Matsumori Ski Area is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 226–364 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.4 km². 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 386 cm of snowfall a season, 196th (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 Akita, about 38 km away. 35 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 | 15.6 / 22.6 | 7.1 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 16.1 / 22.8 | 8.6 |
| 🌤️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.2 / 18.7 | 8.4 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 10.8 / 20.8 | 8 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.7 / 19.1 | 14.5 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 9.6 / 14.2 | 25.9 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 9 / 14.5 | 17.5 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Rope tow1
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) | 8.5 km | 423 cm | 140 |
| Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area | 13 km | 339 cm | 336 |
| Taiheizan Ski Area Opus | 23 km | 248 cm | 769 |
| Kyowa Snow Park | 25 km | 243 cm | 802 |
| Tazawako Ski Resort | 32 km | 325 cm | 379 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 45% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 53 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 阿仁合 weather station — 10.9 km from this ski area, 175 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 678 cm |
| 2023/24 | 583 cm |
| 2024/25 | 754 cm |
| 2025/26 | 697 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 386 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
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 38 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| セセラギ | 0.8 km | 38℃ warm | 7.6 mildly alkaline | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bear Garden阿仁熊牧場 | Museum | 7.5 km |
| Mount Moriyoshi森吉山 | Mountain | 12.4 km |
| Yasu Falls安の滝 | Nature | 14.7 km |
| Mount Taihei太平山 (秋田県) | Mountain | 16.7 km |
| Taiheizan Prefectural Natural Park太平山県立自然公園 (秋田県) | Nature | 17.3 km |
| Tamagawa Dam玉川ダム (秋田県) | Nature | 18.1 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
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 阿仁の宿 ホテルフッシュ | ¥9,000 | 3.73 112 reviews | 6.4 km | 東北新幹線 盛岡駅→田沢湖線 角館駅→秋田内陸線 秋田内陸縦貫鉄道 阿仁合駅→ホテル（無料送迎）※要予約 |
| 打当温泉「マタギの湯」 | ¥9,000 | 4.44 200 reviews | 7.7 km | 秋田内陸線「阿仁マタギ駅」より2ｋｍ(無料送迎有/要予約） |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28