Snow Resort Nekoyama is a ski area in Hiroshima, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 697–996 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.0 km². Within 1.4 km of the centre, the map shows 7 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 3.4 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 122 cm of snowfall a season, 1902nd (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 20 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 | 15.3 / 18.9 | 6.4 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15.4 / 19.7 | 5.8 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 13.8 / 18 | 5.4 |
| ☁️ 30 Sept | 0 | 8.8 / 22.3 | 8.1 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 9.7 / 20.9 | 16.3 |
| 🌤️ 2 Oct | 0 | 6.9 / 16.9 | 19.3 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 6.5 / 17.9 | 7.9 |
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
80% 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
- 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.
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dogoyama-Kougen Ski Resort | 2.7 km | 122 cm | 1902 |
| Kenmin no Mori Ski Area | 13 km | 134 cm | 1759 |
| Ibukinosato Ski Area | 24 km | 129 cm | 1815 |
| Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area | 39 km | 155 cm | 1512 |
| Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort | 44 km | 192 cm | 1148 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 49% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 18 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 14 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ひばごん郷温泉 | 1.8 km | 14℃ cold | — | radioactive (radon) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hiba-Dōgo-Taishaku Quasi-National Park比婆道後帝釈国定公園 | Nature | 4.9 km |
| Okuizumo Orochi Loop奥出雲おろちループ | Landmark | 9.1 km |
| Mount Azuma吾妻山 (広島県・島根県) | Mountain | 15.5 km |
| 斐乃上温泉 | Hot spring town | 16.7 km |
| 鯉ヶ窪湿原 | Nature | 19.4 km |
| 雄橋 | Landmark | 19.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 比婆山温泉 | ¥8,000 | 3.43 95 reviews | 7.6 km | ＪＲ備後落合駅よりタクシーで１０分 ／中国道・東城ＩＣから３０～４０分／庄原ＩＣから３０分北上 |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28