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Tazawako Ski Resort

たざわ湖スキー場
10 / 100 Powder Score
No Snow ☁️ Official site Lift tickets (official)

Tazawako Ski Resort is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 590–1120 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.3 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 18 marked runs and 6 lifts, totalling about 13 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 325 cm of snowfall a season, 379th (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 31 km away. 3 official live cameras are linked below. 36 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
15.7℃
Max wind
7.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
590–1120m
Area
2.3km²

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 Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 27 Sept 0 12.5 / 18.3 8.4
🌧️ 28 Sept 0 13.2 / 19.1 10.6
🌤️ 29 Sept 0 9.5 / 15.5 10.7
☀️ 30 Sept 0 8.8 / 17.1 8.2
🌧️ 1 Oct 0 8.6 / 15.7 17.6
🌧️ 2 Oct 0 7.3 / 11 27.6
🌦️ 3 Oct 0 6 / 11 18

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
16
Run length
11km
Lifts
6
Vertical
596m
Top 1,173 m · base 577 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.4 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 7%
East 1%
South 5%
West 87%

Only 8% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 8
Intermediate 4
Advanced 4

Lift types

  • Chairlift6

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. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

See the snow in motion

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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.

Seasonal snowfall
325 cm
per season
Range over three winters
39 cm
309–348 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
379
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
146
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
191
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 784 m, 31 m above the national median.
Quality rank
97
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-4.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
15%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
20%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
22 km/h
Dryness 0.48
Frequency 0.56
Freedom from rain 0.61
Calm when snowing 0.92

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Shizukuishi Ski Resort13 km386 cm196
Amihari Onsen Ski Resort16 km386 cm196
Iwate Kogen Snow Park18 km357 cm268
Hachimantai Resort Shimokura Ski area21 km357 cm268
Hachimantai Resort Panorama Ski Are22 km357 cm268

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 58% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 58 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

87cm
Dec
100cm
Jan
73cm
Feb
58cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

8 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 90 °C).

SourceDistanceTemperaturepHTypeAnalysed
水沢1.6 km44.8℃ hot6.4 neutral——
田沢湖高原1・2・4号混合泉1.8 km49.7℃ hot5.1 mildly acidicsulphur—
赤倉沢3.3 km29℃ lukewarm6.4 neutral——
国見薬師の湯4.3 km54.6℃ hot7 neutralsulphur—
田沢日東オプチカル4.3 km43.8℃ hot7.5 mildly alkaline——
空吹空噴の湯5 km90℃ hot5.7 mildly acidicsulphur—

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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Tazawako-Kōgen Onsenkyō田沢湖高原温泉郷Hot spring town2.2 km
Akita-Komagatake秋田駒ヶ岳Mountain2.8 km
Nyuto Spa Resort乳頭温泉郷Hot spring town4.3 km
国見温泉Hot spring town4.3 km
Lake Tazawa田沢湖Nature10.3 km
Matsukawa Geothermal Power Plant松川地熱発電所Landmark17.6 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

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

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
宿 小町や ^¥4,5243.40 10 reviews—田沢湖駅から車で約19分
亀の井ホテル 田沢湖¥5,3764.06 1607 reviews—JR田沢湖駅より乳頭温泉行バス約35分「杉谷地」下車 駒ケ岳登山口行きバス停まで徒歩約10分 乳頭温泉まで車で約10分
ホテルグランド天空¥7,2004.45 404 reviews—JR 田沢湖駅からバスで約36分 乳頭行バスでアルパこまくさ停留所か次の上高原バス停
田沢湖高原温泉 ロッジアイリス¥7,5004.42 65 reviews—田沢湖駅よりお車にて30分
田沢湖高原温泉 田沢高原ホテル¥8,8004.56 307 reviews—田沢湖駅前バスターミナルより高原温泉バス停下車、隣りになります。
田沢湖高原温泉 どんぐり山荘¥10,0004.50 49 reviews—JR田沢湖駅
心に和みが灯る宿 水沢温泉郷 青荷山荘¥10,0004.26 291 reviews—車以外/JR秋田新幹線田沢湖駅より乳頭温泉行バスで水沢温泉郷下車。車/東北自動車道盛岡IC~国道46号線を秋田方面へ。
ロッヂヨーデル¥11,0003.80 20 reviews—田沢湖駅からお車で15分
田沢湖水沢温泉郷セルリアンリゾートAONI¥11,5004.22 330 reviews—田沢湖駅よりバスで約25分(乳頭線、水沢温泉郷で降車)、タクシーで約15分
ペンション 白い星———JR 田沢湖駅よりバスにて田沢湖スキー場前下車後、徒歩2分
駒ヶ岳温泉———JR 田沢湖駅よりバス乳頭線休養センター前下車 徒歩15分。
田沢湖高原水沢温泉 プラザホテル山麓荘別館 四季彩———JR田沢湖駅より車で10分。県道乳頭線エネオスGSから4分。/東北自動車、盛岡ICより国道46号線経由約1時間
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PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
民宿はるかぜ———田沢湖駅より車で20分 JR田沢湖駅バス(乳頭線32分。高原温泉から徒歩3分。お車では盛岡インターより約1時間。
田沢湖高原温泉郷 駒ケ岳グランドホテル———JR田沢湖駅から乳頭温泉行にて約30分上高原下車1分、盛岡ICから車で60分
田沢プラトーホテル———田沢湖駅よりバスで35~40分又はお車で20分
ログハウスの宿 ”仙人”———JR田沢湖駅より乳頭温泉行きバス約30分「小先達ダム公園」下車すぐ / 東北道 盛岡ICから46号線経由約60Km

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Stay nearby

38 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

30 Hotel 7 Guest house 1 Hostel

Nearest: 1.1 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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