🇯🇵 Japan · Aomori

Kase Ski Area

嘉瀬スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

No Snow ☀️ Official site

Kase Ski Area is a ski area in Aomori, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 20–44 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.3 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 1 marked runs, totalling about 0.2 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 319 cm of snowfall a season, 398th (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 21 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 23 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

19.8℃

Max wind

8.4km/h

Elevation (est.)

20–44m

Area

0.3km²

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	14.3 / 23.3	8.4
🌦️ 28 Sept	17.4 / 26.1	19.5
🌦️ 29 Sept	14.9 / 20	18.6
🌤️ 30 Sept	11.4 / 20	11.2
🌧️ 1 Oct	11.1 / 18	20.8
🌦️ 2 Oct	11.2 / 15.4	35.4
🌦️ 3 Oct	9.9 / 15.3	20.4

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

0.2km

Vertical

28m

Top 50 m · base 22 m

Run map

Other Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.2 km

Steepest pitch13°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs7.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 3%

East 42%

South 55%

West 0%

Only 45% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Other 1

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.

Roads nearby津軽自動車道 ↗From the resort: 6.6 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局青森河川国道事務所

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.

Seasonal snowfall

319 cm

per season

Range over three winters

122 cm

252–374 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.

World rank

398

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

150

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

388

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 52 m, 701 m below the national median.

Quality rank

299

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-1.3°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

26%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

21%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

27 km/h

Dryness 0.24

Frequency 0.60

Freedom from rain 0.35

Calm when snowing 0.86

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	28 km	344 cm	312
Iwakisan Hyakuzawa Ski Resort	30 km	344 cm	312
Moya Hills	31 km	418 cm	150
Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area	38 km	445 cm	124
Yogoshiyama Ski Area	43 km	260 cm	664

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 36% 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 30 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

70cm

Dec

84cm

Jan

59cm

Feb

30cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 五所川原 weather station — 8.4 km from this ski area, 23 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average	379 cm
2023/24	276 cm
2024/25	484 cm
2025/26	377 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 319 cm.

A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.

Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records

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 °C).

Source	Distance	Temperature	pH	Type	Analysed
金木朝日山	3 km	34.6℃ warm	8 mildly alkaline	—	—
老人福祉センター福祉センター	4.6 km	38℃ warm	8.5 alkaline	—	—

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
Osamu Dazai Memorial Museum太宰治記念館「斜陽館」	Museum	3 km
Tachineputa Museum立佞武多の館	Museum	8.4 km
Kamegaoka Stone Age Site亀ヶ岡遺跡	Historic site	11.7 km
Kizukuri Station木造駅	Landmark	11.7 km
Tsugaru Fujimi Lake津軽富士見湖	Nature	16.6 km
Sannai-Maruyama Site三内丸山遺跡	Historic site	20 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

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
民宿と食事処　エンゼル	¥5,500	3.60 54 reviews	4.2 km	津軽鉄道　芦野公園駅／東北自動車道　浪岡ＩＣ下車→津軽道から国道３３９
ＧｕｅｓｔＨｏｕｓｅつがるのへっちょ	¥6,250	—	7.1 km	五所川原北ICより車で5分、津軽鉄道十川駅より徒歩8分、JR五能線五所川原駅より車で6分
稲垣温泉ホテル花月亭	¥8,800	3.90 153 reviews	6.9 km	東北自動車道浪岡IC経由・津軽自動車道五所川原北IC（終点）から車で15分