Akasawa Ski Area
This ski area has closed.
Source: ja.wikipedia.org (checked 2026-09-15)
Akasawa Ski Area is a ski area in Gunma, Japan, on slopes between roughly 719 and 1,046 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 258 cm of snowfall a season, 181st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2020/21 (204 cm), reached 79% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 85 cm. Snowfall days average −2.6 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 212th of 397 in Japan.
Below are links to 2 official live cameras.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naeba | 7.2 km | 446 cm | 114 |
| Norn Minakami | 9.6 km | 368 cm | 233 |
| Kagura | 13 km | 565 cm | 55 |
| White Valley Ski Area | 14 km | 368 cm | 233 |
| Tanigawadake Tenjindaira Ski Area | 15 km | 368 cm | 233 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 54% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 46 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 258 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2020/21 with 204 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 389 cm (1.9 times as much).
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 marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Chairlift2
- Rope tow1
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
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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 43 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 法師旭の湯 | 1.5 km | 43℃ hot | 8.8 alkaline | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shimagawa Dam四万川ダム | Landmark | 5.6 km |
| Shima Onsen四万温泉 | Hot spring town | 6.8 km |
| Mount Tanigawa谷川岳 | Mountain | 14.9 km |
| Nagurumi Castle名胡桃城 | Historic site | 16.2 km |
| Doai Station土合駅 | Landmark | 16.7 km |
| Marble Village Lockheart Castle大理石村ロックハート城 | Historic site | 18.2 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.
Places to stay nearby
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 法師温泉 長寿館 | ¥18,700 | 4.36 499 reviews | 1.5 km | 上越新幹線 上毛高原駅より猿ヶ京乗り換え法師温泉行きバスで５０分／関越自動車道 月夜野ＩＣより２５ｋｍ（約４０分） |
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Stay nearby
16 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 1.5 km
Nearest first
- 法師温泉長寿館 Hotel 1.5 km
- Itoen Hotel Shima Hotel 6.2 km
- 四万ゆずりは荘 Hotel 6.5 km
- Tokiwasure-no-Yado Yoshimoto Hotel 6.5 km
- 叶屋旅館 Hotel 6.6 km
- Sekizenkan Honkan Hotel 6.9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Gunma
- Everywhere on Earth You Climb for Snow. Japan Is the One Place You Drive Toward the Sea. Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.
- How Close to Rain Does the Snow Fall? Japan, the Alps and North America Compared We measured how close to freezing the snow already falls at 240 randomly drawn resorts in the Alps and North America, and at all 397 in Japan. Japan is not one place: Honshu is among the most exposed, Hokkaido among the least.
- Why Is Hokkaido's Snow Colder? Latitude, Elevation and Rain Across 397 Japanese ski areas, elevation sets the temperature and latitude does almost nothing to it — inside Honshu, going north is worth nothing at all. What latitude buys instead is the absence of rain.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52