Ski Resorts in Akita
Akita has 17 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 9 of them with an official live camera. None of them are holding snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. The highest terrain on file reaches about 1221 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Where It’s Snowing
Resorts with 3cm+ of snow in the last 48 hours. A ❄ marks anything over 15cm.
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Snow in Akita
The 17 ski areas in Akita get 280 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 9th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, close to the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Yashima Ski Area at 467 cm, 47th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 41% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 38 cm here, less than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 27% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.5 °C, and 23 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is more rain than the national median of 16%, and it is warmer than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Akita Hachimantai Ski Area, 13th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 182 cm.
All ski areas in Akita
The season has not started, so these are in order of typical snowfall.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Powder Score | Base depth | Snow 48h | Temperature | Live Cameras | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yashima Ski Area | 467 cm | #170 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Akita Hachimantai Ski Area | 437 cm | #13 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 9.2 ℃ | |
| 3 | Jeunesse Kurikoma Ski Area | 407 cm | #178 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.4 ℃ | |
| 4 | Tengamori Ski Area | 377 cm | #243 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.5 ℃ | |
| 5 | Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) | 370 cm | #39 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11 ℃ | |
| 6 | Matsumori Ski Area | 351 cm | #180 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14 ℃ | |
| 7 | Gionyama Ski Area | 321 cm | #289 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 8 | Tazawako Ski Resort | 318 cm | #98 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 9 | Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area | 280 cm | #275 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.3 ℃ | |
| 10 | Hanawa Ski Area | 263 cm | #187 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.8 ℃ | |
| 11 | Kyowa Snow Park | 236 cm | #332 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 12 | Gosannen Ski Area | 230 cm | #317 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.8 ℃ | |
| 13 | Inakawa Ski Area Suberotta | 229 cm | #333 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 14 | Taiheizan Ski Area Opus | 216 cm | #336 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 15.7 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 15 | Omagari Family Ski Area | 202 cm | #335 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 16 | Fujisato Choei Ski Area | 200 cm | #343 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 17 | Yakushiyama Ski Area | 160 cm | #371 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
Onsen towns in Akita
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
Deep snow close to a city
Ski areas averaging 300 cm or more, by straight-line distance from the nearest large city.
Snowfall is the 12-winter average from the ERA5 reanalysis, and the model runs low on mountain snow, by different amounts in different regions (the regional map on the Japan page adds that difference back; the figures on this page do not). Read the ranks and the comparisons rather than the centimetres. The month-by-month pattern uses the last 12 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure