Kanazawa Municipal Ski Resort is a ski area in Ishikawa, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 406–533 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.7 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 6 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 1.8 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 320 cm of snowfall a season, 391st (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 Kanazawa, about 11 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 48 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 | 17.2 / 21.8 | 4.8 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 17.6 / 21.4 | 7.6 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 15.1 / 19.1 | 5.2 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 12.8 / 22.1 | 11.6 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.8 / 21.9 | 17.8 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 9 / 17.2 | 12.4 |
| ☀️ 3 Oct | 0 | 8.3 / 18 | 10 |
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
66% 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
- Chairlift2
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IOX-AROSA | 5.5 km | 320 cm | 391 |
| Hakusan Senjo Onsen Seymour Ski Area | 21 km | 482 cm | 82 |
| Tonami Yumenotaira Ski Ground | 25 km | 251 cm | 741 |
| SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort | 30 km | 510 cm | 66 |
| Ookuradake Kogen Ski Area | 33 km | 248 cm | 769 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 24% 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 29 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 39.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 蓮如温泉 | 2.4 km | 24℃ cold | 8.6 alkaline | bicarbonate | 1973 |
| 湯涌温泉湯涌温泉1号泉 | 4.5 km | 32.5℃ lukewarm | 7.6 mildly alkaline | chloride, sulphate | 1958 |
| 湯涌温泉湯涌温泉2号泉 | 4.5 km | 39.5℃ warm | 7.4 neutral | chloride, sulphate | 1958 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yuwaku Onsen湯涌温泉 | Hot spring town | 4.4 km |
| Iōzen医王山 | Mountain | 4.5 km |
| Kenroku-en兼六園 | Park | 9 km |
| Kanazawa Castle金沢城 | Historic site | 9.3 km |
| 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art金沢21世紀美術館 | Museum | 9.3 km |
| Shirayama Hime Shrine白山比咩神社 | Shrine | 14.5 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
11 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ＫＲ Ａｐａｒｔｍｅｎｔ ｉｎ Ｋａｎａｚａｗａ／民泊 | ¥3,747 | — | 7.2 km | 野町駅から車で約１１分 |
| ＢＥＡＮＳ ＳＴＡＹ石引 | ¥4,250 | — | 7.6 km | ＪＲ 金沢駅よりお車にて約１３分 |
| 金沢・銭がめ温泉 銭がめ | ¥11,550 | 4.91 39 reviews | 4.8 km | ＪＲ 金沢駅より北鉄バス東口７番のりば【湯涌温泉行き】乗車、【湯涌温泉】下車。約４０分 |
| お宿 やました | ¥11,600 | 4.79 102 reviews | 4.6 km | 金沢駅よりバス45分、小松空港よりバス乗り継ぎ100分、北陸自動車道～金沢環状道路経由車30分 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 日本料理 さかえや | ¥14,300 | 4.16 172 reviews | 4.5 km | 金沢西ＩＣよりお車で約30分 / 金沢駅より「湯涌温泉行バス」約40分 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 湯の出旅館 | ¥17,325 | 4.63 477 reviews | 4.1 km | 兼六園より車で25分、金沢駅より車で約40分。金沢森本I.Cから山側環状経由で30分。 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 山音（やまね） | ¥17,600 | 3.94 250 reviews | 4.4 km | JR金沢駅よりお車で30分 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 百楽荘 | ¥18,172 | 4.67 769 reviews | 4 km | ★金沢中心街より車で20分★「金沢駅・兼六園」より“無料送迎”！お帰りは金沢駅近くへ荷物お届けサービス◎手ぶら観光もOK |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 古香里庵 | ¥18,700 | 4.64 41 reviews | 4.4 km | 金沢駅よりお車にて約40分 |
| いっぷく／民泊 | ¥19,210 | — | 8.1 km | 野町駅から車で約１０分 |
| アローザ温泉 イオックスヴァルト | ¥21,580 | 4.78 30 reviews | 6.6 km | 福光インターから車で１５分・小矢部インターから車で２０分／福光駅から車で１５分・金沢駅から車で４０分 |
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Stay nearby
111 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28