Ski Resorts in Yamanashi
Yamanashi has 3 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 3 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 1829 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 Yamanashi
The 3 ski areas in Yamanashi get 113 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 22nd of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, below the national median of 249 cm. The snowiest is Fujiten Snow Resort at 125 cm, 353rd in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March delivers about as much as January. March brings 44 cm here, about the same as the national median of 46 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 17% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.4 °C, and 7 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). Rain is close to 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 Sun Meadows Kiyosato Ski Area, 285th of 397 in Japan.
Even in the worst of the last twelve winters, the typical ski area here still got 55 cm.
All ski areas in Yamanashi
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 | Fujiten Snow Resort | 125 cm | #338 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 11.7 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 2 | Sun Meadows Kiyosato Ski Area | 113 cm | #285 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 10.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
| 3 | Kamui Misaka Ski | 99 cm | #378 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 14.4 ℃ | 🎥 |
Ski areas near Yamanashi
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Yamanashi (up to 17 km).
With only 3 ski areas in Yamanashi, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Chateraise Ski Valley Nobeyama in Nagano, about 8 km away. The snowiest of these is Pilatus Tateshina Snow Resort in Nagano at 143 cm a season, about the same as Fujiten Snow Resort, the snowiest in Yamanashi (125 cm).
Onsen towns in Yamanashi
Designated national health-resort onsen in this prefecture, snowiest first.
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