Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. It sits at about 1,048 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 432 cm of snowfall a season, 129th (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. 137 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 | 9.5 / 16.4 | 8.9 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 8.4 / 13.5 | 7.8 |
| 🌤️ 4 Oct | 0 | 9.9 / 17.2 | 11 |
| 🌧️ 5 Oct | 0 | 11.6 / 18.1 | 11.5 |
| 🌧️ 6 Oct | 0 | 11.8 / 17.3 | 14 |
| 🌦️ 7 Oct | 0 | 9.1 / 14.1 | 12.7 |
| 🌤️ 8 Oct | 0 | 8.8 / 16.7 | 9.4 |
Myoko and Joetsu webcams & snow report — all 11 ski areas →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myoko Suginohara | 1.4 km | 357 cm | 268 |
| Akakura Kanko Ski Resort | 1.9 km | 445 cm | 117 |
| Akakura Onsen Ski Area | 2.8 km | 445 cm | 117 |
| Seki Onsen Ski Area | 3.6 km | 689 cm | 19 |
| Kyukamura Myoko | 4.3 km | 445 cm | 117 |
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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 432 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 230 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 560 cm (2.4 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.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
What we have measured at Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort
- Myoko's Snowiest Ski Area Is 14th in Japan. The One on the Ikon Pass Is 101st. Eleven ski areas sit within 16 km of Akakura. Measured over twelve winters, Seki Onsen gets 689 cm and Myoko Suginohara 357 cm — and Seki is the only one of the eleven in Japan's top 50 for both how much snow falls and what that snow is like. Here is what each one actually offers.
Updated: 2 Oct 2026, 12:37