🇯🇵 Japan · Niigata

Ninox Snow Park

ニノックススノーパーク
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow 🌤️ Official site Lift tickets (official) 2026/27 adult day ticket ¥5,200 at the window (17 Dec – 22 Mar) (checked 15 Sept)

Ninox Snow Park is a ski area in Niigata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 313–957 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 6 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 3.7 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 599 cm of snowfall a season, 38th 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 Niigata, about 39 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 68 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
17.5℃
Max wind
8.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
313–957m
Area
2.2km²

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 Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 14.4 / 18.5 8.4
☁️ 27 Sept 0 17.5 / 22 8.7
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 18.3 / 21.4 7.3
🌧️ 29 Sept 0 12.8 / 18.2 8.7
☀️ 30 Sept 0 12.5 / 21.7 6
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 12.6 / 21.9 17.5
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 9.7 / 13.8 22

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
7
Run length
4.4km
Lifts
3
Vertical
618m
Top 936 m · base 318 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs15.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 7%
East 0%
South 0%
West 93%

Only 7% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 2
Intermediate 3
Advanced 2

Lift types

  • Chairlift3

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.

Official YouTube channel

More than we show here.

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
599 cm
per season
Range over three winters
209 cm
522–731 cm. The best winter was 1.4x the worst.
World rank
38
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
30
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
258
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 517 m, 236 m below the national median.
Quality rank
153
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
34%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
39%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.31
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.97

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Tainai Ski and Snowboard area9.1 km717 cm17
Mikawa Onsen24 km386 cm196
Yokone27 km481 cm83
Sannokura39 km422 cm144
Tenoko Ski Area44 km334 cm349

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 31% 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 67 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

157cm
Dec
215cm
Jan
142cm
Feb
67cm
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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Tainaigawa Dam胎内川ダムNature6.5 km
Shimizu-en清水園Park13.5 km
Shibata Castle新発田城Historic site14 km
Tsukioka Onsen月岡温泉Hot spring town15.7 km
五頭山Mountain18 km
Iide Mountains飯豊山地Mountain18.8 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.

Official piste map ↗

Places to stay nearby

1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
奥胎内ヒュッテ——5.3 kmJR 中条駅よりお車にて約50分

Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)

Stay nearby

3 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

2 Hotel 1 Hostel

Nearest: 5.3 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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