Kuzuryu Ski Resort is a ski area in Fukui, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 418–765 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.1 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 8 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 3.9 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 320 cm of snowfall a season, 391st (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 Fukui, about 44 km away. 45 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 | 17.2 / 22.7 | 5.1 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 17.5 / 21.6 | 5.4 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 15.3 / 18.3 | 4.3 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 11.7 / 22.8 | 10.4 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 11.7 / 21.1 | 14 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 7.4 / 17.4 | 19 |
| 🌤️ 3 Oct | 0 | 7 / 18.1 | 9.5 |
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
52% 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
- 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.
Okumino webcams & snow report — all 14 ski areas →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fukui Izumi Ski Resort | 5.3 km | 339 cm | 336 |
| WINGHILLS Shiratori Resort | 16 km | 282 cm | 563 |
| Takasu Snow Park | 22 km | 366 cm | 251 |
| Washigatake Ski Area | 25 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| Shirao Ski Area | 25 km | 233 cm | 858 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 32% 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 34 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 九頭竜 weather station — 1.8 km from this ski area, 155 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 561 cm |
| 2023/24 | 496 cm |
| 2024/25 | 764 cm |
| 2025/26 | 424 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 320 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.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Kuzuryu Dam九頭竜ダム | Nature | 2.9 km |
| 九頭竜温泉 | Hot spring town | 3.2 km |
| Itoshiro Cedar石徹白の大杉 | Nature | 18 km |
| Okuetsu Kōgen Prefectural Natural Park奥越高原県立自然公園 | Nature | 18.6 km |
| Ōno Castle大野城 (越前国) | Historic site | 18.7 km |
| Heisenji Hakusan Shrine平泉寺白山神社 | Shrine | 19.5 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
3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 九頭竜ホテル フレアール和泉 | ¥4,000 | 3.72 25 reviews | — | 越前下山駅より徒歩で15分。中部縦貫道下山ICより車で2分。 |
| ととのい星見庵 | ¥11,100 | — | — | 九頭竜湖駅より車で約3分、中部縦貫道九頭竜ICより約1分 |
| 国民宿舎パークホテル九頭竜 | — | — | — | 九頭竜湖駅より徒歩にて約１５分 |
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Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28