Ski Resorts in Nagano

Nagano has 63 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 58 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 2307 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.

63ski areas 58live cams

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 Nagano

Typical snowfall 317 cm #6 of 31 prefectures

Worst of 12 winters 197 cm prefecture median

Rain days 12% Japan 16%

Temp when snowing −4.5 °C Japan −3.5 °C

Days over 5 cm 20 a winter · Japan 18

The 63 ski areas in Nagano get 317 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 6th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Hakuba 47 at 668 cm, 16th in Japan.

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 55% of January. That is in line with the national median of 57%. March brings 51 cm here, about the same as the national median of 46 cm.

On the quality of what falls: 12% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −4.5 °C, and 20 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 Shiga Kogen Terakoya Ski Area, 5th of 397 in Japan.

Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 197 cm.

79cm Dec

93cm Jan

74cm Feb

51cm Mar

Snowfall by month (prefecture median, last 12 winters)

All ski areas in Nagano

The season has not started, so these are in order of typical snowfall.

	Ski area	Typical snowfall	Quality (Japan)	Powder Score	Temperature	Live Cameras
1	Hakuba 47	668 cm	#19	10	11.5 ℃	🎥
2	Hakuba Iwatake	668 cm	#47	10	11.1 ℃	🎥
3	Tsugaike Kogen	668 cm	#23	8	11.4 ℃	🎥
4	Hakuba Cortina	635 cm	#73	10	12.4 ℃	🎥
5	Hakuba Norikura Onsen Ski Resort	635 cm	#35	8	11.9 ℃	🎥
6	X-JAM Takaifuji	568 cm	#99	10	13.7 ℃	🎥
7	Sakae Club Ski Area	553 cm	#162	10	13.6 ℃	🎥
8	Togakushi Ski Area	553 cm	#6	10	9.5 ℃	🎥
9	Nozawa Onsen	450 cm	#134	10	11.7 ℃	🎥
10	Togari Onsen Ski Resort	450 cm	#213	10	13.7 ℃	🎥
11	Jiigatake Snow Resort	449 cm	#95	10	12.9 ℃	🎥
12	Kashimayari Snow Resort	449 cm	#101	10	12.3 ℃	🎥
13	Kurohime Kogen	432 cm	#68	10	12.8 ℃	🎥
14	Tangram Madarao Ski Circus	432 cm	#63	10	12.4 ℃	🎥
15	Hakuba Sanosaka Snow Resort	415 cm	#153	10	12.3 ℃	🎥
16	Hakuba Goryu	414 cm	#66	10	12.4 ℃	🎥
17	Hakuba Happo-One	414 cm	#102	10	12.1 ℃	🎥
18	Ryuoo Ski Park	405 cm	#27	10	10.8 ℃	🎥
19	IIZUNA HIGASHI KOGEN RESORT	357 cm	#37	10	11.9 ℃	🎥
20	Kijimadaira Ski Resort	349 cm	#287	8	13.7 ℃	🎥
21	Shiga Kogen Higashidateyama Ski Area	333 cm	#17	10	8.3 ℃	🎥
22	Shiga Kogen Ichinose Family Ski Area	333 cm	#16	10	8.4 ℃	🎥
23	Shiga Kogen Ichinose Yamanokami Ski Area	333 cm	#22	10	9.2 ℃
24	Shiga Kogen Kumanoyu Ski Area	333 cm	#14	10	8.5 ℃	🎥
25	Shiga Kogen Okushiga Kogen Ski Area	333 cm	#18	10	8.6 ℃
