Akoyama Skijo Snowpal is a ski area in Shiga, Japan, on slopes between roughly 196 and 246 m. Its mapped area is about 0.3 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.2 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 142 cm of snowfall a season, 330th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (234 cm), brought more than 6 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (35 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 53 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 4.9 km away measured 326 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 162 cm from the model. Snowfall days average 1.0 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 387th of 397 in Japan.
Below are links to 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohana Resort | 12 km | 116 cm | 2148 |
| Gransnow Okuibuki | 16 km | 194 cm | 1201 |
| Yogo Kogen Resort | 18 km | 249 cm | 743 |
| Imajo 365 | 21 km | 249 cm | 743 |
| Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 24 km | 113 cm | 2196 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 21% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 11 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 142 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 35 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 234 cm (6.7 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.
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
69% 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
Lift types
- T-bar1
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
Okuibuki and Yogo webcams & snow report — all 5 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 柳ケ瀬 weather station — 4.9 km from this ski area, 1 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 326 cm |
| 2023/24 | 242 cm |
| 2024/25 | 439 cm |
| 2025/26 | 297 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 162 cm.
A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records
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 15.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 余呉湖温泉 | 2.3 km | 15.5℃ cold | 6.2 neutral | iron | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Yogo余呉湖 | Nature | 3.6 km |
| Shizugatake賤ヶ岳 | Mountain | 5.1 km |
| Odani Castle小谷城 | Historic site | 11 km |
| Chikubu Island竹生島 | Nature | 15.3 km |
| Hōgon-ji Temple宝厳寺 | Temple | 15.6 km |
| Nagahama Castle長浜城 (近江国) | Historic site | 19.1 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
8 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 上丹生（かみにゅう）山根邸 別館 | ¥5,500 | — | 2.3 km | 北陸自動車道木之本インターより約15分、ＪＲ北陸本線余呉駅よりバス「余呉バス」で２０分 |
| 薪を使う、露天風呂、ご飯が出来る、自給自足体験型ゲストハウス／民泊 | ¥5,655 | — | 1.8 km | 余呉駅から徒歩で約４分 |
| 自然の中で過ごす贅沢な田舎時間－Ｔ ＨＯＵＳＥ ＹＯＧＯ／民泊 | ¥5,800 | — | 1.9 km | 余呉駅から徒歩で約３分 |
| 「澄み渡る地下水が奏でる」自然と調和する癒しの宿 ＾ | ¥7,540 | — | 2.2 km | 余呉駅から車で約８分 |
| ウッディパル余呉 | ¥8,250 | 4.57 36 reviews | 0.1 km | 木ノ本駅から余呉バス（菅並洞寿院行き）乗車、ウッディパル下車すぐ（約20分） |
| ＹＯＧＯ ＲＥＳＴ ＶＩＬＬＡ＇Ｓ | ¥18,400 | 4.00 6 reviews | 2.3 km | 余呉駅から徒歩約７分、木之本ＩＣ から車で約１０分 |
| 大見いこいの広場 | — | — | 2.3 km | ＪＲ木ノ本駅より車で約１５分 |
| 上丹生山根邸 本館 | — | — | 2.3 km | 北陸自動車道木之本インターより約15分、ＪＲ北陸本線余呉駅よりバス「余呉バス」で２０分 |
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Stay nearby
8 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 4.1 km
Nearest first
- Choijian Guest house 4.1 km
- Seisenkaku Hotel 4.5 km
- 余呉湖荘 Hostel 4.6 km
- 草野旅館 Hotel 4.6 km
- ゲストハウス ミエイ Guest house 6.5 km
- 旅館紅鮎 Hotel 11.3 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Shiga
- Is Western Japan Snowier Than It Looks? Our Model Against the Weather Stations Western Japan's ski areas look thin in our data — a median of 125 cm against a national 249 cm. Against 16 Japan Meteorological Agency stations, the model we use returns 44% of what the ground records there. The region is far snowier than our own numbers say.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52