🇯🇵 Japan · Nagano

Kashimayari Snow Resort

鹿島槍スキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Kashimayari Snow Resort is a ski area in Nagano, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 857–1488 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.6 km². Within 1.3 km of the centre, the map shows 15 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 8.5 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 465 cm of snowfall a season, 103rd (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 Nagano, about 31 km away. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 136 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
15.7℃
Max wind
6.1km/h
Elevation (est.)
857–1488m
Area
2.6km²

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 Snow Temp Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept 0 12.6 / 17.8 6.1
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 13.4 / 17.4 7.8
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 11.4 / 15.2 9.5
☁️ 30 Sept 0 10.5 / 19.5 5.7
☁️ 1 Oct 0 9.4 / 21.1 5
☁️ 2 Oct 0 6.4 / 16.4 8.9
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 5 / 14.2 6.1

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
12
Run length
8.3km
Lifts
5
Vertical
492m
Top 1,333 m · base 842 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.5 km
Steepest pitch39°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 16%
East 41%
South 34%
West 9%

57% 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

Easy 4
Intermediate 5
Advanced 3

Lift types

  • Chairlift5

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

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
465 cm
per season
Range over three winters
234 cm
355–589 cm. The best winter was 1.7x the worst.
World rank
103
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
64
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
85
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,184 m, 431 m above the national median.
Quality rank
101
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
21%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
29%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
10 km/h
Dryness 0.38
Frequency 0.82
Freedom from rain 0.46
Calm when snowing 1.00

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Hakuba Sanosaka Snow Resort2.5 km453 cm112
Jiigatake Snow Resort5.3 km465 cm103
Hakuba Goryu7.1 km465 cm103
Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba477.3 km453 cm112
Hakuba 478.0 km718 cm13

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 47% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 67 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

131cm
Dec
143cm
Jan
98cm
Feb
67cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 大町 weather station — 8.6 km from this ski area, 388 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average240 cm
2023/24262 cm
2024/25333 cm
2025/26126 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 465 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

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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Lake Nakatsuna中綱湖Nature1.3 km
Lake Aoki青木湖Nature2.2 km
Lake Kizaki木崎湖Nature4.8 km
Kurobe Gorge黒部峡谷Nature13.9 km
Kurobe Dam黒部ダムLandmark15.4 km
Mount Tsurugi剱岳Mountain19.1 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

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

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
鹿島槍スポーツヴィレッジ¥3,0003.86 51 reviews—長野自動車道安曇野ICよりお車にて60分。
マウンテン ロッジ Wiz(ウィズ)¥4,5004.67 113 reviews—中央道経由安曇野IC・関越道経由長野ICより約60分/JR大糸線簗場駅より徒歩15分/鹿島槍スキー場まで0分
やまなか館¥5,0004.80 46 reviews—JR大糸線 やなば駅/長野道豊科ICより車で40分
WHITE HOTEL GRAND HAKUBA¥5,5004.33 10 reviews—JR大糸線簗場(やなば)駅より送迎10分/長野自動車道|安曇野IC・上信越自動車道|長野ICより約60分
フォレスト イン 上手屋(わでや)¥6,500——車:長野道豊科ICより北アルプス山麗エリアへ40分 電車:JRやなば駅より徒歩5分
ラウム山荘¥7,5004.80 21 reviews—JR大糸線「簗場駅」より徒歩15分。(送迎あり、到着時間をお知らせください。)国道148号線。
プチペンション アルファ¥9,7904.25 95 reviews—長野道安曇野I.Cから50分 青木湖畔 
Lakeside villa SUI HAKUBA¥30,000——簗場駅より徒歩11分、安曇野ICより車で約50分
民宿 柏屋———JR大糸線・簗場駅より徒歩7分/長野自動車道・豊科IC白馬方面
民宿 中綱館—4.40 111 reviews—JR大糸線 簗場駅下車徒歩約3分/長野道 安曇野ICよりR147経由 白馬方面
LODGE GRAMP———電車:JR大糸線簗場駅より徒歩19分 車:安曇野インターより52分 白馬より19分
カントリーイン キャンプ———JR簗場駅/中央道-長野道豊科IC下車-北アルプスパノラマ道路-R148-やなば

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Stay nearby

1 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

1 Hotel

Nearest: 1.3 km

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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