🇯🇵 Japan · Gifu

Meiho Ski Resort

めいほうスキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Meiho Ski Resort is a ski area in Gifu, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 899–1395 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 3.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 18 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 13 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 193 cm of snowfall a season, 1139th (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. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 66 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Base depth

0cm

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

16.1℃

Max wind

8.4km/h

Elevation (est.)

899–1395m

Area

3.2km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 10/10

Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
🌧️ 27 Sept	13.3 / 18.3	7.3
🌧️ 28 Sept	13.5 / 17.4	8.4
🌧️ 29 Sept	11.7 / 14.5	4.4
☁️ 30 Sept	8.4 / 20.3	10.3
☁️ 1 Oct	8 / 19.3	10.5
🌦️ 2 Oct	4.5 / 14.2	17.5
🌤️ 3 Oct	3.9 / 15.2	13.7

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.

Marked runs

Run length

13km

Lifts

Vertical

678m

Top 1,577 m · base 899 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map3.9 km

Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 8%

East 79%

South 13%

West 0%

87% 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

Easy 4

Intermediate 5

Advanced 3

Other 6

Lift types

Chairlift5

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

On the mountainSlope camera on the official home page ↗Operated by: めいほうスキー場 Roads nearby国道41号 ↗From the resort: 17.5 kmOperated by: 中部地方整備局高山国道事務所

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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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.

Seasonal snowfall

193 cm

per season

Range over three winters

123 cm

126–249 cm. The best winter was 2.0x the worst.

World rank

1139

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

282

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,193 m, 440 m above the national median.

Quality rank

269

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-3.9°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

20%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

10%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

18 km/h

Dryness 0.42

Frequency 0.29

Freedom from rain 0.48

Calm when snowing 0.96

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
WhitePIA Takasu	8.1 km	233 cm	858
Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area	8.5 km	233 cm	858
Washigatake Ski Area	8.9 km	233 cm	858
Shirao Ski Area	10.0 km	233 cm	858
Motai Onsen Ski Resort	12 km	164 cm	1400

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 48% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 28 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

48cm

Dec

58cm

Jan

40cm

Feb

28cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

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
Bokka no Sato牧歌の里	Park	10.1 km
ひるがの高原	Nature	12.9 km
Shōkawa-zakura荘川桜	Nature	16.1 km
Mount Dainichi大日ヶ岳	Mountain	18.1 km
Field Museums of Kokindenju no Sato古今伝授の里フィールドミュージアム	Museum	18.2 km
Amidaga Falls阿弥陀ケ滝	Nature	19.1 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 ↗

Nearby resorts

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

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
和風ペンション　ゆの里せせらぎ	¥7,700	—	—	長良川鉄道　郡上八幡駅から６０分／東海北陸自動車道を郡上八幡ＩＣで下車、せせらぎ街道を飛騨高山方面へ車で３０分
リゾートペンション四季彩	¥10,500	4.65 101 reviews	—	東海北陸道　郡上八幡ICよりせせらぎ街道（Ｒ４７２号）を高山方面約３０分　明宝温泉とめいほうスキー場の間
ＧＲＡＣＥ　ＢＡＬＭ（グラースバルム）	¥26,000	3.50 73 reviews	—	東海北陸自動車道　郡上八幡ＩＣよりＲ４７２（せせらぎ街道）を高山方面へ約３０分