26	Shiga Kogen Terakoya Ski Area	333 cm	#5	10	7.4 ℃
27	Shiga Kogen Yakebitaiyama Ski Area	333 cm	#15	10	8.7 ℃	🎥
28	Shiga Kogen Yokoteyama Ski Area	333 cm	#8	10	7.9 ℃	🎥
29	Kitashiga Komaruyama Ski Resort	327 cm	#123	10	13.2 ℃	🎥
30	Yomase Onsen Ski Area	327 cm	#131	10	13.1 ℃	🎥
31	Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort	318 cm	#42	10	9.3 ℃	🎥
32	Blue Resort Norikura	317 cm	#36	10	10.2 ℃	🎥
33	Shiga Kogen	255 cm	#77	10	9 ℃	🎥
34	YAMABOKU Wild Snow Park	255 cm	#60	10	9.2 ℃	🎥
35	Mia Ski Resort	250 cm	#121	10	9.9 ℃	🎥
36	Kisofukushima Ski Resort	231 cm	#127	10	10.3 ℃	🎥
37	Minenohara Kogen	198 cm	#119	10	10.9 ℃	🎥
38	Yabuhara Kogen	182 cm	#279	10	10.9 ℃	🎥
39	Hijiri Kogen Ski Resort	155 cm	#282	10	11.5 ℃	🎥
40	Sugadaira Kogen Davos Hill Ski Area	153 cm	#163	10	10.5 ℃	🎥
41	Sugadaira Taro Area	153 cm	#182	10	10.9 ℃	🎥
42	Sugadairakogen Pine Beak Ski Area	153 cm	#174	10	11.1 ℃	🎥
43	Pilatus Tateshina Snow Resort	143 cm	#197	10	8.4 ℃	🎥
44	Asahi Prime Ski Area	142 cm	#361	10	13.4 ℃	🎥
45	Shirakaba Kogen Kokusai Ski	140 cm	#241	10	9.9 ℃	🎥
46	Chateraise Ski Valley Koumi	136 cm	#276	10	10.9 ℃
47	Tateshina Tokyu Ski Area	136 cm	#293	10	12.2 ℃	🎥
48	Yachiho Kōgen Ski Resort	136 cm	#234	10	9.9 ℃
49	Fujimi Panorama Resort	134 cm	#324	10	12 ℃	🎥
50	Echo Valley	133 cm	#272	10	10.1 ℃	🎥
51	Family Gelände Kirigamine Ski Area	133 cm	#268	10	10 ℃	🎥
52	Kurumayama Kogen SKYPARK	133 cm	#252	10	9.7 ℃	🎥
53	Shirakaba 2 in 1	133 cm	#265	10	10.3 ℃	🎥
54	Shirakabako Royal Hill	133 cm	#280	10	10.5 ℃	🎥
55	Blanche Takayama	131 cm	#262	10	10.6 ℃	🎥
56	Fujimi Kougen Snow Resort	124 cm	#305	10	12.6 ℃	🎥
57	Komagane Ski Resort	122 cm	#344	10	15.2 ℃	🎥
58	Chateraise Ski Valley Nobeyama	113 cm	#302	10	10.9 ℃	🎥
59	Chuo-do Ina Ski Resort	106 cm	#363	10	14.8 ℃	🎥
60	Saku Ski Garden Parada	90 cm	#357	10	14 ℃	🎥
61	Jibusaka Ski Area	88 cm	#349	10	12.7 ℃	🎥
62	Prince Hotels and Resorts Karuizawa	81 cm	#356	10	13.3 ℃	🎥
63	Hiraya Kogen Ski Area	59 cm	#393	10	14.2 ℃	🎥

Onsen towns in Nagano

Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.

Otari Onsen 690 cm a season
Shirahone Onsen 342 cm a season
Tazawa and Kutsukake Onsen 154 cm a season
Utsukushigahara Onsen 110 cm a season
Maruko Onsen-kyo 89 cm a season

Deep snow close to a city

Ski areas averaging 300 cm or more, by straight-line distance from the nearest large city.

IIZUNA HIGASHI KOGEN RESORT about 10 km from Nagano · 357 cm a season
Togakushi Ski Area about 12 km from Nagano · 553 cm a season
Kurohime Kogen about 20 km from Nagano · 432 cm a season

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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

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