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Sun Meadows Kiyosato Ski Area

サンメドウズ清里スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Sun Meadows Kiyosato Ski Area is a ski area in Yamanashi, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1569–1829 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.8 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 26 marked runs and 5 lifts, totalling about 17 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 103 cm of snowfall a season, 2146th (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. 3 official live cameras are linked below. 119 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Base depth

0cm

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

13.7℃

Max wind

9.2km/h

Elevation (est.)

1569–1829m

Area

1.8km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 10/10

Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
🌦️ 27 Sept	10.7 / 15.9	8.7
🌧️ 28 Sept	11.1 / 14.9	12.3
🌧️ 29 Sept	10.1 / 12.5	10.3
🌤️ 30 Sept	6.8 / 17.1	9
🌤️ 1 Oct	5.7 / 18.9	7.6
🌤️ 2 Oct	3.7 / 14.5	7.3
🌤️ 3 Oct	3.6 / 12.5	5.9

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.

Marked runs

Run length

5.6km

Lifts

Vertical

269m

Top 1,880 m · base 1,611 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km

Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs10.3°

Which way the slopes face

North 5%

East 85%

South 10%

West 0%

90% 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

Novice 4

Easy 1

Intermediate 4

Advanced 2

Other 3

Lift types

Chairlift3
Platter2

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

On the mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: サンメドウズ清里スキー場 Roads nearby国道20号 ↗From the resort: 15 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局甲府河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道20号 ↗From the resort: 15.7 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局長野国道事務所

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.

Yatsugatake webcams & snow report — all 3 ski areas →

See the snow in motion

サンメドウズ清里で魅せた渾身の大回り #shots #スキー⁠ ⁠#skiing ⁠⁠

By: Ty-chi · 2026-06-07

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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.

Seasonal snowfall

103 cm

per season

Range over three winters

93 cm

55–148 cm. The best winter was 2.7x the worst — a wide swing by our figures.

World rank

2146

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

377

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,703 m, 950 m above the national median.

Quality rank

284

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-4.4°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

12%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

13 km/h

Dryness 0.46

Frequency 0.16

Freedom from rain 0.70

Calm when snowing 1.00

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
Chateraise Ski Valley Nobeyama	8.5 km	103 cm	2146
Fujimi Kougen Snow Resort	9.6 km	112 cm	2024
Chateraise Ski Valley Koumi	12 km	127 cm	1843
Yachiho Kōgen Ski Resort	14 km	127 cm	1843
Pilatus Tateshina Snow Resort	16 km	137 cm	1730

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 43 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.

14cm

Dec

22cm

Jan

30cm

Feb

43cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 10 winters

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
Southern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group八ヶ岳	Nature	4.3 km
Mount Aka赤岳 (八ヶ岳山系)	Mountain	4.3 km
Nobeyama Plateau野辺山高原	Mountain	4.9 km
Nobeyama radio observatory野辺山宇宙電波観測所	Landmark	5.6 km
Nobeyama Station野辺山駅	Landmark	5.9 km
Hakushu distillery白州蒸溜所	Landmark	16.8 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 ↗

Nearby resorts

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Places to stay nearby

5 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
八ヶ岳・清里高原　清泉寮　ホテル＆コテージ	¥7,500	4.38 555 reviews	—	中央自動車道長坂ICより２０分　／　JR小海線清里駅　※無料送迎便(ご予約制)あり
ペンション遊歩道	¥8,800	4.25 52 reviews	—	中央自動車道　須玉ＩＣ,長坂ＩＣ、小渕沢ＩＣより車で２０分　ＪＲ清里駅より車３分、徒歩２０分
清里高原リゾート（旧：清里高原ホテル）	¥12,190	4.22 1133 reviews	—	ＪＲ小海線「清里駅」よりお車で約５分／中央道「須玉ＩＣ」「長坂ＩＣ」より約３０分　※送迎バスはWEBにて完全予約制
八ヶ岳南麓　バーク清里	¥15,400	5.00 322 reviews	—	JR清里駅下車、徒歩２５分。お車は中央道長坂・須玉各インターから約25分
ＢＵＢ　ＲＥＳＯＲＴ　Ｙａｔｓｕｇａｔａｋｅ	¥37,400	4.80 30 reviews	—	JR小淵沢駅よりお車にて約30分 ※JR小淵沢駅への送迎があります。ご希望の場合は事前にご連絡ください。