2022年3月6日 20cm！春のドカ新雪
By: kawaii飛騨かわいスキー場 · 2022-03-05
Hida Kawai Ski Resort is a ski area in Gifu, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 863–1201 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.5 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 6 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 4 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 349 cm of snowfall a season, 298th (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 Kanazawa, about 53 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 72 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
17.6℃
Max wind
4.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
863–1201m
Area
1.5km²
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 | 14.2 / 20.5 | 4.7 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15 / 19.4 | 3.9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.3 / 16.2 | 5 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 10.1 / 22.2 | 7.6 |
| ☁️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.5 / 21.1 | 7.7 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 4.4 / 14.4 | 12.8 |
| 🌤️ 3 Oct | 0 | 3.5 / 14.6 | 11.8 |
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
4
Run length
3.3km
Lifts
4
Vertical
361m
Top 1,213 m · base 852 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.9 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.6°
Which way the slopes face
North 72%
East 14%
South 0%
West 14%
86% 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 1
Intermediate 2
Advanced 1
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
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.
Okumino webcams & snow report — all 14 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
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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
349 cm
per season
Range over three winters
156 cm
267–423 cm. The best winter was 1.6x the worst.
World rank
298
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
123
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
142
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 936 m, 183 m above the national median.
Quality rank
149
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
22%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
22%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
14 km/h
Dryness 0.40
Frequency 0.63
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hida Nagareha Resort | 17 km | 277 cm | 592 |
| Mont Deus Hida-kuraiyama Snow Park | 23 km | 164 cm | 1400 |
| Hida Funayama Snow Resort Arkopia | 28 km | 164 cm | 1400 |
| Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort | 29 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area | 31 km | 233 cm | 858 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 38% 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 41 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.
93cmDec
109cmJan
79cmFeb
41cmMar
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amō Pass天生峠 | Mountain | 10.6 km |
| Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama白川郷・五箇山の合掌造り集落 | Old streets | 15.6 km |
| Shirakawa-gō白川郷 | Old streets | 15.7 km |
| Hikaru Museum光ミュージアム | Museum | 16.5 km |
| Miboro Dam御母衣ダム | Landmark | 18.4 km |
| Takayama Jin'ya高山陣屋 | Historic site | 19.5 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 ↗ Coordinates: 36.2350, 137.0777
Places to stay nearby
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| やまびこ館 | — | 4.00 25 reviews | — | JR角川駅よりお車にて約20分※送迎あり要予約 ／ 東海北陸自動車道飛騨清見ICから約20分 |
| 民泊ＴＯＭＯ／民泊 | — | — | — | 角川駅よりお車にて約２０分 |
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Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28