🇯🇵 Japan · Nagano

Yabuhara Kogen

やぶはら高原スキー場

10 / 100 Powder Score

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Yabuhara Kogen is a ski area in Nagano, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1141–1671 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.6 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 16 marked runs and 6 lifts, totalling about 9.1 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 166 cm of snowfall a season, 1385th (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. 1 official live camera is linked below. 106 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

14.8℃

Max wind

8km/h

Elevation (est.)

1141–1671m

Area

2.6km²

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 / 17.3	6.5
🌧️ 28 Sept	11.5 / 16	9.1
🌧️ 29 Sept	10 / 13.3	3.7
☁️ 30 Sept	5.6 / 20.6	12.6
🌤️ 1 Oct	6.4 / 19.2	14.3
🌤️ 2 Oct	2.6 / 14.4	13.2
☁️ 3 Oct	1.4 / 14.2	14.8

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

9.6km

Lifts

Vertical

552m

Top 1,676 m · base 1,124 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.1 km

Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs12.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 81%

East 15%

South 0%

West 4%

96% 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

Novice 1

Easy 4

Intermediate 5

Advanced 6

Other 1

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. The nearest live view is the road below.

Roads nearby国道19号 ↗From the resort: 5.5 kmOperated by: 中部地方整備局飯田国道事務所

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

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Norikura and Hida webcams & snow report — all 9 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

166 cm

per season

Range over three winters

106 cm

109–215 cm. The best winter was 2.0x the worst.

World rank

1385

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

308

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,469 m, 716 m above the national median.

Quality rank

278

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-3.9°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

17%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

17 km/h

Dryness 0.42

Frequency 0.23

Freedom from rain 0.56

Calm when snowing 0.97

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
Kisofukushima Ski Resort	5.1 km	209 cm	996
Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort	10.0 km	303 cm	470
Mia Ski Resort	20 km	225 cm	901
Asahi Prime Ski Area	20 km	119 cm	1949
Blue Resort Norikura	21 km	303 cm	470

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 94% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 44 cm, about the same as the median of 45 cm.

34cm

Dec

47cm

Jan

45cm

Feb

44cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 開田高原 weather station — 11.9 km from this ski area, 276 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average	235 cm
2023/24	299 cm
2024/25	259 cm
2025/26	147 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 166 cm.

A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.

Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records

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
Yabuhara-juku藪原宿	Old streets	5.2 km
Narai-juku奈良井宿	Old streets	7.2 km
Fukushima-juku福島宿 (中山道)	Old streets	12.4 km
Niekawa-juku贄川宿	Old streets	12.8 km
Nomugi Pass野麦峠	Mountain	15.5 km
Mount Kisokoma木曽駒ヶ岳	Mountain	19.8 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

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

Places to stay nearby

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
高原荘＜長野県木曽郡＞	—	—	—	ＪＲ　薮原駅よりバスで２０分／国道１９号より車で１５分
やぶはら高原　山の家	—	—	—	ＪＲ中央西線「薮原駅」よりバスにて２０分。Ｒ１９号よりお車にて１０分。