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Tayama Ski Area (Hachimantai City)

八幡平市田山スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Tayama Ski Area (Hachimantai City) is a ski area in Iwate, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 304–573 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.2 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 3 marked runs and 2 lifts, totalling about 1.4 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 302 cm of snowfall a season, 477th (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 Morioka, about 48 km away. 34 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

16.9℃

Max wind

4.8km/h

Elevation (est.)

304–573m

Area

1.2km²

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	12.4 / 20.9	5.2
🌦️ 28 Sept	13.4 / 24.1	12.6
🌤️ 29 Sept	12.2 / 18.7	12.3
🌤️ 30 Sept	9.9 / 19.5	11.7
🌧️ 1 Oct	8.5 / 19.8	20
🌧️ 2 Oct	9.1 / 12.4	27.6
🌦️ 3 Oct	7.5 / 13.5	20.8

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

1.4km

Lifts

Vertical

239m

Top 558 m · base 319 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.6 km

Steepest pitch32°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs15.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 61%

East 39%

South 0%

West 0%

100% 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

Easy 1

Intermediate 1

Advanced 1

Lift types

Chairlift2

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.

Appi and Hachimantai webcams & snow report — all 11 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.

Seasonal snowfall

302 cm

per season

Range over three winters

72 cm

272–344 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.

World rank

477

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

170

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

288

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 399 m, 354 m below the national median.

Quality rank

208

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-2.6°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

17%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

17%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

24 km/h

Dryness 0.33

Frequency 0.47

Freedom from rain 0.57

Calm when snowing 0.90

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
Hanawa Ski Area	12 km	290 cm	532
Appi Kogen	17 km	413 cm	157
Okunakayamakogen Ski Area	20 km	208 cm	1009
Akita Hachimantai Ski Area	21 km	466 cm	96
Hachimantai Resort Shimokura Ski area	26 km	357 cm	268

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 53% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 45 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.

81cm

Dec

85cm

Jan

62cm

Feb

45cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

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 32 °C).

Source	Distance	Temperature	pH	Type	Analysed
田山米代	0.7 km	32℃ lukewarm	8.8 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
Yuze Onsen湯瀬温泉	Hot spring town	9.7 km
Fudō Falls不動の滝 (八幡平市)	Nature	12 km
Hachimantai Onsenkyō八幡平温泉郷	Hot spring town	17.9 km
安比温泉	Hot spring town	18 km
Historic Sites Osarizawa Mine史跡尾去沢鉱山	Mountain	18.3 km
Ōyu Stone Circles大湯環状列石	Historic site	19.9 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.