The resort is closed. The city of Yonezawa notes that it stopped taking radiation readings here from fiscal 2017 because the ski area had suspended operations. No announcement of a reopening was found.
Source: www.city.yonezawa.yamagata.jp (checked 13 Oct 2026)
No snow on the ground or falling right now. Not open yet for 2026/27. We have not yet found an official opening date. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
This season so far (1 Nov to 9 Nov): 1 cm. The average for these dates is under 10 cm, so we do not give a percentage yet. The average is over twelve winters on the same weather model. Across Japan →
Kuriko International Ski & Resort is a ski area in Yamagata. Compared with Yonezawa Snow World, the nearest ski area (4.7 km), it gets 80 cm more snow in a season, and its snowfall days are 0.5°C colder.
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yonezawa Snow World | 4.7 km | 253 cm | 704 |
| Tengendai Kogen | 13.0 km | 379 cm | 206 |
| Grandeco Snow Resort | 17.0 km | 379 cm | 206 |
| Onogawa Onsen | 18.0 km | 314 cm | 430 |
| Yokomuki Onsen Ski Area | 19.0 km | 296 cm | 496 |
Compare side by side with Yonezawa Snow World and Tengendai Kogen →
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.
93% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
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.
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 (52%). In amount, March brings 55 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 333 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 151 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 487 cm (3.2 times as much).
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
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3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 46.7 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 新五色新五色源泉 | 3.4 km | 39.5℃ warm | 6.4 neutral | — |
| 五色3号 | 3.5 km | 46.7℃ hot | 6.7 neutral | simple |
| 笠松鉱泉笠松源泉 | 3.8 km | 18.5℃ cold | 7.2 neutral | simple |
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
Within 20 km in a straight line, nearest first. Some lie over a pass that is closed in winter.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Takayu Onsen高湯温泉 | Hot spring town | 9.7 km |
| Mount Azuma-kofuji吾妻小富士 | Mountain | 10.8 km |
| Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum米沢市上杉博物館 | Museum | 16.1 km |
| Yonezawa Castle米沢城 | Historic site | 16.3 km |
| Iizaka Onsen飯坂温泉 | Hot spring town | 17.2 km |
| Yonezawa Uesugi clan cemetery上杉家廟所 | Historic site | 17.6 km |
Chosen from the places most read about on Wikipedia, favouring those with an English article. 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.
The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.
We have not yet checked the family facilities (kids’ area, childcare, parking, rental) on the official site.
6 places within 12 km of the slopes, as mapped on OpenStreetMap, many of them small inns and pensions. Many are not on booking sites — open the name for the website or the map.
Nearest: 0.7 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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