🇯🇵 Japan · Shiga

Yogo Kogen Resort

余呉高原スキー場

8 / 100 Powder Score

No Snow 🌤️ Official site

Yogo Kogen Resort is a ski area in Shiga, Japan. The terrain spans roughly 515–703 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.2 km². Within 1.5 km of the centre, the map shows 7 marked runs and 7 lifts, totalling about 4.1 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 269 cm of snowfall a season, 624th (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. 28 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

19.2℃

Max wind

11.8km/h

Elevation (est.)

515–703m

Area

1.2km²

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	16.8 / 20.9	11.8
🌧️ 28 Sept	16.5 / 20.3	11.1
🌧️ 29 Sept	13.8 / 16.5	5.6
☁️ 30 Sept	11 / 19.6	10.3
🌦️ 1 Oct	10.8 / 19.5	13.6
🌦️ 2 Oct	8.2 / 16.3	20.2
🌤️ 3 Oct	7.8 / 16.4	12

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

3.8km

Lifts

Vertical

185m

Top 737 m · base 552 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift

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

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.2 km

Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs10.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 22%

East 67%

South 8%

West 2%

89% 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 3

Intermediate 2

Lift types

Chairlift4
Magic carpet1

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8号 ↗From the resort: 6.6 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局福井河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道8号 ↗From the resort: 12.4 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局福井河川国道事務所

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

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Okuibuki and Yogo webcams & snow report — all 5 ski areas →

See the snow in motion

余呉高原リゾートYAP powder run

By: yap yogo · 2018-02-23

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Official YouTube channel

More than we show here.

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

269 cm

per season

Range over three winters

145 cm

208–353 cm. The best winter was 1.7x the worst.

World rank

624

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

195

of 395 in Japan

Elevation rank

225

Highest to lowest, of 395 in Japan. The centre point sits at 645 m, 108 m below the national median.

Quality rank

307

of 395 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-1.3°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

43%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

18%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

21 km/h

Dryness 0.24

Frequency 0.50

Freedom from rain 0.35

Calm when snowing 0.93

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
Imajo 365	3.0 km	269 cm	624
Akoyama Skijo Snowpal	18 km	162 cm	1429
Ohana Resort	19 km	151 cm	1565
Gransnow Okuibuki	29 km	257 cm	692
Hakodateyama Ski Resort	33 km	122 cm	1902

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 24% 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 22 cm, less than the median of 45 cm.

70cm

Dec

92cm

Jan

68cm

Feb

22cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 11 winters

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
栃ノ木峠	Nature	0.5 km
Kinome Pass木ノ芽峠	Nature	2.5 km
Kanegasaki Castle金ヶ崎城	Historic site	8 km
Kanegasaki-gū金崎宮	Shrine	8.1 km
Kehi Jingū氣比神宮	Shrine	8.5 km
Lake Yogo余呉湖	Nature	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.