Higashigaoka Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 13–67 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.4 km². 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 207 cm of snowfall a season, 1015th (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 14 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 27 Sept | 0 | 11.2 / 16.5 | 23.9 |
| ⛈️ 28 Sept | 0 | 12.6 / 21.4 | 16.5 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 11.2 / 17.9 | 29.1 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 10.4 / 17.5 | 11.7 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.7 / 15.8 | 28.6 |
| 🌧️ 2 Oct | 0 | 7.3 / 12.4 | 28.4 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 6.6 / 11.4 | 13 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
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Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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.
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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toyotomi Ski Area | 6.3 km | 207 cm | 1015 |
| Teshio Chomin Ski Area | 13 km | 226 cm | 895 |
| Nakatonbestucho Eikotobuki | 34 km | 252 cm | 733 |
| Sarufutsu Sonei Ski Area | 40 km | 281 cm | 567 |
| Wakkanaishi Komadori Ski Area | 43 km | 276 cm | 600 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 51% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 32 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 豊富 weather station — 10.8 km from this ski area, 26 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 521 cm |
| 2023/24 | 568 cm |
| 2024/25 | 574 cm |
| 2025/26 | 421 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 207 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 豊富温泉 | Hot spring town | 6.1 km |
| Panke-numaパンケ沼 | Nature | 10.9 km |
| Sarobetsu Plainサロベツ原野 | Nature | 13.2 km |
| 川口遺跡 | Historic site | 16.5 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
6 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿旅館サロベツ（サロベツ会館） | ¥5,500 | 3.64 185 reviews | — | 特急のとまるＪＲ幌延駅から徒歩で１分（ＪＲ幌延駅すぐ前です） 稚内空港から車で４０分 旭川から２００Km |
| スマートホテル幌延 | ¥7,500 | 3.44 77 reviews | — | JR宗谷本線幌延駅から徒歩3分 稚内空港から車で約40分 旭川から約200㎞ |
| ビジネスホテル北斗荘＜北海道＞ | — | 4.08 71 reviews | — | JR幌延駅より徒歩5分、幌富バイパス・幌延ICより車で3分、稚内空港より車で約１時間 |
| ビジネス旅館 光栄荘 | — | — | — | 幌延駅より徒歩２分 |
| 民泊たかはし／民泊 | — | — | — | 幌延駅から徒歩で約１分 |
| 民宿名山荘 | — | — | — | 幌延駅より徒歩１１分 |
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Stay nearby
4 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