Minami Furano is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 375–735 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 16 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 3.1 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 223 cm of snowfall a season, 910th (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. 39 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 | 7.7 / 17.5 | 14 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 10.6 / 18.3 | 17.3 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 10.8 / 16 | 24.3 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 8.7 / 16.9 | 11.5 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 5.1 / 14.1 | 15.9 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 4.9 / 8.1 | 20.9 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 2.7 / 9.4 | 13.2 |
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
92% 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
- Chairlift2
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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Furano and Tokachi webcams & snow report — all 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoshino Resorts Tomamu | 12 km | 224 cm | 904 |
| Sahoro | 20 km | 181 cm | 1256 |
| Furano Ski Resort | 22 km | 222 cm | 915 |
| Shintokuyama | 24 km | 164 cm | 1400 |
| Hidaka Kokusai | 33 km | 206 cm | 1025 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 86% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 48 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 幾寅 weather station — 1.9 km from this ski area, 205 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 336 cm |
| 2023/24 | 305 cm |
| 2024/25 | 368 cm |
| 2025/26 | 335 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 223 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ikutora Station幾寅駅 | Landmark | 1.6 km |
| Kanayama Dam金山ダム | Nature | 9.3 km |
| Hoshino Resorts Tomamu星野リゾート トマム | Mountain | 12.1 km |
| Rokugō no Mori麓郷の森 | Leisure | 17.3 km |
| Karikachi Pass狩勝峠 | Nature | 17.5 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.
Places to stay nearby
10 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| フェアフィールド・バイ・マリオット・北海道南富良野 | ¥5,899 | 4.52 60 reviews | — | ノースライナー号「道の駅 南ふらの停留所」から徒歩約2分（完全予約制） |
| Ｃｈａｒｍａｎｔ １Ｂ／民泊 | ¥8,120 | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で2分 |
| Ｃｈａｒｍａｎｔ １Ｃ／民泊 | ¥8,120 | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で2分 |
| Ｃｈａｒｍａｎｔ １Ｄ／民泊 | ¥8,120 | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で2分 |
| Ｃｈａｒｍａｎｔ １Ａ／民泊 | ¥8,120 | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で3分 |
| Ｃｈａｒｍａｎｔ ２Ｂ／民泊 | — | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で2分 |
| Ｃｈａｒｍａｎｔ ２Ｃ／民泊 | — | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で2分 |
| Ｃｈａｒｍａｎｔ ２Ｄ／民泊 | — | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で2分 |
| ＣＨＡＲＭＡＮＴ ２Ａ／民泊 | — | — | — | 幾寅駅より徒歩で2分 |
| スヴァールバルレジデンス／民泊 | — | — | — | 幾寅駅から徒歩で約４分 |
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Stay nearby
4 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 2.2 km
Nearest first
- Fairfield by Marriott Hokkaido Minamifurano Hotel 2.2 km
- かなやま湖ログホテルラーチ Hotel 4.8 km
- かなやま湖保養センター Hotel 5 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28