🇯🇵 Japan · Nagano

Kisofukushima Ski Resort

木曽福島スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Kisofukushima Ski Resort is a ski area in Nagano, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1265–1903 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 11 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 7.8 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 209 cm of snowfall a season, 996th (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 104 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

13.9℃

Max wind

7.2km/h

Elevation (est.)

1265–1903m

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	Temp	Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept	11.6 / 16.2	5.7
🌧️ 28 Sept	10.7 / 15.2	7.7
🌧️ 29 Sept	9.4 / 12.5	4.2
☁️ 30 Sept	4.1 / 20	11.2
🌤️ 1 Oct	5.6 / 17.7	12.4
☁️ 2 Oct	1.9 / 13.4	12.3
🌤️ 3 Oct	0.7 / 13.7	12.4

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

7.8km

Lifts

Vertical

681m

Top 1,896 m · base 1,215 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 pitch24°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs10.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 10%

East 1%

South 30%

West 59%

Only 11% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 3

Intermediate 2

Advanced 5

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.

Live Cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.

Roads nearby国道19号 ↗From the resort: 9.2 kmOperated by: 中部地方整備局飯田国道事務所

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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Norikura and Hida webcams & snow report — all 9 ski areas →

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.

Seasonal snowfall

209 cm

per season

Range over three winters

73 cm

164–237 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.

World rank

996

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

261

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,591 m, 838 m above the national median.

Quality rank

126

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-6.0°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

14%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

12%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

16 km/h

Dryness 0.57

Frequency 0.34

Freedom from rain 0.64

Calm when snowing 0.98

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
Yabuhara Kogen	5.1 km	166 cm	1385
Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort	12 km	303 cm	470
Mia Ski Resort	15 km	225 cm	901
Blue Resort Norikura	20 km	303 cm	470
Asahi Prime Ski Area	23 km	119 cm	1949

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 84% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 53 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

48cm

Dec

63cm

Jan

59cm

Feb

53cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

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
Yabuhara-juku藪原宿	Old streets	9.8 km
Fukushima-juku福島宿 (中山道)	Old streets	11.1 km
Narai-juku奈良井宿	Old streets	12.3 km
Nomugi Pass野麦峠	Mountain	13.2 km
Mount Ontake御嶽山	Mountain	18.7 km
Nezame-no-toko寝覚の床	Nature	19.6 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

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
ペンションかおる	¥5,600	5.00 31 reviews	—	中央道塩尻ＩＣより約６０分/中津川ICより90分/伊那ICより40分
Ｃｏｃｏ開田高原　＾	¥9,350	—	—	藪原駅より車で39分