Japan · Ishikawa

Ookuradake Kogen Ski Area

大倉岳高原スキー場

Off season

No snow yet. Not open yet for 2026/27. We have not yet found an official opening date. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall

215cm

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: 276–504 m
Across: 1.0 km

Run by a Komatsu city foundation, this ski area looks out over the Sea of Japan from the top. It is about 25 minutes by car from central Komatsu, which has both a Shinkansen station and an airport, and in midwinter night skiing is offered on weekday evenings too. Sources: komatsu-ccf.com (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

215cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

86cm

The middle winter of the 12: 224 cm. The best: 325 cm.

World rank

995

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

244

of 397 in Japan

Elevation rank

298

Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 356 m, 410 m below the national median.

Quality rank

369

of 397 in Japan

Temp when snowing

+0.6°C

Japanese median: −3.6°C

Rain days

53%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

16%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

18km/h

Average daily peak, 10 m above ground across a model grid cell; not the wind on ridges or lift tops

Dryness 10

Frequency 46

Freedom from rain 35

Calm when snowing (model grid) 96

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
Hakusan Senjo Onsen Seymour Ski Area	15.0 km	507 cm	82
SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort	16.0 km	526 cm	78
Kanazawa Municipal Ski Resort	33.0 km	314 cm	430
IOX-AROSA	36.0 km	314 cm	430
Fukui Izumi Ski Resort	40.0 km	315 cm	427

Compare side by side with Hakusan Senjo Onsen Seymour Ski Area and SAM Hakusan Ichirino 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

Run length

1.9km

Lifts

Vertical

228m

Top 504 m · base 276 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.7 km

Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs13.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 72%

East 20%

South 0%

West 7%

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

Easy 1 · 0.5 km

Intermediate 3 · 1 km

Advanced 1 · 0.5 km

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 24% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 20 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

54cm

Dec

85cm

Jan

56cm

Feb

20cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 215 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 86 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 325 cm (3.8 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.

278

135

242

260

149

212

253

220

190

325

228

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.

How these figures are made

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.

Roads nearby国道157号 ↗From the resort: 19.8 kmOperated by: 北陸地方整備局金沢河川国道事務所

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Hakusan webcams & snow report — all 3 ski areas →

Videos

本日全面滑走可能

By: hideチャンネル · 23 Jan

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Worth seeing nearby

Within 20 km in a straight line, nearest first. Some lie over a pass that is closed in winter.

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Place	Type	Distance
Awazu Onsen粟津温泉	Hot spring town	10.1 km
Nata-dera Temple那谷寺	Temple	11.2 km
Motorcar Museum of Japan日本自動車博物館	Museum	11.5 km
Yamanaka Onsen山中温泉	Hot spring town	15.3 km
Yamashiro Onsen山代温泉	Hot spring town	15.9 km
Shirayama Hime Shrine白山比咩神社	Shrine	19.4 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.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

Official piste map ↗

Getting there

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Going with children

Kids’ area: Not checked
Childcare: Not checked
Parking: Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
Rental: Not checked

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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2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within about 3 km of this ski area. The table shows the nearest 2 with a listed price.

Property (links to Rakuten Travel)	Lowest listed (per person, tax incl.)	Rating	Distance	Getting there
アノアタリの古民家 ^	¥8,120	—	3.6 km	粟津駅から車で約30分
木風舎プライベートキャンプ&ロッジ ^	¥9,048	—	3.7 km	粟津駅から車で約30分

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Places to stay on the map

14 places within 12 km of the slopes, as mapped on OpenStreetMap, many of them small inns and pensions. Many are not on booking sites — open the name for the website or the map.

Nearest: 5.6 km

Show the nearest places

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

Other booking sites: Booking.com ↗ · Agoda ↗ · Rakuten Travelad ↗

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