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By: 鷲ヶ岳スキー場【公式】 · 13 Nov
Japan · Gifu
Washigatake Ski Area
鷲ヶ岳スキー場
Off season Opens 21 Nov (resort’s announcement)
Official site Lift tickets (official) 2026/27 adult day ticket ¥5,500 1-day (adult) (checked 19 Oct)
No snow yet. The 2026/27 season is planned to open on 21 Nov (the resort’s announcement; it moves with the snow). Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.
Opens
21 Nov
Typical snowfall
220cm
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
- Elevation
- 902–1,347 m
- Across
- 2.3 km
Hotel Rainbow connects directly to the slopes, and the lifts run from early morning into the night. On Saturdays in February the first quad chair keeps turning all night. The expert Parallel course tends to be quiet enough for practice, and a shared ticket links the area with neighbouring WhitePIA Takasu. Sources: ski.washigatake.jp, whitepia.jp (sources read 13 Oct 2026; an AI draft the site operator has not yet checked)
How much snow it gets
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
220cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
136cm
The middle winter of the 12: 204 cm. The best: 399 cm.
World rank
953
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
235
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
95
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,121 m, 355 m above the national median.
Quality rank
226
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
−4.0°C
Japanese median: −3.6°C
Rain days
22%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
14%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
16km/h
Average daily peak, 10 m above ground across a model grid cell; not the wind on ridges or lift tops
Dryness 43
Frequency 41
Freedom from rain 44
Calm when snowing (model grid) 98
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score leaves out how much snow falls (it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind).
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| WhitePIA Takasu | 1.1 km | 220 cmsame grid cell | 953 |
| Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area | 3.6 km | 220 cmsame grid cell | 953 |
| Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort | 7.1 km | 220 cmsame grid cell | 953 |
| Dynaland | 8.2 km | 322 cm | 393 |
| Takasu Snow Park | 8.4 km | 322 cm | 393 |
Compare side by side with WhitePIA Takasu and Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area →
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
14
Run length
9.7km
Lifts
5
Vertical
445m
Top 1,347 m · base 902 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.5 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.5°
Which way the slopes face
North 6%
East 0%
South 10%
West 84%
Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is west (84%).
By difficulty
Easy 3 · 2.1 km
Intermediate 5 · 3.7 km
Advanced 3 · 2 km
Other 3 · 1.9 km
Lift types
- Chairlift5
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in January. March brings 41% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 31 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
67cmDec
75cmJan
46cmFeb
31cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 220 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 136 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 399 cm (2.9 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
399
169
211
262
155
136
193
214
196
226
314
159
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live cameras
On the mountain鷲ヶ岳スキー場 ↗The live stream is paused (checked 9 Nov). Check the official page for when it returns.Roads nearby国道156号 ↗From the resort: 10.7 kmOperated by: 中部地方整備局 岐阜国道事務所
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Okumino webcams & snow report — all 14 ski areas →
Videos
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
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 15 °C).
Show the sources
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 蛭ヶ野鉱泉 | 1.2 km | 15℃ cold | 5.8 mildly acidic | 1955 |
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
Within 20 km in a straight line, nearest first. Some lie over a pass that is closed in winter.
Show the list
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bokka no Sato牧歌の里 | Park | 4.4 km |
| ひるがの高原 | Nature | 6.7 km |
| Amidaga Falls阿弥陀ケ滝 | Nature | 10.4 km |
| Mount Dainichi大日ヶ岳 | Mountain | 10.6 km |
| Shōkawa-zakura荘川桜 | Nature | 15.1 km |
| Itoshiro Cedar石徹白の大杉 | Nature | 18.3 km |
Chosen from the places most read about on Wikipedia, favouring those with an English article. 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.
Coordinates: 35.9438, 136.9315
Getting there
- By car
- 3 km from Takasu IC (Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway)
- Winter roads
- the road to the resort can be snowy or icy, so winter tyres or chains are required (the resort notes that driving on snow with normal tyres breaks the Road Traffic Act)
Source: ski.washigatake.jp, kankou-gifu.jp · checked 7 Nov 2026. Shuttle days and times change with the season; check the official site before you go.
Going with children
- Kids’ area
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
- Childcare
- Not checked
- Parking
- Yes (details in Japanese on the official site)
- Rental
- Not checked
Checked on the official site (13 Oct 2026) · Source. “Not checked” means we have not looked yet. Compare with other ski areas →
Places to stay nearbyPR
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8 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within about 3 km of this ski area. The table shows the nearest 8 with a listed price.
| Property (links to Rakuten Travel) | Lowest listed (per person, tax incl.) | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鷲ヶ岳高原ホテル・レインボー | ¥8,000 | 4.20／5 279 reviews | 1.1 km | 東海北陸自動車道 高鷲ICから5km |
| モリソラの家 | ¥4,600 | — | 2.6 km | 名神一宮JCから60分 / 高鷲ICから5分 / 北濃駅よりお車にて約20分 |
| せいせん・りょう(青仙寮 seisen-ryo) ^ | ¥9,570 | — | 3.0 km | 白鳥高原駅から車で約23分 |
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