Mikasayama Esashi is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 32–116 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.7 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 2 marked runs and 1 lift, totalling about 1.2 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 239 cm of snowfall a season, 827th (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. 16 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 | 9.2 / 15.9 | 18.5 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 13.7 / 18.4 | 19.5 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 10.9 / 17.6 | 28.2 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 9.5 / 17.4 | 11.5 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 8.7 / 16.2 | 26.2 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 6.7 / 10.8 | 29.6 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 5.6 / 10.6 | 14.9 |
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
Only 7% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nakatonbestucho Eikotobuki | 23 km | 252 cm | 733 |
| Otoineppu Otoifuji | 33 km | 262 cm | 653 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 41 cm, about the same as 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Kitami Kamui北見神威岬 | Nature | 14.6 km |
| 中頓別鍾乳洞 | Nature | 18.8 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.
Places to stay nearby
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 枝幸温泉 ホテル ニュー幸林 | ¥7,450 | 4.10 522 reviews | — | 稚内より国道238号線経由で2時間半／枝幸バスターミナルから徒歩約15分／JR宗谷本線「音威子府」駅より車で約60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