Kutsuki Snow Park is a ski area in Shiga, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 470–583 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.0 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 3 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 1.4 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 127 cm of snowfall a season, 1843rd (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. 20 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 | 17.1 / 20.5 | 6.6 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 17 / 22 | 6.2 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 14.8 / 17.3 | 5.6 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 12.5 / 21.6 | 11.9 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 12.2 / 23.6 | 16 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 11.3 / 17.9 | 22.1 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 10.3 / 17.7 | 14.8 |
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
100% 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.
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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 13 km | 122 cm | 1902 |
| Biwako Valley | 13 km | 106 cm | 2098 |
| Ohana Resort | 27 km | 151 cm | 1565 |
| Akoyama Skijo Snowpal | 35 km | 162 cm | 1429 |
| Yogo Kogen Resort | 45 km | 269 cm | 624 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 21% 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 11 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 25.8 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 朽木温泉(仮称) | 2.6 km | 25.8℃ lukewarm | 8.16 mildly alkaline | alkaline simple | 1992 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 興聖寺 (高島市) | Temple | 3.5 km |
| Shirahige Shrine白鬚神社 | Shrine | 8.8 km |
| 近江舞子 | Nature | 10.9 km |
| Kumagawa-juku熊川宿 | Old streets | 13.3 km |
| Okishima沖島 | Nature | 17.6 km |
| Myōtsū-ji Temple明通寺 | Temple | 18.6 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
4 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| グリーンパーク想い出の森 山荘くつき | ¥6,000 | 4.25 21 reviews | — | JR京都駅からJR湖西線安曇川駅下車、路線バス約30分 |
| 山里暮らし交房 風結い | ¥7,600 | 4.89 22 reviews | — | ＪＲ湖西線「安曇川」駅よりお車にて約１５分 |
| 比良山系の麓のＬＯＤＧＥ Ｇｅｌａｎｄｅ（自然の中の山小屋風一軒家） ＾ | ¥10,904 | — | — | 安曇川駅から車で約１９分 |
| グリーンパーク想い出の森バンガロー | ¥20,000 | 4.64 50 reviews | — | ＪＲ 安曇川駅からバスで約３０分 |
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Stay nearby
6 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 3.6 km
Nearest first
- 一棟貸し棚田の古民家 庵じゅ～る Chalet 3.6 km
- 料理旅館 可以登楼 Hotel 7 km
- Ebisu-sou Hotel 7.6 km
- 長浜屋 Hotel 7.7 km
- STAGEX高島 Hotel 11.8 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28