新潟県六日町八海山スキー場【前が見えないくらいのパウダー】ファーストトラック！ドローン男子空撮
By: ドローン男子 7sky creative · 2026-02-12
🇯🇵 Japan · Niigata
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
八海山スキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️ Official site Lift tickets (official) Last season (2025/26) adult day ticket ¥6,000 regular price (20 Dec – 29 Mar) · this season's price not yet published (as of 15 Sept) Muikamachi Hakkaisan is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 419–1138 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.6 km². Within 2.4 km of the centre, the map shows 13 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 11 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 738 cm of snowfall a season, 10th 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. The nearest city of any size is Maebashi, about 81 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 128 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
19.2℃
Max wind
9.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
419–1138m
Area
2.6km²
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 | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 27 Sept | 0 | 16.6 / 21.3 | 7.1 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 17.7 / 20.8 | 9.4 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13.3 / 17.6 | 8.4 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 12.4 / 21.3 | 6.9 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.3 / 20.6 | 7.2 |
| 🌧️ 2 Oct | 0 | 8.9 / 13.4 | 8.1 |
| 🌤️ 3 Oct | 0 | 7.2 / 15.1 | 7.2 |
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.
Marked runs
13
Run length
11km
Lifts
4
Vertical
810m
Top 1,168 m · base 358 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.6 km
Steepest pitch33°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.7°
Which way the slopes face
North 3%
East 3%
South 69%
West 25%
Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Novice 1
Easy 6
Intermediate 4
Advanced 2
Lift types
- Chairlift3
- Cable car1
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Minami-Uonuma webcams & snow report — all 6 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
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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.
Seasonal snowfall
738 cm
per season
Range over three winters
274 cm
634–908 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.
World rank
10
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
7
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
220
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 683 m, 70 m below the national median.
Quality rank
119
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
30%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
42%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
12 km/h
Dryness 0.38
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 1.00
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hakkai Sanroku Ski Area | 4.7 km | 492 cm | 75 |
| Itsukamachi Ski Area | 8.4 km | 492 cm | 75 |
| Koide Ski Area | 13 km | 438 cm | 132 |
| Yakushi Ski Area | 13 km | 586 cm | 47 |
| Muica Snow Resort | 14 km | 547 cm | 56 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 39% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 101 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
210cmDec
256cmJan
177cmFeb
101cmMar
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 27.6 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 城内城内 | 2.7 km | 25.1℃ lukewarm | 8.5 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 柳古新田 | 4.9 km | 27.6℃ lukewarm | 9 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 大和町大崎湯咲花源泉 | 4.9 km | 27℃ lukewarm | 9.2 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.
Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hakkaisan Ropeway八海山ロープウェー | Nature | 0.1 km |
| Mount Hakkai八海山 | Mountain | 3.7 km |
| Mount Echigo-Komagatake越後駒ヶ岳 | Mountain | 8.1 km |
| Echigo Sanzan-Tadami Quasi-National Park越後三山只見国定公園 | Nature | 9.6 km |
| 湯之谷温泉郷 | Hot spring town | 12.3 km |
| Mount Makihata巻機山 | Mountain | 15.4 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 ↗ Coordinates: 37.1163, 138.9848
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ペンション カム | ¥5,300 | 4.43 92 reviews | — | 車：関越道・六日町ICから車で約20分／電車：上越線六日町駅から八海山スキー場行きバスで約25分 |
| ペンション村上 | ¥7,000 | 5.00 5 reviews | — | JR浦佐駅－上越線 JR五日町駅よりタクシーで約15分 ／ 六日町ICより車で約20分 |
| ペンション わかい | — | 4.50 46 reviews | — | ＪＲ六日町駅／上越新幹線 浦佐駅／関越道 六日町ＩＣより２０分 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28