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WhitePIA Takasu

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8 / 100 Powder Score

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WhitePIA Takasu is a ski area in Gifu, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1061–1353 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.9 km². 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 233 cm of snowfall a season, 858th (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. 60 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

16.2℃

Max wind

10.1km/h

Elevation (est.)

1061–1353m

Area

1.9km²

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 8/10

Base 0/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
🌧️ 27 Sept	13.7 / 18.3	9.1
🌧️ 28 Sept	13.8 / 17.4	10.1
🌧️ 29 Sept	12.1 / 14.8	5.4
☁️ 30 Sept	7.4 / 20.4	10
☁️ 1 Oct	6 / 18.8	12.8
☁️ 2 Oct	3.8 / 15.4	13.1
☀️ 3 Oct	3.2 / 15.2	13.2

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

8.8km

Lifts

Vertical

329m

Top 1,394 m · base 1,066 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.9 km

Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs13.2°

Which way the slopes face

North 44%

East 3%

South 1%

West 53%

Only 47% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 3

Intermediate 8

Advanced 5

Other 4

Lift types

Chairlift4

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.

Okumino webcams & snow report — all 14 ski areas →

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

233 cm

per season

Range over three winters

155 cm

159–314 cm. The best winter was 2.0x the worst.

World rank

858

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

242

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,165 m, 412 m above the national median.

Quality rank

207

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-4.4°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

22%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

14%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

16 km/h

Dryness 0.46

Frequency 0.41

Freedom from rain 0.44

Calm when snowing 0.98

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
Washigatake Ski Area	1.1 km	233 cm	858
Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area	2.7 km	233 cm	858
Shirao Ski Area	5.8 km	233 cm	858
Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort	6.4 km	233 cm	858
Meiho Ski Resort	8.1 km	193 cm	1139

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 38% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 27 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

61cm

Dec

72cm

Jan

45cm

Feb

27cm

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 15 °C).

Source	Distance	Temperature	pH	Type	Analysed
蛭ヶ野鉱泉	2.2 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

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
Bokka no Sato牧歌の里	Park	3.7 km
ひるがの高原	Nature	6.3 km
Mount Dainichi大日ヶ岳	Mountain	10.7 km
Amidaga Falls阿弥陀ケ滝	Nature	11 km
Shōkawa-zakura荘川桜	Nature	14.2 km
Itoshiro Cedar石徹白の大杉	Nature	18.5 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

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Places to stay nearby

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
郡上ヴァカンス村ホテル	¥2,160	3.94 280 reviews	—	長良川鉄道「美濃白鳥駅」より車で約30分／東海北陸自動車道「ひるがの高原SAスマートＩＣ」より６Ｋｍ（約７分）
モリソラの家	¥4,600	—	—	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
鷲ヶ岳高原ホテル・レインボー	¥8,000	4.20 279 reviews	—	東海北陸自動車道　高鷲ＩＣから５ｋｍ
貸別荘　鷲ヶ岳　ポン太ハウス	—	—	—	東海北陸自動車道　高鷲ＩＣより車で５分
ゲストハウス西洞館	—	—	—	高鷲ICから車で１０分。バスツアーの方も徒歩で来れます！鷲ヶ岳スキー場にくるならここ！！！
鷲ヶ岳高原ホテル本館・新館	—	3.90 23 reviews	—	東海北陸自動車道　高鷲ＩＣより約4km
ペットと泊まれるログハウス貸し別荘　ゆがふ“あけの”	—	—	—	美濃白鳥駅よりお車にて約２０分