Megahiraonsen Megahira Ski Area is a ski area in Hiroshima, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 573–1005 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.7 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 10 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 6.9 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 80 cm of snowfall a season, 2458th (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. 13 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 | 16.3 / 19.4 | 6.4 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 14.7 / 19.8 | 9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 14.2 / 18.6 | 5 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 13.8 / 22.3 | 8.7 |
| ☁️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.3 / 20.2 | 14.9 |
| ☁️ 2 Oct | 0 | 7.8 / 17.1 | 17.1 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 7.4 / 17.6 | 6.9 |
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
84% 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
- Chairlift3
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.
Geihoku (Hiroshima) webcams & snow report — all 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osorakan Snow Park | 11 km | 133 cm | 1772 |
| Yawata Highland 191 Resort | 22 km | 139 cm | 1712 |
| Geihoku Kokusai | 25 km | 139 cm | 1712 |
| Osa Ski Resort | 29 km | 139 cm | 1712 |
| Utopia Saioto | 36 km | 137 cm | 1730 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 44% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 12 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Woodone Museum of Artウッドワン美術館 | Museum | 0.8 km |
| Nishi-Chugoku Sanchi Quasi-National Park西中国山地国定公園 | Nature | 3.6 km |
| 湯来温泉 | Hot spring town | 9.9 km |
| Jakuchikyō寂地峡 | Nature | 10.3 km |
| Mount Osorakan恐羅漢山 | Mountain | 11 km |
| Sandan-kyō三段峡 | Nature | 13.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 女鹿平温泉クヴェーレ吉和 | ¥8,800 | 4.50 115 reviews | — | ＪＲ広島駅新幹線口より石見交通益田行バスで約85分吉和ＳＡ下車。ＳＡから無料送迎有／中国自動車道 吉和ＩＣより車で３分 |
| Ｖｉｌｌａ Ｍａｔｉｌｄａ ＾ | ¥12,946 | — | — | 宮内串戸駅から車で56分 |
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Stay nearby
1 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