Ski Resorts in Iwate
Iwate has 11 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 1343 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 Iwate
The 11 ski areas in Iwate get 332 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 4th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Appi Kogen at 377 cm, 87th in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 69% of January. That is a gentler fall than the national median of 57%. March brings 66 cm here, more than the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 10% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −4.9 °C, and 23 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is less rain than the national median of 16%, and it is colder than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Amihari Onsen Ski Resort, 31st of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 167 cm.
All ski areas in Iwate
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 | Appi Kogen | 377 cm | #33 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.6 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Shizukuishi Ski Resort | 358 cm | #55 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.2 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Amihari Onsen Ski Resort | 358 cm | #31 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 4 | Geto Kogen | 355 cm | #72 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 5 | Iwate Kogen Snow Park | 332 cm | #51 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.7 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 6 | Choei Yuda Ski Area | 332 cm | #232 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14 ℃ | |
| 7 | Hachimantai Resort Panorama Ski Are | 329 cm | #65 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 8 | Hachimantai Resort Shimokura Ski area | 329 cm | #46 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 12.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 9 | Tayama Ski Area (Hachimantai City) | 265 cm | #209 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.3 ℃ | |
| 10 | Okunakayamakogen Ski Area | 185 cm | #226 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 11 | Akabane Ski Resort | 109 cm | #351 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 13.3 ℃ | 🎥 |
Onsen towns in Iwate
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