Honokidaira Ski Area is a ski area in Gifu, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1212–1533 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.5 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 16 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 8.8 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 334 cm of snowfall a season, 349th (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 Matsumoto, about 44 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 105 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 | 12.7 / 18 | 5.8 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 11.6 / 16.6 | 8.6 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 10.6 / 13.6 | 5.1 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 6.6 / 18.7 | 6.8 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.2 / 17.3 | 5.6 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 4.2 / 12 | 13.1 |
| 🌤️ 3 Oct | 0 | 3.7 / 13.4 | 6.4 |
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
88% 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
- Chairlift5
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
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Norikura and Hida webcams & snow report — all 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hida Takayama Municipal Ski Resort | 6.0 km | 334 cm | 349 |
| Hirayu Onsen Ski Area | 6.3 km | 362 cm | 260 |
| Blue Resort Norikura | 12 km | 303 cm | 470 |
| Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort | 25 km | 303 cm | 470 |
| Hida Funayama Snow Resort Arkopia | 26 km | 164 cm | 1400 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 22.8 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 乗鞍温泉峠の湯 | 0.6 km | 7.7℃ cold | 5.6 mildly acidic | carbon dioxide | 1964 |
| 乗鞍温泉みこしの湯 | 1.6 km | 9.6℃ cold | 5.3 mildly acidic | carbon dioxide | 1964 |
| 銚子温泉 | 3.3 km | 22.8℃ cold | 6.5 neutral | — | 1967 |
| a spring in 丹生川村 | 3.4 km | 22℃ cold | 6.4 neutral | bicarbonate | 1957 |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Norikura乗鞍岳 | Mountain | 9 km |
| Mount Yake焼岳 | Mountain | 10.7 km |
| Shirahone Onsen白骨温泉 | Hot spring town | 12.4 km |
| Kamikōchi上高地 | Mountain | 15.3 km |
| Hida Mountains飛騨山脈 | Mountain | 19.3 km |
| Hotaka Mountains穂高岳 | Mountain | 19.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| わんわんパラダイス 高山（旧：高山わんわんパラダイス ホテル＆コテージ） | ¥8,841 | 4.42 1069 reviews | — | JR高山線 高山駅／長野自動車道 松本ICより約55km／中部縦貫自動車道 高山ICより約30km |
| ロッヂことぶき | — | — | — | 高山駅よりお車にて約４０分 |
| 朴の木平ロッヂ シュプール | — | — | — | ＪＲ 高山駅より平湯方面行きバスにて４０分。朴の木平スキー場にて下車 |
| ジョイフル朴の木 | — | — | — | ＪＲ 高山駅よりお車で約４０分 |
| ペンション いしみず | — | — | — | 国道１５８号線沿い 平湯トンネルより高山方面９．５ｋｍ 高山へ２６ｋmｍ |
| ロッヂあるぺん | — | — | — | 高山駅よりバスにて４０分、久手停下車より徒歩にて２分 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28