Shakotan Town is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 11–120 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.5 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 352 cm of snowfall a season, 286th (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 Sapporo, about 64 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 33 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 | 12.9 / 20.4 | 14.4 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15 / 23.4 | 15.6 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13 / 16.7 | 20 |
| 🌦️ 30 Sept | 0 | 12.4 / 19.4 | 9 |
| 🌧️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.6 / 17 | 19.7 |
| 🌧️ 2 Oct | 0 | 8.9 / 11.4 | 20.5 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 8.3 / 12.5 | 17.9 |
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consadole Niki Ski Park | 22 km | 271 cm | 614 |
| Otaru Tenguyama Ski Area | 33 km | 311 cm | 430 |
| Asarigawa Onsen Ski Resort | 38 km | 311 cm | 430 |
| Kiroro Resort | 40 km | 344 cm | 312 |
| Iwanai Resort | 40 km | 439 cm | 130 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 57% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 52 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 50 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 美国美国温泉2号 | 0.9 km | 40℃ warm | 7 neutral | — | — |
| 古平古平温泉 | 3.2 km | 50℃ 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ローソク岩 | Nature | 10.6 km |
| Cape Shakotan積丹岬 | Nature | 14.4 km |
| Yoichi distillery余市蒸溜所 | Landmark | 19.1 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.
Places to stay nearby
3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 海鮮の宿 みはらし荘 | ¥8,000 | 4.47 102 reviews | — | 小樽駅よりバスにて６０分 |
| お宿 かさい | ¥19,000 | 4.60 48 reviews | — | 余市駅/小樽より１時間１０分 |
| 旅館 美国観光ハウス | ¥36,905 | 5.00 77 reviews | — | JR函館本線 余市駅/小樽より車で６０分・中央バス美国停留所より徒歩２分 |
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Stay nearby
5 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
- 美国観光 Hotel 0.9 km
- Miharashi Hotel 1.6 km
- Hori ryokan Hotel 3.2 km
- 中央旅館 Hotel 4 km
- Refore Shakotan Youth Hostel Hostel 5.8 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28