km	269 cm	624

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 17% 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 8 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

37cm

Dec

48cm

Jan

33cm

Feb

8cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 10 winters

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
Lakefront Village of Sugaura菅浦の湖岸集落	Old streets	14.4 km
Chikubu Island竹生島	Nature	14.5 km
Hōgon-ji Temple宝厳寺	Temple	14.5 km
Tsukubusuma Shrine都久夫須麻神社	Shrine	14.6 km
Mikata Five Lakes三方五湖	Nature	17.4 km
Shirahige Shrine白鬚神社	Shrine	18.4 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 ↗

Nearby resorts

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Places to stay nearby

16 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
家族旅行村ビラデスト今津	¥2,800	3.67 48 reviews	—	京都東ICより車で90分／敦賀・小浜より車で50分／北陸自動車道　木之本ICより車で50分
民宿　いづみや	¥5,940	5.00 7 reviews	—	近江今津駅
民宿やまそ	¥6,000	—	—	JR近江今津駅から総合運動公園線バス「三谷」下車、徒歩約5分
ＡＲＣＨ　ＨＯＵＳＥ　ＴＡＫＡＳＨＩＭＡ	¥7,200	—	—	ＪＲ湖西線　近江今津駅よりお車で約１５分
フォレストヴィライーリオびわ湖　＾	¥7,842	—	—	近江中庄駅から車で7分
一棟貸しの別荘　Ａｈｏｕｓｅ　＾	¥8,816	—	—	近江中庄駅から車で約９分
民宿　やまげん＜滋賀県＞	¥13,000	4.00 9 reviews	—	近江今津駅より車で１０分
森のかくれ宿　シープ	¥18,150	—	—	国道303号小浜・上中方面より約40分
箱館山麓大空荘／民泊	¥18,792	—	—	近江今津駅から車で12分
ｃｏｔｔａｇｅ　樹樹	—	—	—	ＪＲ　近江今津駅より湖国バス運動公園線伊井バス停下車後、徒歩にて１0分
丸仁館	—	—	—	近江今津駅からバスにて１５分、中庄駅より車にて11分でお越しいただけます。思わず「ただいま」と言いたくなるような宿
可愛い山小屋風　ログハウス　＾	—	—	—	近江今津駅から車で約１４分

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Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
焚き火、薪ストーブが楽しめる木々に囲まれた家　＾	—	—	—	近江今津駅から車で約１５分
ｂｅａｕ　ｌａｃ　ｂｉｗａｋｏ　＾	—	—	—	近江今津駅から車で約１６分
Ｗｅｓｔ　Ｌａｋｅ　Ｖｉｌｌａ　Ｉｍａｚｕ　Ｕｍｅｈａｒａ／民泊	—	—	—	近江今津駅から車で約１７分
ワンちゃんと貸し別荘レイクサイドルナ　＾	—	—	—	近江今津駅から車で約１０分