Sakae Club Ski Area is a ski area in Nagano, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 361–808 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.5 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 10 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 6.1 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 569 cm of snowfall a season, 48th (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 Nagano, about 52 km away. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 133 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 | 15.9 / 21.9 | 5 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 16.7 / 20.3 | 5.9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13.4 / 17.9 | 5.6 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 13.1 / 21.7 | 6.4 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 12.8 / 21.6 | 8.5 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 10.2 / 13.8 | 19.5 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 10.1 / 15.9 | 9.3 |
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
Only 40% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
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
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
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Nozawa and Kijimadaira webcams & snow report — all 4 ski areas →
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cupid Valley Ski Area | 7.9 km | 569 cm | 48 |
| New Greenpia Tsunan | 13 km | 610 cm | 31 |
| Nozawa Onsen | 13 km | 510 cm | 66 |
| Nakasato Kiyotsu | 16 km | 610 cm | 31 |
| Togari Onsen Ski Resort | 17 km | 510 cm | 66 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 35% 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 70 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 津南 weather station — 11 km from this ski area, 132 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 987 cm |
| 2023/24 | 817 cm |
| 2024/25 | 1240 cm |
| 2025/26 | 903 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 569 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
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 33.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 宮野原宮野原 | 2.7 km | 33.5℃ lukewarm | 8.6 alkaline | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sakae Village History and Culture Museum栄村歴史文化館 | Museum | 3.5 km |
| Ryūgakubo竜ヶ窪 | Nature | 6.5 km |
| Matsunoyama Onsen松之山温泉 | Hot spring town | 8.3 km |
| Bijinbayashi美人林 | Nature | 12.3 km |
| Nozawa Onsen野沢温泉 | Hot spring town | 13.2 km |
| Kiyotsu Gorge清津峡 | Nature | 17.4 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.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 中条温泉 トマトの国 | ¥11,050 | 4.00 12 reviews | — | ＪＲ飯山線 森宮野原駅よりお車にて約３分 |
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Stay nearby
8 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 0.7 km
Nearest first
- 中条温泉トマトの国 Hotel 0.7 km
- 農家民宿れすとらん ひがし Guest house 5.2 km
- 越後田中温泉 しなの荘 Hotel 5.9 km
- 北野天満温泉 学問の湯 Hotel 7.1 km
- ひなの宿 ちとせ Hotel 8 km
- 白川屋 Hotel 8 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28