Iwakisan Hyakuzawa Ski Resort is a ski area in Aomori, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 296–765 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.0 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 4 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 2.9 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 344 cm of snowfall a season, 312th (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 Aomori, about 39 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 27 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 | 13.1 / 20.5 | 6.8 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 13.6 / 21.6 | 12.8 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.7 / 17 | 11.8 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 9.3 / 19.7 | 8.5 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 8.3 / 15.8 | 17.5 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 7.2 / 11 | 19.7 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 6.1 / 12.4 | 14 |
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
Only 19% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift3
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aomori Spring Resort | 6.3 km | 344 cm | 312 |
| Owani Onsen Ski Resort International Area | 25 km | 267 cm | 635 |
| Kase Ski Area | 30 km | 319 cm | 398 |
| Fujisato Choei Ski Area | 35 km | 227 cm | 891 |
| Moya Hills | 41 km | 418 cm | 150 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 48% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 48 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
6 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 61 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 百沢東岩木山 | 2.2 km | 52℃ hot | 7.8 mildly alkaline | — | — |
| 鶴田長成 | 2.9 km | 27.5℃ lukewarm | 6.9 neutral | — | — |
| 三本柳二号泉 | 3.2 km | 45℃ hot | 6.5 neutral | — | — |
| 嶽嶽 | 4.4 km | 46℃ hot | 2 acidic | iron, acidic | — |
| 黒森常盤野 | 4.7 km | 61℃ hot | 6.6 neutral | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Iwakiyama Shrine岩木山神社 | Shrine | 1.9 km |
| Mount Iwaki岩木山 | Mountain | 3.1 km |
| Ōmori Katsuyama Site大森勝山遺跡 | Historic site | 7.6 km |
| Hirosaki Castle弘前城 | Historic site | 12 km |
| Tsugaru Fujimi Lake津軽富士見湖 | Nature | 13.7 km |
| Japan National Route 339国道339号 | Landmark | 15.5 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
4 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 百沢温泉 和みの宿 富士見荘 | ¥6,600 | 4.30 60 reviews | — | ＪＲ 弘前駅より弘南バス（百沢・嶽行き）に乗り、岩木山神社で下車（約３０分） |
| ＯＴＴＡＢＩＯ | ¥17,400 | — | — | 弘前駅よりお車で約３０分 車でお越しの際は、ハッピィ―百沢温泉を目指していらして下さい。向かいの黒い三角屋根の建物です。 |
| アソベの森いわき荘 | — | — | — | 弘前駅よりバスにて５０分（予約制シャトルバスも有） |
| 旅館 山陽 | — | — | — | 弘前駅よりバスにて４０分 |
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Stay nearby
5 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 2.2 km
Nearest first
- 山陽 Hotel 2.2 km
- 温泉旅館 中野 Hotel 2.3 km
- 富士見荘 Hotel 2.3 km
- 嶽温泉山のホテル Hotel 5 km
- ホテルドラゴンリゾート Hotel 10.9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28