Itsukamachi Ski Area is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 155–488 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.8 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 8 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 3.6 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 492 cm of snowfall a season, 75th (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 Nagano, about 83 km away. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 128 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 | 17.8 / 24.1 | 6.3 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 18.6 / 22.3 | 5.6 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 15.5 / 20.1 | 6 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 14.8 / 22.9 | 7.1 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 11.1 / 23.4 | 6.9 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 11.6 / 15.8 | 11 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 10.4 / 18 | 9.1 |
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
92% 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
- Chairlift4
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
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
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Minami-Uonuma webcams & snow report — all 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muica Snow Resort | 7.3 km | 547 cm | 56 |
| Muikamachi Hakkaisan | 8.4 km | 738 cm | 10 |
| Hakkai Sanroku Ski Area | 8.5 km | 492 cm | 75 |
| Chateau Shiozawa Ski Area Yoshizato | 9.5 km | 547 cm | 56 |
| Koide Ski Area | 13 km | 438 cm | 132 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 28% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 44 cm, about the same as 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 27.6 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 河原沢鉱泉河原沢 | 0.9 km | 11℃ cold | — | sulphur | — |
| 柳古新田 | 4.2 km | 27.6℃ lukewarm | 9 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 大和町大崎湯咲花源泉 | 4.4 km | 27℃ lukewarm | 9.2 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 一水口一水口 | 4.7 km | 26℃ lukewarm | — | simple | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hakkaisan Ropeway八海山ロープウェー | Nature | 8.5 km |
| Untō-an Temple雲洞庵 | Temple | 10.3 km |
| Mount Hakkai八海山 | Mountain | 12.1 km |
| Tōkamachi City Museum十日町市博物館 | Museum | 12.1 km |
| Mount Echigo-Komagatake越後駒ヶ岳 | Mountain | 16.4 km |
| Mount Makihata巻機山 | Mountain | 17.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 割烹旅館 いろは亭 | ¥6,480 | 4.67 228 reviews | — | JR上越線・五日町駅より徒歩約5分／上越新幹線・浦佐駅より車で約10分／関越自動車道・六日町ICより車で約10分 |
| オーベルジュ みずあかり | ¥11,385 | 4.56 85 reviews | — | 六日町駅よりお車で約１２分 関越自動車道六日町ＩＣより約１０分 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28