Yakushiyama Ski Area is a ski area in Akita, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 15–132 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.7 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 192 cm of snowfall a season, 1148th (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. 32 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌤️ 27 Sept | 0 | 12.5 / 23.2 | 5.4 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 15.3 / 24.8 | 13.8 |
| 🌤️ 29 Sept | 0 | 12.9 / 20.8 | 12 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 10.3 / 21.8 | 6.7 |
| ⛈️ 1 Oct | 0 | 11.3 / 19 | 19 |
| 🌦️ 2 Oct | 0 | 10.9 / 16.2 | 28.4 |
| 🌦️ 3 Oct | 0 | 8.4 / 16.4 | 15.1 |
Runs and lifts
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Rope tow2
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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.
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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fujisato Choei Ski Area | 12 km | 227 cm | 891 |
| Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area | 24 km | 339 cm | 336 |
| Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) | 34 km | 423 cm | 140 |
| Matsumori Ski Area | 38 km | 386 cm | 196 |
| Owani Onsen Ski Resort International Area | 41 km | 267 cm | 635 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 34% 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 18 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 鷹巣 weather station — 8.2 km from this ski area, 44 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 353 cm |
| 2023/24 | 179 cm |
| 2024/25 | 452 cm |
| 2025/26 | 428 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 192 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
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 14 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 湯の沢 | 1.5 km | 14℃ cold | 8.6 alkaline | — | — |
| 長重 | 2.3 km | 9.6℃ cold | 6.4 neutral | simple | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kimimachizaka Prefectural Natural Parkきみまち阪 | Nature | 2 km |
| Isedōtai Site伊勢堂岱遺跡 | Historic site | 6.2 km |
| Akita Prefectural Hokuou-no-mori Park秋田県立北欧の杜公園 | Park | 9.3 km |
| Garōkyō峨瓏峡 | Nature | 12 km |
| Subari Dam素波里ダム | Landmark | 14.2 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
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| きみまち阪 壱ノ座 | — | — | — | 二ッ井駅よりお車にて５分 |
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Stay nearby
6 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 4.9 km
Nearest first
- 白神山地の麓でヤギのいるゲストハウス あわじ商店 Apartment 4.9 km
- 丸留旅館 Hotel 7.7 km
- Hotel New Matsuo Hotel 7.8 km
- ニューグランドホテル 松鶴 Hotel 8 km
- Hotel Yagi Hotel 8.2 km
- Sugawarakan Hotel 8.3 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28