Japan · Nagano

Hakuba Norikura Onsen Ski Resort

白馬乗鞍スキー場
Off season
Official site Lift tickets (official) 2026/27 adult day ticket ¥6,500 at the window (checked 15 Sept)

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Typical snowfall
635cm
Elevation
809–1,278 m
Across
3.0 km

The Wakaguri hot spring rises within the ski area, and day visitors can bathe in its tea-brown water at the Hakuba Alps Hotel and at Norikurasou. The Satomi central slope is a gentle pitch left ungroomed down the middle, so even beginners can ride both groomed and ungroomed snow. A joint lift ticket covers neighbouring Hakuba Cortina, and both areas can be skied in one day. Sources: hakunori.com、go-nagano.net、hakubanorikura.jp (sources read 12 Oct 2026)

Below are links to a road camera on the way up.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
635cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
380cm
The middle winter of the 12: 649 cm. The best: 794 cm.
World rank
30
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
22
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
107
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,061 m, 295 m above the national median.
Quality rank
35
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−3.9°C
Japanese median: −3.5°C
Rain days
16%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
37%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
13km/h
Dryness 42
Frequency 100
Freedom from rain 58
Calm when snowing 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 Cortina1.4 km635 cmsame grid cell30
Tsugaike Kogen2.4 km668 cm21
Hakuba Iwatake5.5 km668 cm21
Hakuba Happo-One8.5 km414 cm155
Hakuba 4712.0 km668 cm21

Compare side by side with Hakuba Cortina and Tsugaike Kogen →

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
19
Run length
11km
Lifts
9
Vertical
469m
Top 1,278 m · base 809 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.Lifts that run far beyond the ski area are cut at the edge of the map.
Run map

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.1 km
Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 1%
East 64%
South 32%
West 3%

65% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.

By difficulty

Easy 7 · 3 km
Intermediate 9 · 6.5 km
Advanced 3 · 1.4 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift9

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

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 45% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 95 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.

189cm
Dec
210cm
Jan
141cm
Feb
95cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 635 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 380 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 794 cm (2.1 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16.

572
380
683
628
696
537
674
786
607
669
794
592
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.

Model estimates: on Japanese mountains they run at about 60% of measured snowfall. Compare ranks, not resort-published totals. How we measure

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.

See the snow in motion

食い荒し 白馬乗鞍温泉スキー場 スカイビューゲレンデ2026.01.06

By: legacyb4outback · 6 Jan

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Hot springs nearby, as analysed

5 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 30.7 °C).

Show the sources
SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
a spring in 小谷村宮ノ下2.6 km18.2℃ cold8 mildly alkaline—1974
a spring in 小谷村小谷村3.1 km15.8℃ cold6.4 neutralbicarbonate1969
a spring in 小谷村坪山3.3 km21℃ cold7.7 mildly alkaline—1974
下里瀬温泉サンテインおたり4.8 km30.7℃ lukewarm8.4 mildly alkaline—1994
a spring in 小谷村4.8 km21℃ cold7.3 neutralchloride, bicarbonate1967

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 (straight line) 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. Some lie over a mountain pass that is closed in winter.

Show the list
PlaceTypeDistance
Chūbu-Sangaku National Park中部山岳国立公園Nature7.1 km
Mount Korenge小蓮華山Mountain8.4 km
Shirouma dai sekkei白馬大雪渓Nature9.3 km
Mount Shirouma白馬岳Mountain10 km
Mount Togakushi戸隠山Mountain16.4 km
Togakushi Shrine戸隠神社Shrine19.4 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

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

Official piste map ↗

Going with children

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

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

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PropertyLowest listed (per person, tax incl.)RatingDistanceGetting there
ペンション シルバーファーン ¥9,0004.57/5 40 reviews1.2 km南小谷駅よりお車で15分
HAKUBA LODGE OMUSUBI ¥36,000—1.2 kmJR 白馬駅よりお車にて約20分(送迎あり)
プチホテル アイリス ¥7,4804.33/5 156 reviews1.3 kmJR大糸線南小谷駅よりバス/中央自動車道岡谷JCTより長野自動車道安曇野IC下車、R147で約80分
わらび平山荘 ¥8,800—1.3 km南小谷駅より車で8分
ジベルニー白馬B&B ¥5,5004.57/5 33 reviews1.5 km白馬山麓、栂池高原、中央駐車場より車で3分、ゴンドラリフト中間駅近く。
奥白馬温泉 ホテルグリーンプラザ白馬 ¥11,2524.28/5 1677 reviews1.7 km上信越道 長野IC オリンピック道路 R148号経由90分/『南小谷駅』より無料送迎バス有り 約20分(予約制)
星降る高原の小さなホテル 白馬ベルグハウス ¥12,6504.52/5 410 reviews1.9 km安曇野IC70分、長野IC70分、糸魚川IC60分、立山黒部アルペンルート扇沢駅から車で約60分、上高地から約120分
松ノ木亭 ¥4,703—2.0 km白馬駅からバスで36分、栂池高原バス停から徒歩7分。JR白馬大池駅から車で10分。
栂池高原ゲストハウス シャトレ・山彦 ¥6,0003.00/5 11 reviews2.0 km南小谷駅よりお車にて約25分
ペンション 神戸っ子 ¥7,5004.72/5 34 reviews2.0 kmJR大糸線白馬大池より車で15分。
PENSION 遊夢 ¥5,4001.00/5 13 reviews2.1 km高速道長野IC60分・安曇野IC90分・糸魚川IC45分白馬方面~栂池高原へ
白馬姫川温泉 アプライジングホテルズ グランジャム栂池 ¥8,0003.69/5 40 reviews2.1 km白馬駅、白馬大池駅よりバス・タクシーにて約15分。下車バス停:栂池高原

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Places to stay on the map

10 places within 12 km of the slopes, as mapped on OpenStreetMap, including small inns and pensions that are on no booking site. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the name for the website or the map.

Nearest: 0.8 km

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Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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