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Hakuba Goryu

白馬五竜
Off season Opens 21 Nov (resort’s announcement)
Official site Lift tickets (official) 2026/27 adult day ticket ¥10,000 at the window (checked 19 Oct)
Layer upon layer of snowy ridges above a village in the valley
Photo: the site operator / 25 January 2025 / Hakuba Goryu (Hakuba, Nagano)

No snow yet. The 2026/27 season is planned to open on 21 Nov (the resort’s announcement; it moves with the snow). Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Opens
21 Nov
Typical snowfall
414cm

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
753–1,640 m

The Toomi slope at the base opens from the morning over New Year and on January–March weekends and holidays, and is lit for night skiing from late December to mid-March. The Escal Plaza base lodge has a hot spring, Ryujin-no-yu, in its basement, and lift tickets, except night tickets, are valid at neighbouring Hakuba47 too. Sources: hakubaescal.com (sources read 11 Oct 2026; reviewed by the editor)

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
414cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
301cm
The middle winter of the 12: 394 cm. The best: 609 cm.
World rank
155
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
73
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
77
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,200 m, 434 m above the national median.
Quality rank
108
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−3.8°C
Japanese median: −3.6°C
Rain days
22%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
27%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
10km/h
Average daily peak, 10 m above ground across a model grid cell; not the wind on ridges or lift tops
Dryness 42
Frequency 78
Freedom from rain 43
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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Hakuba 473.1 km668 cm21
Hakuba Happo-One4.2 km414 cmsame grid cell155
Hakuba Sanosaka Snow Resort4.8 km415 cm153
Hakuba Iwatake6.8 km668 cm21
Kashimayari Snow Resort7.3 km449 cm110

Compare side by side with Hakuba 47 and Hakuba Happo-One →

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
15
Run length
9.6km
Lifts
11
Vertical
887m
Top 1,640 m · base 753 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.7 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs15.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 13%
East 84%
South 4%
West 0%

97% 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

Novice 1 · 0.6 km
Easy 6 · 3.3 km
Intermediate 6 · 4.7 km
Advanced 2 · 1 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift10
  • Gondola1

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.

Official figures: 15 runs, longest 5,000 m, 1 gondola, 11 chairlifts, 926 m vertical, 35% beginner, 40% intermediate, 25% advanced. Source (checked 2 Oct)

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 44% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 61 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.

126cm
Dec
139cm
Jan
88cm
Feb
61cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 414 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 301 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 609 cm (2.0 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.

572
380
419
408
334
301
356
495
343
423
609
327
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.

How these figures are made

Live cameras

On the mountainGoryu slopes (winter cameras) ↗Operated by: 白馬五竜On the mountainGoryu slopes (winter cameras) ↗Operated by: エイブル白馬五竜Roads nearby国道19号 ↗From the resort: 16.6 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局 長野国道事務所Roads nearby国道19号 ↗From the resort: 18.7 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局 長野国道事務所

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Hakuba Valley webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →

Videos

2026-27ナイターシーズン券、9月1日より販売スタート!2026-27 Season Night Skiing Passes, on Sale from September 1st

By: HAKUBA GORYU OFFICIAL · 2 Sept

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Official YouTube channel

More than we show here.

When we went

Video we shot ourselves, with a note from the day (sound removed).

25 January 2025

The best snow I've skied in Nagano. About eight in ten skiers were from overseas. The hot springs in Hakuba afterwards were wonderful.

The site operator

26 January 2025 · Jigokudani Monkey Park (Yamanouchi, Nagano)

Worth a detour if you are skiing in Nagano.

The site operator

Our own photos

The Northern Alps ridgeline and snowy valley floor seen from the top of a lift
Photo: the site operator / 25 January 2025 / Hakuba Goryu (Hakuba, Nagano)
A valley village and snowy mountains, with a lift in the foreground
Photo: the site operator / 25 January 2025 / Hakuba Goryu (Hakuba, Nagano)

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
PlaceTypeDistance
Lake Aoki青木湖Nature5.9 km
Lake Nakatsuna中綱湖Nature7.4 km
Lake Kizaki木崎湖Nature11.8 km
Chūbu-Sangaku National Park中部山岳国立公園Nature11.9 km
Mount Shirouma白馬岳Mountain13.6 km
Kurobe Gorge黒部峡谷Nature15.4 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.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

Getting there

By train
Kamishiro Station (JR Oito Line): about 1.6 km to Escal Plaza; a free shuttle bus runs from mid-December to the end of March (check operating days with the official site)
By car
nearest interchanges are Azumino IC (Nagano Expressway) and Nagano IC (Joshin-etsu Expressway); set the sat-nav to Hakuba Goryu Escal Plaza (0261-75-2101)
Winter roads
winter tyres are required from late November to the end of March

Source: hakubaescal.com · checked 7 Nov 2026. Shuttle days and times change with the season; check the official site before you go.

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Going with children

Kids’ area
Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
Childcare
Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
Parking
Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
Rental
Not checked

Checked on the official site (11 Oct 2026) · Source. “Not checked” means we have not looked yet. Compare with other ski areas →

Places to stay nearbyPR

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161 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within about 3 km of this ski area. The table shows the nearest 12 with a listed price.

Property (links to Rakuten Travel)Lowest listed (per person, tax incl.)RatingDistanceGetting there
北原館 ¥7,000—0.5 km大糸線 神城駅から徒歩で6分
民宿かねかく ¥5,9804.50／5 6 reviews0.6 kmJR神城駅から徒歩約10分
ユースビラ 白馬とおみ ¥5,9851.38／5 23 reviews0.7 km神城駅 高速バス停より徒歩5分
白馬森のわさび農園オートキャンプ場 ¥15,000—0.7 kmJR飯森駅より徒歩約15分、車約4分。JR白馬駅より徒歩約55分、車約8分。長野自動車道 安曇野ICより車約70分。
See遊in和楽 ¥3,4654.43／5 7 reviews0.9 kmJR神城駅より徒歩3分
ペンション シエル ¥7,8004.00／5 29 reviews1.0 kmJR 神城駅よりお車にて3分、徒歩にて10分
コテージホテル フェニーチェ白馬 ¥8,8004.00／5 50 reviews1.0 kmJR大糸線 神城駅より徒歩にて約20分/お車にて約5分
リバーサイドやまや ¥4,0004.20／5 47 reviews1.1 kmJR大糸線 神城駅より徒歩5分/長野自動車道 豊科ICより60分/北陸自動車道 糸魚川ICより60分
ペンショオーネ ランタンリルン ¥8,2005.00／5 11 reviews1.1 kmJR大糸線 神城駅より車で7分、徒歩13分。安曇野ICより車で約60分。
SUNNY SIDE HUT ¥8,300—1.1 km神城駅より徒歩にて10分
Shunkashutoー春夏秋冬ー| Four-Season Vacation Home ^ ¥56,376—1.1 km神城駅から徒歩で1分
民宿 久平荘 ¥6,0004.17／5 62 reviews1.2 kmJR神城駅/中央自動車道安曇野ICより1時間/長野ICからも50分/道の駅すぐ横
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Prices are the lowest Rakuten Travel lists; a property name, or “Pick dates and guests” above, shows prices and rooms for your dates.

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Places to stay on the map

17 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: 1 km

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Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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