Iwate Kogen Snow Park is a ski area in Iwate, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 611–1089 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.3 km². Within 1.3 km of the centre, the map shows 12 marked runs and 6 lifts, totalling about 9.3 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 357 cm of snowfall a season, 268th (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 Morioka, about 18 km away. 3 official live cameras are linked below. 36 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 | 11.7 / 16.8 | 6.2 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 11.8 / 18.6 | 10.6 |
| 🌤️ 29 Sept | 0 | 8.9 / 16 | 10 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 6.7 / 16.8 | 8.2 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 7.1 / 15.4 | 13 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 4.8 / 9.5 | 21.1 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 3.7 / 10.8 | 11.2 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 2% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift5
- Gondola1
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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Appi and Hachimantai webcams & snow report — all 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amihari Onsen Ski Resort | 2.6 km | 386 cm | 196 |
| Shizukuishi Ski Resort | 5.9 km | 386 cm | 196 |
| Hachimantai Resort Panorama Ski Are | 6.9 km | 357 cm | 268 |
| Hachimantai Resort Shimokura Ski area | 8.5 km | 357 cm | 268 |
| Appi Kogen | 17 km | 413 cm | 157 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 67% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 66 cm, more than 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 92.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ぬくもりぬくもりの湯 | 2.5 km | 39.2℃ warm | 8.1 mildly alkaline | simple | — |
| 網張元湯元湯 | 2.6 km | 92.5℃ hot | 5.9 mildly acidic | simple | — |
| 七滝一号泉 | 3.1 km | 65℃ hot | 4.1 mildly acidic | iron | — |
| 玄武若返りの湯 | 3.9 km | 28.2℃ lukewarm | 7.4 neutral | — | — |
| 大松倉沢 | 4.6 km | 44℃ hot | 5.5 mildly acidic | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Iwate岩手山 | Mountain | 4.5 km |
| Matsukawa Geothermal Power Plant松川地熱発電所 | Landmark | 6.7 km |
| Koiwai Farm小岩井農場 | Nature | 9.2 km |
| Gosho Dam御所ダム | Nature | 15.4 km |
| Akita-Komagatake秋田駒ヶ岳 | Mountain | 15.4 km |
| Hachimantai八幡平 | Mountain | 17.8 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
6 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ペンション 山賊 | ¥6,000 | 2.50 18 reviews | — | 盛岡駅よりバスで６０分 |
| ＨＡＩＪＩ | ¥7,700 | — | — | バス：雫石駅よりあねっこバス（予約制）にて約３０分。お車：東北道盛岡ＩＣ下車し網張方面へ約４０分。 |
| ペットと泊まれる宿・ペンション ベルクレール ＆ ステンドグラス工房 | ¥11,500 | 4.67 59 reviews | — | 小岩井まきば園から信号なしで15㎞。東北自動車道盛岡ＩＣから小岩井経由約4０分 |
| 休暇村 岩手網張温泉 | ¥13,000 | 4.38 489 reviews | — | ＪＲ 盛岡駅⇔網張温泉 宿泊者専用無料シャトルバス ※要予約 |
| ペンション さんりんしゃ | — | — | — | 盛岡駅より小岩井農場経由網張温泉行きバスで６０分、岩手高原下車。 |
| あみはりロッヂ | — | — | — | 東北新幹線 盛岡駅下車バス６０分／東北自動車 盛岡ＩＣからR46経由で３０分 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28