Ski Resorts in Niigata

Niigata has 48 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 45 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 1855 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.

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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 Niigata

Typical snowfall 567 cm #1 of 31 prefectures

Worst of 12 winters 306 cm prefecture median

Rain days 32% Japan 16%

Temp when snowing −1.5 °C Japan −3.5 °C

Days over 5 cm 43 a winter · Japan 18

The 48 ski areas in Niigata get 567 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it the snowiest of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Okutadami Maruyama Ski Resort at 765 cm, 1st in Japan.

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 38% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 57%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 76 cm here, more than the national median of 46 cm.

On the quality of what falls: 32% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.5 °C, and 43 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 Kagura Area, 11th of 397 in Japan.

Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 306 cm.

157cm Dec

200cm Jan

137cm Feb

76cm Mar

Snowfall by month (prefecture median, last 12 winters)

All ski areas in Niigata

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	Okutadami Maruyama Ski Resort	765 cm	#70	10	12.9 ℃	🎥
2	Muikamachi Hakkaisan	728 cm	#120	10	14.4 ℃	🎥
3	Iwappara	712 cm	#183	10	14 ℃	🎥
4	Nakazato Snow Wood Ski Area	712 cm	#216	10	14.5 ℃	🎥
5	Yuzawa Nakazato Ski Resort	712 cm	#206	10	14.8 ℃	🎥
6	Yuzawa Park Ski Resort	712 cm	#237	10	15.6 ℃	🎥
7	Itoigawa Seaside Valley Ski Resort	703 cm	#286	10	14.9 ℃	🎥
8	Ippon Sugi Ski Resort	695 cm	#251	10	15.5 ℃	🎥
9	Ishiuchi Hanaoka Ski Area	695 cm	#267	10	15.8 ℃	🎥
10	Ishiuchi Maruyama Ski Resort	695 cm	#173	10	14.7 ℃	🎥
11	Joetsu International	695 cm	#193	10	13.8 ℃	🎥
12	Maiko Snow Resort	695 cm	#228	10	14.8 ℃	🎥
13	Charmant Hiuchi Snow Resort	690 cm	#166	10	14 ℃	🎥
14	Seki Onsen Ski Area	689 cm	#30	10	12.2 ℃	🎥
15	ARAI SNOW RESORT	663 cm	#156	10	13.7 ℃	🎥
16	Tainai Ski and Snowboard area	629 cm	#253	10	15.6 ℃	🎥
17	Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort	618 cm	#192	10	13.1 ℃	🎥
18	Kandatsu Kogen Ski Resort	618 cm	#139	10	13.9 ℃	🎥
19	Nakasato Kiyotsu	618 cm	#179	10	13.9 ℃	🎥
20	NASPA Ski Garden	618 cm	#217	10	14.5 ℃	🎥
21	New Greenpia Tsunan	618 cm	#158	10	13.4 ℃	🎥
22	Yuzawa Kogen Ski Resort	618 cm	#191	10	13.4 ℃	🎥
23	Mitsumata Area	589 cm	#133	10	12.9 ℃	🎥
24	Ninox Snow Park	567 cm	#154	10	14.1 ℃	🎥
25	Kagura	565 cm	#34	10	9.8 ℃	🎥
26	Cupid Valley Ski Area	553 cm	#149	10	14.2 ℃	🎥
27	Chateau Shiozawa Ski Area Yoshizato	546 cm	#263	10	14.9 ℃	🎥
28	Muica Snow Resort	546 cm	#195	10	14.2 ℃	🎥
29	Kagura Area	542 cm	#11	10	10.5 ℃	🎥
30	Suhara Ski Area	538 cm	#271	10	14.3 ℃	🎥
31	Yakushi Ski Area	532 cm	#322	10	16.4 ℃	🎥
32	Budoh Snow Resort	472 cm	#256	10	14.2 ℃	🎥
33	Hakkai Sanroku Ski Area	451 cm	#269	10	15.9 ℃	🎥
34	Tashiro Area	447 cm	#12	10	10.1 ℃	🎥
35	Naeba	446 cm	#53	10	11.4 ℃	🎥
36	Akakura Kanko Ski Resort	445 cm	#92	10	11.8 ℃	🎥
37	Akakura Onsen Ski Area	445 cm	#93	10	12.6 ℃	🎥
38	Kyukamura Myoko	445 cm	#103	10	13 ℃	🎥
39	Koshi Kogen Ski Area	433 cm	#273	10	14.5 ℃	🎥
40	Madarao Kogen Mountain Resort	432 cm	#64	10	11.6 ℃	🎥
41	Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort	432 cm	#74	10	12.6 ℃
42	Itsukamachi Ski Area	412 cm	#240	10	16 ℃	🎥
43	Koide Ski Area	370 cm	#327	10	15.7 ℃	🎥
44	Mikawa Onsen	363 cm	#297	10	14.6 ℃	🎥
45	Myoko Suginohara	357 cm	#48	10	11.6 ℃	🎥
46	Nagaoka City Ski Area	320 cm	#316	10	16.7 ℃	🎥
47	Fuyudorigoe Ski Garden	302 cm	#352	10	16.4 ℃
48	Sado Daira Ski Resort	148 cm	#380	10	15.4 ℃

Onsen towns in Niigata

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

Muikamachi Onsen 546 cm a season
Seki and Tsubame Onsen 446 cm a season
Gozu Onsen-kyo 253 cm a season
Iwamuro Onsen 131 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.

Madarao Kogen Mountain Resort about 24 km from Nagano · 432 cm a season
Myoko Suginohara about 24 km from Nagano · 357 cm a season
Akakura Kanko Ski Resort about 27 km from Nagano · 445 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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