Hyper Bowl Tohachi is a ski area in Hyogo, Japan. It sits at about 833 m above sea level. There is no settled snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. Averaged over the last twelve winters, the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 200 cm of snowfall a season, 1149th (tied) of the 3,069 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. 19 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌧️ 2 Oct | 0 | 12.1 / 17 | 9.8 |
| 🌤️ 3 Oct | 0 | 10.2 / 15.9 | 8.7 |
| 🌤️ 4 Oct | 0 | 10.1 / 19.5 | 6.5 |
| 🌦️ 5 Oct | 0 | 14.2 / 19.7 | 8.2 |
| 🌦️ 6 Oct | 0 | 10.9 / 15.9 | 13.9 |
| 🌦️ 7 Oct | 0 | 9.8 / 16.3 | 16.2 |
| 🌤️ 8 Oct | 0 | 9.2 / 17.2 | 12.7 |
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How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across the 393 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sky Valley Ski Area | 0.7 km | 197 cm | 1174 |
| Hachikogen Ski Resort | 2.8 km | 237 cm | 810 |
| Mikata Snow Park | 3.5 km | 235 cm | 823 |
| Hyounosen Kokusai Ski Resort | 4.1 km | 205 cm | 1105 |
| Hachikita Kogen | 4.8 km | 235 cm | 823 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 43% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 29 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 200 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 51 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 313 cm (6.1 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
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Guides covering Hyogo
- We Rank Daisen 308th in Japan for Snow. A Weather Station 500 m Away Measured 677 cm. Western Japan's ski areas look thin in our data — a median of 125 cm against a national 249 cm. Against 16 Japan Meteorological Agency stations, the model we use returns 44% of what the ground records there. The region is far snowier than our own numbers say.
Updated: 2 Oct 2026, 12:37