【4K SKI JAPOW】かぐらスキー場｜2026Season｜滑走コース紹介（Kagura Ski Resort）-2025/3/6
By: Real Japan Nature · 2026-03-17
🇯🇵 Japan · Niigata
Kagura
かぐらスキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️ Official site Lift tickets (official) Last season (2025/26) adult day ticket ¥7,500 Kagura 1-day (Kagura, Mitsumata and Tashiro) · this season's price not yet published (as of 16 Sept) Kagura is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. It runs from 550 m at the base to 1845 m at the summit. 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 593 cm of snowfall a season, 43rd (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 Maebashi, about 56 km away. 3 official live cameras are linked below. 135 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
14℃
Max wind
6.9km/h
Elevation
550–1845m
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 | 10.2 / 16.7 | 7.2 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 12.5 / 15.9 | 7.2 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 9.4 / 13.3 | 6.9 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 7.4 / 17 | 7.3 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 8.2 / 17.1 | 8.9 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 3.2 / 8.6 | 18.1 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 2.5 / 8.9 | 11.5 |
Live Cameras
On the mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: かぐらスキー場Roads nearby国道17号 ↗From the resort: 5.1 kmOperated by: 北陸地方整備局 長岡国道事務所Roads nearby国道17号 ↗From the resort: 9 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局 高崎河川国道事務所
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Naeba and Kagura webcams & snow report — all 3 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
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
593 cm
per season
Range over three winters
126 cm
545–671 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
43
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
32
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
36
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,500 m, 747 m above the national median.
Quality rank
34
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-6.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
22%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
36%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
19 km/h
Dryness 0.61
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.42
Calm when snowing 0.95
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitsumata Area | 5.9 km | 593 cm | 43 |
| Tashiro Area | 6.0 km | 448 cm | 118 |
| Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resort | 6.0 km | 610 cm | 31 |
| Kagura Area | 6.6 km | 543 cm | 58 |
| Naeba | 6.8 km | 458 cm | 111 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 51% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 96 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
161cmDec
189cmJan
134cmFeb
96cmMar
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 38.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 猿倉猿倉の湯 | 3.1 km | 38.5℃ warm | — | — | — |
| 貝掛貝掛 | 3.9 km | 37℃ warm | 6.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Naeba苗場山 | Mountain | 10 km |
| Mount Tanigawa谷川岳 | Mountain | 11.4 km |
| Kiyotsu Gorge清津峡 | Nature | 13.9 km |
| Tanigawadake Ropeway谷川岳ロープウェイ | Nature | 14.3 km |
| Doai Station土合駅 | Landmark | 14.8 km |
| Shima Onsen四万温泉 | Hot spring town | 18.3 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 ↗ Coordinates: 36.8494, 138.8022
Places to stay nearby
7 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ｌｉｔｔｌｅ Ｊａｐａｎ Ｅｃｈｉｇｏ | ¥5,400 | — | — | ＪＲ上越新幹線 越後湯沢駅よりお車にて約２０分 |
| 貝掛温泉 | ¥21,800 | 4.68 311 reviews | — | 越後湯沢駅よりバスにて25分。関越自動車道の湯沢ＩＣよりお車にて15分。 |
| ｐｌａｙ＆ｃｒａｚｙペンション | — | — | — | 越後湯沢駅よりお車にて約２０分 |
| なかじま屋 | — | 4.86 58 reviews | — | 越後湯沢駅より車で２５分（１７ｋｍ） |
| Ｌｉｔｔｌｅ Ｊａｐａｎ（リトルジャパン） | — | — | — | 浅草橋駅（JR中央・総武線、都営浅草線）から徒歩7分 |
| ロッヂモントゼー | — | — | — | 越後湯沢より車で約25分、関越自動車道湯沢ＩＣより約20分 |
| キャシーズイン ホテル＆ロッジ | — | — | — | 車：関越自動車道湯沢ICで降り国道17号を苗場方面。新幹線：越後湯沢駅下車、路線バスにて苗場方面「二居田代」下車。 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28