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Ishizuchi SKi & Snowbaord Resort

石鎚スキー場ピクニック園地
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌦️ Official site

Ishizuchi SKi & Snowbaord Resort is a ski area in Ehime, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1158–1373 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.8 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 3 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 1.1 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 68 cm of snowfall a season, 2608th (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. 3 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Base depth
0cm
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
17.2℃
Max wind
9km/h
Elevation (est.)
1158–1373m
Area
0.8km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 10/10
Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌧️ 27 Sept 0 15.1 / 17.4 8.4
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 15.9 / 19.8 9
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 14.4 / 16.3 5.2
☁️ 30 Sept 0 10.1 / 19.9 6.8
🌦️ 1 Oct 0 10.4 / 19.6 10
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 6.7 / 14.5 12.1
☁️ 3 Oct 0 5 / 14.2 5.2

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.

Marked runs
3
Run length
1.1km
Lifts
5
Vertical
139m
Top 1,400 m · base 1,261 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.6 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.7°

Which way the slopes face

North 36%
East 58%
South 1%
West 5%

94% 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

Novice 1
Easy 1
Intermediate 1

Lift types

  • Chairlift4
  • Cable car1

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.

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.

Seasonal snowfall
68 cm
per season
Range over three winters
69 cm
39–108 cm. The best winter was 2.8x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.
World rank
2608
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
386
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
69
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,271 m, 518 m above the national median.
Quality rank
382
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
26%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
2%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
20 km/h
Dryness 0.40
Frequency 0.06
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.94

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Kuma Ski Land25 km50 cm2808
SOL-FA Oda ski slopes40 km52 cm2789

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 61% 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 14 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

13cm
Dec
23cm
Jan
22cm
Feb
14cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 10 winters

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 16.1 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
石鎚山温泉2 km16.1℃ cold6.5 neutralchloride, bicarbonate, carbon dioxide1992
石鎚山温泉第2源泉(仮称)2.7 km14.6℃ cold6.2 neutralchloride, bicarbonate2003

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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Ishizuchi Tozan Ropeway石鎚登山ロープウェイNature1.2 km
Mount Ishizuchi石鎚山Mountain3.3 km
Yokomine-ji Temple横峰寺Temple5.1 km
Mount Kamegamori瓶ヶ森Mountain5.9 km
Omogo-kei面河渓Nature6.7 km
Besshi copper mine別子銅山Nature19.9 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

3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
石鎚ふれあいの里¥2,9254.54 15 reviews3.9 km伊予小松I.C.より車で約30分、伊予西条I.C.より車で約40分、JR 伊予西条駅→せとうちバス西之川行<ふれあいの里
国民宿舎 石鎚¥8,0004.54 15 reviews8.2 km松山空港より車で約3時間、松山自動車道・松山ICより約2時間30分
石鎚山 土小屋 白石ロッジ——4.7 km松山駅より車で2時間

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Stay nearby

3 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

2 Hotel 1 Guest house

Nearest: 4.4 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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