気持ちいい〜！晴れたオグナほたかスキー場の絶景パウダー！ドローン男子空撮
By: ドローン男子 7sky creative · 2 Feb
Japan · Gunma
Oguna Hotaka Ski Area
オグナほたかスキー場
Off season Opens 25 Dec (resort’s announcement)
Official site Lift tickets (official) 2026/27 adult day ticket ¥5,900 1-day (adult) (checked 19 Oct)
No snow on the ground or falling right now. The 2026/27 season is planned to open on 25 Dec (the resort’s announcement; it moves with the snow). Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
Opens
25 Dec
Typical snowfall
252cm
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
- Elevation
- 1,242–1,803 m
- Across
- 3.1 km
This season so far (1 Nov to 9 Nov): 3 cm. The average for these dates is under 10 cm, so we do not give a percentage yet. The average is over twelve winters on the same weather model. Across Japan →
The signature Hotaka Skyway is an intermediate run down a ridge, and it doubles as an SAJ-certified giant slalom and slalom course. Fresh snow is left on the Training course, while the Wedeln course goes ungroomed, so moguls build up on it as the season goes on. Sources: k-hotaka.jp (sources read 13 Oct 2026; an AI draft the site operator has not yet checked)
How much snow it gets
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
252cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
158cm
The middle winter of the 12: 248 cm. The best: 318 cm.
World rank
712
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
193
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
53
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,377 m, 611 m above the national median.
Quality rank
55
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−7.3°C
Japanese median: −3.6°C
Rain days
10%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
15%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17km/h
Average daily peak, 10 m above ground across a model grid cell; not the wind on ridges or lift tops
Dryness 67
Frequency 43
Freedom from rain 75
Calm when snowing (model grid) 97
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kawaba Ski Resort | 4.5 km | 423 cm | 144 |
| Katashina Kogen Ski Resort | 5.9 km | 252 cmsame grid cell | 712 |
| White World Oze Iwakura | 6.0 km | 252 cmsame grid cell | 712 |
| Tambara Ski Park | 7.7 km | 423 cm | 144 |
| Hodaigi Ski Resort | 9.2 km | 291 cm | 514 |
Compare side by side with Kawaba Ski Resort and Katashina Kogen Ski Resort →
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
14
Run length
9.6km
Lifts
6
Vertical
560m
Top 1,803 m · base 1,242 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.8 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.8°
Which way the slopes face
North 10%
East 47%
South 33%
West 9%
57% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.
By difficulty
Easy 5 · 3.7 km
Intermediate 5 · 4.3 km
Advanced 4 · 1.6 km
Lift types
- Chairlift6
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 50 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
61cmDec
83cmJan
58cmFeb
50cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 252 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 158 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 318 cm (2.0 times as much).
247
158
295
249
257
244
239
318
240
258
315
205
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live cameras
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Minakami webcams & snow report — all 8 ski areas →
Videos
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Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 29.5 °C).
Show the sources
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 花咲越沢の湯 | 4.5 km | 29.5℃ lukewarm | 8.4 mildly 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
Within 20 km in a straight line, nearest first. Some lie over a pass that is closed in winter.
Show the list
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Hotaka武尊山 | Mountain | 3.9 km |
| Yagisawa Dam矢木沢ダム | Nature | 17.4 km |
| Doai Station土合駅 | Landmark | 18.5 km |
| Numata Castle沼田城 | Historic site | 18.6 km |
| Oze尾瀬 | Nature | 18.9 km |
| Nagurumi Castle名胡桃城 | Historic site | 19.8 km |
Chosen from the places most read about on Wikipedia, favouring those with an English article. 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.
Going with children
- Kids’ area
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
- Childcare
- Not checked
- Parking
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
- Rental
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
Checked on the official site (13 Oct 2026) · Source. “Not checked” means we have not looked yet. Compare with other ski areas →
Places to stay nearbyPR
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21 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within about 3 km of this ski area. The table shows the nearest 12 with a listed price.
| Property (links to Rakuten Travel) | Lowest listed (per person, tax incl.) | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| シャレー モンテローザ | ¥14,850 | 5.00／5 449 reviews | 1.9 km | 関越自動車道【沼田インターチェンジ】からお車で約40分 オグナほたかスキー場ゲートすぐ手前左側 |
| 民宿 永井荘 | ¥3,000 | — | 2.5 km | 沼田インターより車で30分 |
| ペンション てんとう虫 | ¥11,000 | 5.00／5 38 reviews | 2.8 km | 沼田I.Cより日光方面へ50分。 |
| ペンション・ラパン | ¥5,000 | 4.50／5 16 reviews | 2.9 km | 関越道沼田ICより車で40分、JR沼田駅よりバス50分武尊口下車送迎(要連絡) |
| ペンションら・ぱれっと | ¥5,500 | 4.50／5 13 reviews | 3.1 km | 沼田駅より鎌田方面バスにて1時間。武尊口下車。バス停までの送迎あり |
| はっぴぃぺんしょん | ¥6,000 | — | 3.3 km | JR 沼田駅より車で60分 |
| 尾瀬武尊高原 ロッジ大品 | ¥6,000 | 3.60／5 19 reviews | 3.3 km | 上越線 沼田駅より尾瀬方面(バス)武尊口下車(送迎) |
| ペンション つかさ | ¥6,550 | 4.80／5 44 reviews | 3.3 km | JR上越線 沼田駅より鎌田行きバス50分/関越自動車道 沼田ICよりR120号で30分 |
| ペンショングリーンエイジ | ¥7,100 | 4.50／5 12 reviews | 3.4 km | 車:関越自動車道沼田IC-国道120号で約40分、 電車:上越線沼田駅下車 関越バス「鎌田」行きで40分 |
| ロッヂ北澤 | ¥6,600 | 3.88／5 17 reviews | 4.0 km | 沼田駅よりバスにて武尊高原へ。 |
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