Motai Onsen Ski Resort is a ski area in Gifu, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 791–895 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.6 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 164 cm of snowfall a season, 1400th (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. 56 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 | 15.2 / 20 | 5.7 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15.7 / 19.3 | 6.6 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13.5 / 17.1 | 4 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 9.7 / 22.8 | 8.7 |
| 🌤️ 1 Oct | 0 | 8.4 / 21.2 | 14.2 |
| ☁️ 2 Oct | 0 | 6.2 / 17.9 | 13.1 |
| ☀️ 3 Oct | 0 | 5.4 / 17.8 | 12.1 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Chairlift1
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shirao Ski Area | 4.0 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| Washigatake Ski Area | 8.9 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| WhitePIA Takasu | 9.6 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| Meiho Ski Resort | 12 km | 193 cm | 1139 |
| Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area | 12 km | 233 cm | 858 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 36% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 17 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gujō Hachiman Castle郡上八幡城 | Historic site | 12.5 km |
| Sōgi-sui宗祇水 | Nature | 12.8 km |
| Yoshida River吉田川 (郡上市) | Nature | 13.1 km |
| Bokka no Sato牧歌の里 | Park | 13.3 km |
| ひるがの高原 | Nature | 15.5 km |
| Mount Dainichi大日ヶ岳 | Mountain | 18.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ログランド奥美濃 | ¥25,000 | 4.40 6 reviews | — | ぎふ大和ICから車で約15分 |
| ペンション リトルパイン | — | — | — | 長良川鉄道美濃白鳥駅下車／東海北陸自動車道白鳥ＩＣより車で１０分 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28