Nukabira Gensenkyo Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 557–844 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.9 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 175 cm of snowfall a season, 1306th (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. 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 | 8.2 / 13.5 | 15.2 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 9.7 / 16.1 | 11.7 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 9.2 / 15 | 23.6 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 6.6 / 15.9 | 10.5 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 3.8 / 13.7 | 13.1 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 3.5 / 7.8 | 24.3 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 1.9 / 9.7 | 12.6 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Chairlift2
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sahoro | 37 km | 181 cm | 1256 |
| Shintokuyama | 41 km | 164 cm | 1400 |
| Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ski Area | 44 km | 373 cm | 235 |
| Asahidake | 45 km | 345 cm | 308 |
| Oketocho Minamigaoka | 49 km | 149 cm | 1587 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 46 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the ぬかびら源泉郷 weather station — 1.2 km from this ski area, 160 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 264 cm |
| 2023/24 | 247 cm |
| 2024/25 | 268 cm |
| 2025/26 | 276 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 175 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
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
25 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 59.8 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 糠平温泉湯元館 | 0.9 km | 59.6℃ hot | 7.1 neutral | — | 1973 |
| 糠平温泉糠平温泉ホテル | 0.9 km | 52℃ hot | 7.1 neutral | — | 1973 |
| 糠平温泉 | 0.9 km | 49.1℃ hot | 7 neutral | — | 1973 |
| 糠平温泉琴月源泉 | 0.9 km | 47℃ hot | 7.3 neutral | — | 1955 |
| 糠平温泉湯元館・滝の湯源泉 | 0.9 km | 59.8℃ hot | 7.4 neutral | — | 1955 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ぬかびら温泉 | Hot spring town | 1 km |
| ひがし大雪自然館 | Museum | 1.2 km |
| Nukabira Station糠平駅 | Landmark | 1.5 km |
| Nukabira Dam糠平ダム | Nature | 3.5 km |
| Taushubetsu Bridgeタウシュベツ川橋梁 | Landmark | 6.5 km |
| Lake Shikaribetsu然別湖 | Nature | 10.7 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
6 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 湖々路の郷 | ¥8,400 | 5.00 16 reviews | — | とかち帯広空港から車で約1時間40分・帯広駅から十勝バス「ぬかびら源泉郷」行き（約1時間45分／1日4往復） |
| ペンション森のふくろう | ¥9,500 | 4.74 294 reviews | — | 札幌駅から千歳石狩根室本線の特急で３時間／札幌より235ｋｍ |
| 糠平館観光ホテル | ¥9,900 | 3.58 374 reviews | — | ＪＲ 帯広駅から路線バス（十勝バス）で約１時間４０分 |
| 糠平温泉ホテル | ¥12,100 | 4.19 151 reviews | — | 帯広駅より路線バスで１時間半 |
| 山の旅籠 山湖荘 | — | — | — | 帯広駅から路線バス（ぬかびら源泉郷行き）乗車し、約１時間４０分 |
| 東大雪ぬかびらユースホステル | — | — | — | 帯広駅より十勝バスぬかびら源泉郷行で１００分。ぬかびら源泉郷営業所下車。徒歩3分。 |
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Stay nearby
11 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 0.9 km
Nearest first
- ぬかびら源泉郷 湯元館 Hotel 0.9 km
- 糠平温泉 中村屋 Hotel 1 km
- Mori no Fukuro Hotel 1 km
- Primary Stage Motel 1 km
- Sannkosou Hotel 1 km
- Nukabira Youth Hostel Hostel 1.1 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28