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Hakuba Sanosaka Snow Resort

白馬さのさか

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Hakuba Sanosaka Snow Resort is a ski area in Nagano, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 766–1203 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.0 km². Within 1.3 km of the centre, the map shows 10 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 5.5 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 453 cm of snowfall a season, 112th (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. The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 30 km away. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 136 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Base depth

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Snow 24h

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Snow 48h

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Next 24h

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Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

16.6℃

Max wind

5.9km/h

Elevation (est.)

766–1203m

Area

2.0km²

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	12.8 / 19.5	5.9
🌧️ 28 Sept	14.8 / 17.9	6.4
🌧️ 29 Sept	12.1 / 16.7	7.9
☁️ 30 Sept	11.3 / 20.2	5.7
☁️ 1 Oct	9.7 / 21.5	5
🌦️ 2 Oct	6.4 / 16.7	8.8
🌦️ 3 Oct	5.2 / 15	5.6

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

5.5km

Lifts

Vertical

355m

Top 1,146 m · base 791 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 map1.2 km

Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 19%

East 74%

South 6%

West 1%

93% 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

Easy 2

Intermediate 5

Advanced 3

Lift types

Chairlift4

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19号 ↗From the resort: 14.9 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局長野国道事務所

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.

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

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

453 cm

per season

Range over three winters

282 cm

327–609 cm. The best winter was 1.9x the worst.

World rank

112

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

125

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 991 m, 238 m above the national median.

Quality rank

152

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-2.4°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

22%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

27%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

10 km/h

Dryness 0.32

Frequency 0.78

Freedom from rain 0.43

Calm when snowing 1.00

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
Kashimayari Snow Resort	2.5 km	465 cm	103
Hakuba Goryu	4.7 km	465 cm	103
Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba47	4.8 km	453 cm	112
Hakuba 47	5.6 km	718 cm	13
Jiigatake Snow Resort	7.8 km	465 cm	103

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 41% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 56 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

123cm

Dec

135cm

Jan

87cm

Feb

56cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 白馬 weather station — 8.7 km from this ski area, 281 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average	447 cm
2023/24	444 cm
2024/25	648 cm
2025/26	248 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 453 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

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
Lake Aoki青木湖	Nature	1.9 km
Lake Nakatsuna中綱湖	Nature	2.8 km
Lake Kizaki木崎湖	Nature	7.2 km
Kurobe Gorge黒部峡谷	Nature	13.9 km
Kurobe Dam黒部ダム	Landmark	16.8 km
Mount Tsurugi剱岳	Mountain	19.6 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

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
鹿島槍スポーツヴィレッジ	¥3,000	3.86 51 reviews	—	長野自動車道安曇野ICよりお車にて60分。
ＷＨＩＴＥ　ＨＯＴＥＬ　ＧＲＡＮＤ　ＨＡＫＵＢＡ	¥5,500	4.33 10 reviews	—	JR大糸線簗場（やなば）駅より送迎１０分／長野自動車道｜安曇野ＩＣ・上信越自動車道｜長野ＩＣより約６０分
プチペンション　アルファ	¥9,790	4.25 95 reviews	—	長野道安曇野Ｉ.Cから５０分　青木湖畔
雪ノ音　＾	¥17,400	—	—	南神城駅から徒歩で約３分
Ｌａｋｅｓｉｄｅ　ｖｉｌｌａ　ＳＵＩ　ＨＡＫＵＢＡ	¥30,000	—	—	簗場駅より徒歩11分、安曇野ICより車で約50分
ＨＡＫＵＢＡ７６	—	—	—	白馬駅よりお車で約１０分
民宿　まるじう館	—	—	—	関越・上信越自動車道　長野ＩＣ下車、国道１９号線から白馬・長野オリンピック道路経由で約４時間
民宿かね久	—	—	—	南神城駅より徒歩１０分／長野自動車道　豊科ＩＣ・長野ＩＣ・糸魚川ＩＣよりいずれも車で５０分
ロッヂ中峯	—	—	—	ＪＲ大糸線　南神城駅より徒歩５分
民宿　むじなざわ	—	—	—	ＪＲ　南神城駅より徒歩４０分（送迎有り）
白馬ヴューヴィラ　＾	—	—	—	南神城駅から徒歩で約４分
旅館　木塵	—	—	—	ＪＲ　神城駅まで送迎あり