23 24 DAIKURA NOW 0315 Ranking of popular ski resorts in Tohoku
By: だいくらスキー場 · 2024-03-15
Aizu Kogen Daikura Ski Resort is a ski area in Fukushima, Japan, on slopes between roughly 833 and 1,235 m. Its mapped area is about 1.8 km across, with 18 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 340 cm of snowfall a season, 111th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (437 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (197 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 116 cm. Snowfall days average −4.1 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 86th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Koriyama, about 71 km away. Below is a link to its official live camera.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
11.8℃
Max wind
7.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
833–1235m
Across
1.8km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
340 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
197 cm
A typical winter: 335 cm. The best: 437 cm.
World rank
307
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
111
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
140
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 940 m, 174 m above the national median.
Quality rank
86
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-4.1°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
14%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
22%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
22 km/h
Dryness 0.44
Frequency 0.64
Freedom from rain 0.64
Calm when snowing 0.92
The tick marks the median across every Japanese ski area we measure. All four bars run the same way — longer is better.
The quality score deliberately excludes how much snow falls — it uses temperature, frequency, rain and wind. Snowing a lot and snowing well are different things.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort | 7.0 km | 322 cm | 393 |
| Aizukogen Nango Ski Area | 11 km | 394 cm | 184 |
| Aizu Kogen Takahata | 18 km | 439 cm | 120 |
| Oze Hinoemata Onsen Ski Resort | 26 km | 439 cm | 120 |
| Hunter Mountain Shiobara Ski Area | 30 km | 193 cm | 1217 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 46% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 53 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
94cmDec
116cmJan
77cmFeb
53cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 340 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 197 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 437 cm (2.2 times as much). For 63% of the 397 ski areas in Japan, the leanest winter was the same 2015/16: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
197
437
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Runs and lifts
Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Marked runs
18
Run length
9km
Lifts
6
Vertical
383m
Top 1,219 m · base 836 m
Run map
NoviceIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.2 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 26%
East 73%
South 1%
West 0%
99% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.
By difficulty
Novice 7
Intermediate 5
Advanced 3
Other 3
Lift types
- Chairlift5
- Magic carpet1
See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗
Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.
Live Cameras
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Aizu webcams & snow report — all 8 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 24 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 会津田島鉱泉望月四郎 | 4.1 km | 24℃ cold | — | — | — |
These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.
Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
Worth seeing nearby
Places within 20 km of this ski area, for a day off the slopes or an evening. Chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 駒止湿原 | Mountain | 5 km |
| 南会津町前沢 | Old streets | 13 km |
| Tokusa Onsen木賊温泉 | Hot spring town | 18.1 km |
Based on the Japanese Wikipedia lists of sights in each prefecture, as compiled in travel-log-data (CC BY-SA 4.0). English names from Wikidata (CC0). The content of this section is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 37.1788, 139.6306
Places to stay nearby
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 やまの家 | — | — | 2.5 km | 会津田島駅より車で２０分、バスで３０分 |
| 民宿きのこ屋 | — | — | 2.6 km | 会津田島駅／東北自動車道 西那須野塩原ＩＣより国道４００〜国道１２１〜国道２８９ |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
6 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Fukushima
- Japan Is Sold on Powder. Measured, It Is the Easiest Big Ski Country to Learn In. Half of Japan's pisted kilometres are graded easy or novice — against 24% in the United States and 28% in Canada. And 255 of Japan's 397 ski areas have a natural hot-spring source within 5 km. Here are the numbers, the caveat about grading, and the resorts where a first-timer gets the most of both.
- Tengendai Kogen: Some of Japan's Best Snow Quality, and No Live Camera Snow falls at −7.8 °C, rain arrives on 12% of winter days, and the top station is at 1,860 m. Eight places to stay, and no live camera of its own.
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