Norn Minakami is a ski area in Gunma, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 809–1246 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.7 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 9 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 5.6 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 395 cm of snowfall a season, 171st (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. The nearest city of any size is Maebashi, about 41 km away. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 134 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 | 12.5 / 19 | 5.2 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 14 / 17.4 | 4.3 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.4 / 16.6 | 8.8 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 10.7 / 17.6 | 9.8 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.4 / 20 | 13.6 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 6.5 / 11.7 | 20 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 6 / 12.9 | 11.7 |
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
- Chairlift4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Valley Ski Area | 6.6 km | 395 cm | 171 |
| Okutone | 9.3 km | 207 cm | 1015 |
| Tanigawadake Tenjindaira Ski Area | 9.6 km | 395 cm | 171 |
| Tambara Ski Park | 14 km | 449 cm | 116 |
| Naeba | 14 km | 458 cm | 111 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 52% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
9 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 66 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 新三国新三国 | 2.9 km | 29℃ lukewarm | 7.6 mildly alkaline | simple | — |
| 高原千葉村千葉源泉 | 3.9 km | 25.5℃ lukewarm | 8.9 alkaline | sulphur | — |
| 猿ヶ京湯島 | 3.9 km | 66℃ hot | 7.7 mildly alkaline | — | — |
| 大峰堤の湯 | 4 km | 27.3℃ lukewarm | 9.4 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 上牧新湯1号泉 | 4.4 km | 42.5℃ hot | 7.6 mildly alkaline | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nagurumi Castle名胡桃城 | Historic site | 9.4 km |
| Doai Station土合駅 | Landmark | 10.5 km |
| Mount Tanigawa谷川岳 | Mountain | 10.7 km |
| Tanigawadake Ropeway谷川岳ロープウェイ | Nature | 10.9 km |
| Marble Village Lockheart Castle大理石村ロックハート城 | Historic site | 13.2 km |
| Numata Castle沼田城 | Historic site | 13.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| アジアンキャンプリゾートＴａｐａ | ¥6,000 | 4.00 35 reviews | — | ＪＲ水上駅よりお車で１０分。無料送迎有り（要予約） |
| みなかみアウトドア・ログ＆オートキャンプ場 ＾ | — | — | — | 上牧駅から車で約１１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: 3.6 km
Nearest first
- Pension Be Guest house 3.6 km
- 大峰館 Hotel 4.1 km
- 旅籠しんでん Hotel 4.7 km
- Minakami Ski House Guest house 5.1 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28