Shirao Ski Area is a ski area in Gifu, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 717–1242 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.2 km². Within 2 km of the centre, the map shows 9 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 6.2 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 233 cm of snowfall a season, 858th (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. 56 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 | 14.5 / 19.3 | 7.6 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15.3 / 18.7 | 7.9 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13.4 / 16.2 | 4.9 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 8.8 / 21.8 | 10 |
| ☁️ 1 Oct | 0 | 7.4 / 20.2 | 12.8 |
| ☁️ 2 Oct | 0 | 5.2 / 16.8 | 13.1 |
| ☀️ 3 Oct | 0 | 4.6 / 16.6 | 13.2 |
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 17% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift5
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motai Onsen Ski Resort | 4.0 km | 164 cm | 1400 |
| Washigatake Ski Area | 5.0 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| WhitePIA Takasu | 5.8 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area | 8.5 km | 233 cm | 858 |
| Meiho Ski Resort | 10.0 km | 193 cm | 1139 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 38% 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. In amount, March brings 27 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
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 15 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 蛭ヶ野鉱泉 | 4.9 km | 15℃ cold | 5.8 mildly acidic | — | 1955 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bokka no Sato牧歌の里 | Park | 9.4 km |
| ひるがの高原 | Nature | 11.5 km |
| Amidaga Falls阿弥陀ケ滝 | Nature | 12.8 km |
| Mount Dainichi大日ヶ岳 | Mountain | 14.5 km |
| Gujō Hachiman Castle郡上八幡城 | Historic site | 16.4 km |
| Shōkawa-zakura荘川桜 | Nature | 20 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
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ペンション リトルパイン | — | — | — | 長良川鉄道美濃白鳥駅下車／東海北陸自動車道白鳥ＩＣより車で１０分 |
| うすけ Ｕｓｕｋｅ Ｍｉｎｐａｋｕ ＾ | — | — | — | 美濃白鳥駅から車で約９分 |
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Stay nearby
1 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28