Hiraya Kogen Ski Area is a ski area in Nagano, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 960–1015 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.5 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 5 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 1.4 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 61 cm of snowfall a season, 2694th (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. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 48 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 | 15.3 / 18.9 | 5.2 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15 / 19.5 | 8.1 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13.5 / 16.1 | 4.7 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 12.9 / 22.2 | 9.4 |
| 🌤️ 1 Oct | 0 | 11.1 / 21.2 | 19.1 |
| 🌤️ 2 Oct | 0 | 9.4 / 18.2 | 20.3 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 9.8 / 17.3 | 10.6 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
89% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift2
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. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
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.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
Southern Nagano webcams & snow report — all 3 ski areas →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jibusaka Ski Area | 6.9 km | 94 cm | 2280 |
| Chausuyama Kogen Ski Area | 10 km | 61 cm | 2694 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in February. March brings 79% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 15 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chausuyama茶臼山 (愛知県・長野県) | Mountain | 9.1 km |
| Mount Ena恵那山 | Mountain | 15.5 km |
| Iwamura Castle岩村城 | Historic site | 16.9 km |
| Hirugami Onsen昼神温泉 | Hot spring town | 18.6 km |
| Tenryū-Okumikawa Quasi-National Park天竜奥三河国定公園 | Nature | 19.1 km |
| Tamoto Station田本駅 | Landmark | 19.9 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
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ファームイン根羽 ＾ | ¥4,250 | — | — | 阿木駅から車で約５０分 |
| 山村体験宿泊施設 けいしょう館 せせらぎコテージ | — | — | — | 中央自動車道飯田山本ＩＣよりお車にて３０分 |
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Stay nearby
13 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