Yawata Highland 191 Resort is a ski area in Hiroshima, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 770–941 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.0 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 15 marked runs and 4 lifts, totalling about 4.3 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 139 cm of snowfall a season, 1712th (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. 2 official live cameras are linked below. 12 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 | 16.2 / 19.8 | 5.9 |
| 🌧️ 28 Sept | 0 | 14.1 / 19.1 | 9.7 |
| 🌧️ 29 Sept | 0 | 14.1 / 19.2 | 9.1 |
| 🌤️ 30 Sept | 0 | 12.9 / 19.9 | 9.1 |
| 🌦️ 1 Oct | 0 | 10.2 / 18.5 | 17 |
| ☁️ 2 Oct | 0 | 7.4 / 15.7 | 20.4 |
| ☁️ 3 Oct | 0 | 7.2 / 16.4 | 6.1 |
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
99% 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
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.
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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Geihoku (Hiroshima) 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geihoku Kokusai | 6.6 km | 139 cm | 1712 |
| Osa Ski Resort | 7.8 km | 139 cm | 1712 |
| Osorakan Snow Park | 11 km | 133 cm | 1772 |
| Utopia Saioto | 18 km | 137 cm | 1730 |
| Megahiraonsen Megahira Ski Area | 22 km | 80 cm | 2458 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 37% 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 17 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 八幡 weather station — 2.2 km from this ski area, 81 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 442 cm |
| 2023/24 | 367 cm |
| 2024/25 | 691 cm |
| 2025/26 | 267 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 139 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sandan Falls三段滝 | Nature | 7.6 km |
| Mount Osorakan恐羅漢山 | Mountain | 11.2 km |
| Sandan-kyō三段峡 | Nature | 11.5 km |
| Nukui Dam温井ダム | Nature | 14.8 km |
| Ini no Tanada井仁の棚田 | Nature | 18.9 km |
| Nishi-Chugoku Sanchi Quasi-National Park西中国山地国定公園 | Nature | 19.6 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
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 あるぺん屋 | ¥12,100 | 5.00 39 reviews | — | 広島市内より車で90分 |
| オネスティーコテージ正直村Ｂ＆Ｂ | — | — | — | 車で広島ICより約１時間戸河内ICで降りる、国道１９１号線益田方面へ約３０分正直村看板から約３キロ |
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Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28