Shiga Kogen Shibutoge Ski Area is a ski area in Gunma, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 2075–2258 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.2 km². Within 0.8 km of the centre, the map shows 5 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 3.2 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 341 cm of snowfall a season, 322nd (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 32 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 139 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 | 6 / 12 | 6.4 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 7.1 / 11 | 10.9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 5 / 8.1 | 10.3 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 1.9 / 13.9 | 5.2 |
| ☁️ 1 Oct | 0 | 3.7 / 13.5 | 10.3 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | -2.2 / 4.7 | 16.5 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | -2.9 / 6.7 | 7.4 |
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
88% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift1
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
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Kusatsu and Manza webcams & snow report — all 5 ski areas →
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shiga Kogen Yokoteyama Ski Area | 1.6 km | 341 cm | 322 |
| Shiga Kogen Kumanoyu Ski Area | 3.0 km | 341 cm | 322 |
| Manza Onsen | 4.1 km | 253 cm | 722 |
| YAMABOKU Wild Snow Park | 5.8 km | 253 cm | 722 |
| Shiga Kogen | 5.9 km | 253 cm | 722 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 68% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 69 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 95 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 硯川 | 3.1 km | 68℃ hot | — | sulphur | — |
| 熊の湯 | 3.4 km | 46.2℃ hot | 6.4 neutral | — | — |
| 万座鈴湯 | 3.9 km | 95℃ hot | 2 acidic | iron, acidic | — |
| 木戸池木戸池1号 | 4.7 km | 42.3℃ hot | 7.2 neutral | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shibu-tōge渋峠 | Nature | 0.6 km |
| Mount Kusatsu-Shirane草津白根山 | Nature | 2.7 km |
| Manza Onsen万座温泉 | Hot spring town | 4 km |
| Shiga Highlands志賀高原 | Nature | 4.4 km |
| Kusatsu Onsen草津温泉 | Hot spring town | 7.9 km |
| Jigokudani Monkey Park地獄谷野猿公苑 | Park | 9.2 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
11 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 横手・山本荘 | ¥6,800 | 3.91 41 reviews | — | ＪＲ 長野駅よりバスで９０分 硯川バス停より車で５分／長野電鉄 湯田中駅よりバスで５０分 硯川バス停より車で５分 |
| 志賀高原 ホテル一望閣 | ¥6,800 | 3.68 283 reviews | — | 上信越道信州中野ＩＣより国道２９２号線にて４５分。ＪＲ長野駅より急行バス８０分又は長電特急電車５０分＆バス利用４５分。 |
| ほたる温泉 ホテルハイツ | ¥7,425 | 3.91 46 reviews | — | 上信越自動車道信州中野ＩＣより約28Ｋｍ約40分。ＪＲ長野駅より志賀高原行バスで７０分 |
| Ｈｏｔｅｌ ＆ Ｏｎｓｅｎ ２３０７ Ｓｈｉｇａｋｏｇｅｎ | ¥7,600 | 3.75 153 reviews | — | 中野ICより車で４５分。湯田中駅よりバスにて４５分。硯川バス停下車１分徒歩。 |
| ニュー横手 | ¥8,250 | 5.00 17 reviews | — | 長野電鉄「湯田中駅」から路線バスで約５０分。陽坂バス停より徒歩約５分。 |
| 志賀パレスホテル | ¥8,250 | 3.48 281 reviews | — | 長野電鉄湯田中駅 ／ 湯田中より長電バスにて５０分 |
| 志賀高原ロッヂ | ¥8,600 | 4.33 58 reviews | — | 湯田中駅からバスで45分ほたる温泉下車徒歩5分。信州中野ICから車で約40分。 |
| 志賀高原熊の湯・硯川温泉 にごり湯の宿硯川ホテル | ¥10,000 | 3.83 491 reviews | — | 長野電鉄線 湯田中駅下車 バス４０分／上信越自動車道信州中野ＩＣ 国道２９２号経由３０分 |
| 志賀リバーサイドホテル | ¥11,000 | 3.17 40 reviews | — | 湯田中駅から志賀高原行きバスで６０分 |
| ホテル大六 | ¥12,700 | — | — | 湯田中駅よりバスで50分 |
| ホテル ラ・フォーレ志賀 | — | 4.59 171 reviews | — | 上信越自動車道・信州中野ＩＣより車にて３０分、ＪＲ長野駅から長野電鉄線志賀高原行きバスにて７０分 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28