アラウンド西吾妻(白布温泉×天元台高原） 冬のプロモーション
By: 【公式】天元台高原 · 2026-04-29
Tengendai Kogen is a ski area in Yamagata, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1114–1860 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.9 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 10 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 7.3 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 423 cm of snowfall a season, 140th (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 Fukushima, about 29 km away. 1 official live camera is linked below. 61 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
13.8℃
Max wind
8.9km/h
Elevation (est.)
1114–1860m
Area
2.9km²
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 | 10.1 / 15.9 | 8.9 |
| 🌦️ 28 Sept | 0 | 12 / 16.2 | 10.5 |
| 🌦️ 29 Sept | 0 | 6.4 / 12.6 | 9.5 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 6 / 16.3 | 4.7 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 7.2 / 14.4 | 20.5 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 2 / 7.4 | 22.5 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 1.7 / 8 | 11.5 |
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
10
Run length
7.3km
Lifts
4
Vertical
887m
Top 1,815 m · base 927 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.5 km
Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11°
Which way the slopes face
North 74%
East 2%
South 8%
West 16%
76% 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 2
Intermediate 4
Advanced 4
Lift types
- Chairlift3
- Cable car1
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Yonezawa and Tengendai webcams & snow report — all 4 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
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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
423 cm
per season
Range over three winters
167 cm
351–518 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.
World rank
140
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
83
of 395 in Japan
Elevation rank
32
Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,548 m, 795 m above the national median.
Quality rank
9
of 395 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-7.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
12%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
27%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
22 km/h
Dryness 0.70
Frequency 0.76
Freedom from rain 0.69
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandeco Snow Resort | 6.5 km | 423 cm | 140 |
| Kuriko International Ski & Resort | 13 km | 400 cm | 169 |
| Yonezawa Snow World | 14 km | 296 cm | 511 |
| Onogawa Onsen | 14 km | 345 cm | 308 |
| Yokomuki Onsen Ski Area | 16 km | 311 cm | 430 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 55% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 71 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.
110cmDec
129cmJan
82cmFeb
71cmMar
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 59.4 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 新高湯阿部 | 0.7 km | 50.5℃ hot | 7.1 neutral | — | — |
| 大平滝見屋 | 1.8 km | 52℃ hot | 7 neutral | — | — |
| 白布白布源泉 | 2.2 km | 59.4℃ hot | 6.8 neutral | — | — |
| 赤滝赤滝Ⅱ源泉 | 2.6 km | 33.4℃ lukewarm | 5.8 mildly acidic | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Azuma-kofuji吾妻小富士 | Mountain | 10.7 km |
| Lake Hibara桧原湖 | Nature | 12.6 km |
| Yonezawa Castle米沢城 | Historic site | 16.2 km |
| Yonezawa Uesugi clan cemetery上杉家廟所 | Historic site | 17 km |
| Mount Bandai磐梯山 | Mountain | 19.3 km |
| Mount Adatara安達太良山 | Mountain | 19.6 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 ↗ Coordinates: 37.7665, 140.1380
Places to stay nearby
11 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 天元台山荘 | ¥7,000 | 4.80 5 reviews | — | 米沢駅から湯元駅までバスで約50分。ロープウェイで天元台高原駅までお上がりください。駅から徒歩約7分 |
| 白布温泉 東屋（ひがしや） | ¥7,150 | 4.62 133 reviews | — | ＪＲ米沢駅より「白布天元台行」路線バスにて約50分 送迎バス：ＪＲ米沢駅発 14:30 旅館発 10:00 要予約 |
| 白布温泉 中屋別館 不動閣 | ¥8,470 | 4.36 313 reviews | — | JR米沢駅から路線バス（山交バス白布温泉行き）約50分。東北中央自動車道～米沢八幡原IC～国道13号～県道2号線約30分 |
| アルブ天元台 | ¥9,000 | 3.90 22 reviews | — | 東北中央自動車道米沢八幡原ICよりR13で米沢方面21㎞30分。天元台ロープウェイ乗車6分 |
| 歩いてたどりつく温泉 大平温泉 滝見屋 | ¥14,980 | 5.00 23 reviews | — | 米沢駅よりお車にて約50分。駐車場から約20分のトレッキング |
| ペンション パル＜山形県＞ | — | — | — | 奥羽本線 米沢駅よりバスで５０分、ロープウェイで５分 但しロープウェイ最終運行時間17:00 |
| 新高湯温泉 五つの絶景露天風呂 吾妻屋旅館 | — | — | — | ＪＲ 米沢駅より山形交通バスで４０分、天元台湯元駅下車後送迎車にて4分（白布温泉から送迎車6分） |
| ペンション かもしか | — | — | — | JR米沢駅からバスで40分白布・天元台行終点ロープウェイ湯元駅／さらにロープウェイ乗車5分天元台駅から歩いて4分 |
| 白布温泉 湯滝の宿 西屋 | — | 4.72 236 reviews | — | ＪＲ 米沢駅より白布天元台行バスにて約４５分 |
| 別邸 山の季 | — | — | — | 東北自動車道→福島JCT→東北中央自動車道（新）→米沢中央ＩＣ→R121号→R2号→白布温泉方面へ約20分。 |
| 民宿 白布屋 | — | — | — | 米沢駅より４０〜４５分 |
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Stay nearby
8 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
8 Hotel
Nearest: 0.7 km
Nearest first
- Shintakayu Onsen Hotel 0.7 km
- Alb Tengendai Hotel 1 km
- 大平温泉 滝見屋 Hotel 1.8 km
- 白布温泉 西屋 Hotel 2.2 km
- 白布温泉 東屋 Hotel 2.2 km
- 別邸 山の季 Hotel 2.4 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28