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YAMABOKU Wild Snow Park

ヤマボクワイルドスノーパーク

10 / 100 Powder Score

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YAMABOKU Wild Snow Park is a ski area in Nagano, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 1421–1815 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 2.3 km². Within 1.5 km of the centre, the map shows 20 marked runs and 3 lifts, totalling about 12 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 253 cm of snowfall a season, 722nd (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. 141 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

13.7℃

Max wind

8.4km/h

Elevation (est.)

1421–1815m

Area

2.3km²

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	9.9 / 16	6.4
🌧️ 28 Sept	11.1 / 14.9	10.9
🌧️ 29 Sept	9 / 12	10.3
☁️ 30 Sept	5.3 / 17.3	4.7
☁️ 1 Oct	6.8 / 16.9	6.6
☁️ 2 Oct	1.6 / 9.7	13
☁️ 3 Oct	1.1 / 10.7	5.7

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

8.5km

Lifts

Vertical

267m

Top 1,764 m · base 1,497 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map3.1 km

Steepest pitch33°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs9.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 7%

East 9%

South 23%

West 60%

Only 16% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 3

Intermediate 4

Advanced 4

Lift types

Chairlift3

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18号 ↗From the resort: 16.9 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局長野国道事務所

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.

Kusatsu and Manza webcams & snow report — all 5 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

253 cm

per season

Range over three winters

98 cm

197–295 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.

World rank

722

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

219

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,658 m, 905 m above the national median.

Quality rank

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-7.5°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

10%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

14%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

18 km/h

Dryness 0.68

Frequency 0.41

Freedom from rain 0.74

Calm when snowing 0.96

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
Shiga Kogen Kumanoyu Ski Area	3.0 km	341 cm	322
Shiga Kogen Yokoteyama Ski Area	4.3 km	341 cm	322
Manza Onsen	4.9 km	253 cm	722
Shiga Kogen Shibutoge Ski Area	5.8 km	341 cm	322
Shiga Kogen	5.8 km	253 cm	722

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 73% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (51%). In amount, March brings 55 cm, more than the median of 45 cm.

61cm

Dec

75cm

Jan

56cm

Feb

55cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

Hot springs nearby, as analysed

7 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 96.2 °C).

Source	Distance	Temperature	pH	Type	Analysed
奥山田奥山田	0.8 km	67.5℃ hot	7.3 neutral	—	—
七味高山村	1.6 km	96.2℃ hot	8.3 mildly alkaline	—	—
五色福田2号泉	1.6 km	74℃ hot	8.2 mildly alkaline	—	—
熊の湯	3.1 km	46.2℃ hot	6.4 neutral	—	—
硯川	3.4 km	68℃ hot	—	sulphur	—

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
Shiga Highlands志賀高原	Nature	5.3 km
Manza Onsen万座温泉	Hot spring town	5.7 km
Mount Kusatsu-Shirane草津白根山	Nature	6.5 km
Jigokudani Monkey Park地獄谷野猿公苑	Park	6.7 km
Kusatsu Onsen草津温泉	Hot spring town	13 km
Mount Azumaya四阿山	Mountain	15.3 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

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

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
志賀高原　ホテル一望閣	¥6,800	3.68 283 reviews	—	上信越道信州中野ＩＣより国道２９２号線にて４５分。ＪＲ長野駅より急行バス８０分又は長電特急電車５０分＆バス利用４５分。
志賀高原　癒しの宿幸の湯	¥6,940	4.50 16 reviews	—	JR長野駅より志賀高原行き直通バスで約70分。上信越自動車道・信州中野ICより約40分
ほたる温泉　ホテルハイツ	¥7,425	3.91 46 reviews	—	上信越自動車道信州中野ＩＣより約28Ｋｍ約40分。ＪＲ長野駅より志賀高原行バスで７０分
Ｈｏｔｅｌ　＆　Ｏｎｓｅｎ　２３０７　Ｓｈｉｇａｋｏｇｅｎ	¥7,600	3.75 153 reviews	—	中野ICより車で４５分。湯田中駅よりバスにて４５分。硯川バス停下車１分徒歩。
志賀パレスホテル	¥8,250	3.48 281 reviews	—	長野電鉄湯田中駅　／　湯田中より長電バスにて５０分
志賀高原ロッヂ	¥8,600	4.33 58 reviews	—	湯田中駅からバスで45分ほたる温泉下車徒歩5分。信州中野ICから車で約40分。
石の湯温泉　石の湯ロッジ	¥8,860	4.00 105 reviews	—	車：長野道信州中野ICより40分　電車：長野電鉄湯田中駅　※ナビは電話番号検索かGoogleMAPをご利用ください
木戸池温泉ホテル	¥8,900	3.33 154 reviews	—	ＪＲ　長野駅より長野電鉄線に乗換え湯田中駅下車、硯川・熊の湯行のバス乗車にて３０分、木戸池バス停下車０分
Ｓｐａ　Ｌｏｄｇｅ　Ｒｅｄｗｏｏｄ　Ｉｎｎ（レッドウッドイン）	¥9,900	4.56 94 reviews	—	上信越自動車道須坂長野東IC、または小布施スマートICより50分
志賀高原熊の湯・硯川温泉　にごり湯の宿硯川ホテル	¥10,000	3.83 491 reviews	—	長野電鉄線　湯田中駅下車　バス４０分／上信越自動車道信州中野ＩＣ　国道２９２号経由３０分
五色温泉　五色の湯旅館	¥11,000	4.08 56 reviews	—	須坂駅より山田温泉行きバスにて４０分　山田温泉より送迎有り
志賀リバーサイドホテル	¥11,000	3.17 40 reviews	—	湯田中駅から志賀高原行きバスで６０分

Show the other 4

Property	From	Rating	Distance	Getting there
ポイントホープやまゆう	¥13,000	—	—	長野電鉄湯田中駅バス約５０分
熊の湯温泉　熊の湯ホテル	¥13,600	4.15 252 reviews	—	私鉄長野電鉄湯田中駅下車　長電バス熊の湯硯川行　熊の湯下車０分／上信越自動車道信州中野ＩＣ下車Ｒ２９２号線経由約３０ｋｍ
ニュー笠岳	¥17,000	3.00 11 reviews	—	須坂・長野東Ｉ．Ｃから４０分。
奥山田温泉　煌月	¥26,000	4.17 11 reviews	—	須坂長野東ICより、お車で約２５Km　４０分