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Jeunesse Kurikoma Ski Area

ジュネス栗駒スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Jeunesse Kurikoma Ski Area is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 292–681 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 14 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 9.6 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 444 cm of snowfall a season, 125th (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 71 km away. 44 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

18.1℃

Max wind

7.6km/h

Elevation (est.)

292–681m

Area

2.2km²

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	Temp	Wind
☁️ 27 Sept	15 / 21.1	10.7
🌧️ 28 Sept	16.5 / 22.9	9.7
🌦️ 29 Sept	12.2 / 18.5	10.5
🌤️ 30 Sept	11.1 / 19.5	12.9
🌧️ 1 Oct	11.6 / 19.8	17.7
🌧️ 2 Oct	9.1 / 12.8	26.4
🌦️ 3 Oct	7.9 / 12.9	16.4

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

Run length

9.6km

Lifts

Vertical

381m

Top 771 m · base 390 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.6 km

Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 20%

East 6%

South 5%

West 69%

Only 26% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 6

Intermediate 4

Advanced 3

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.

See the snow in motion

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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.

Seasonal snowfall

444 cm

per season

Range over three winters

54 cm

421–475 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.

World rank

125

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

265

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 489 m, 264 m below the national median.

Quality rank

177

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-2.4°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

25%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

31%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

23 km/h

Dryness 0.31

Frequency 0.87

Freedom from rain 0.36

Calm when snowing 0.91

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
Tengamori Ski Area	9.8 km	423 cm	140
Inakawa Ski Area Suberotta	17 km	254 cm	713
Geto Kogen	17 km	404 cm	165
Choei Yuda Ski Area	21 km	374 cm	226
Gosannen Ski Area	28 km	298 cm	495

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 45% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

121cm

Dec

142cm

Jan

97cm

Feb

64cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 36.2 °C).

Source	Distance	Temperature	pH	Type	Analysed
岩井川・なるせジュネス休養センター	2.4 km	36.2℃ warm	7.1 neutral	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
Isawa Dam胆沢ダム	Nature	4.1 km
Geto Onsen no Sekkaika夏油温泉の石灰華	Hot spring town	14 km
Geto Onsen夏油温泉	Hot spring town	14.6 km
Yokote Masuda Manga Museum横手市増田まんが美術館	Museum	16.5 km
Hottoyuda Stationほっとゆだ駅	Landmark	17.8 km
湯田温泉峡	Hot spring town	19.5 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 ↗

Nearby resorts

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Places to stay nearby

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
やまゆり温泉　ホテルブラン	¥8,250	4.50 55 reviews	—	十文字駅からバスにて約３０分／湯沢横手自動車道十文字ICより国道３４２号、国道３９７号

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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.

3 Guest house 2 Hotel

Nearest: 0.5 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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