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Ani Ski Resort (Mt. Moriyoshi) is a ski area in Akita, Japan, on slopes between roughly 527 and 1,221 m. Its mapped area is about 3.8 km across, with 12 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 8.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 370 cm of snowfall a season, 92nd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (487 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (203 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 120 cm. Snowfall days average −5.8 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 39th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Akita, about 46 km away.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
11℃
Max wind
9.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
527–1221m
Across
3.8km
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
370 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
203 cm
A typical winter: 368 cm. The best: 487 cm.
World rank
226
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
92
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
182
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 806 m, 40 m above the national median.
Quality rank
39
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-5.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
17%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
27%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.56
Frequency 0.76
Freedom from rain 0.56
Calm when snowing 0.97
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matsumori Ski Area | 8.5 km | 351 cm | 281 |
| Ani Yuguchinai Ski Area | 11 km | 280 cm | 574 |
| Akita Hachimantai Ski Area | 26 km | 437 cm | 122 |
| Taiheizan Ski Area Opus | 31 km | 216 cm | 988 |
| Tazawako Ski Resort | 32 km | 318 cm | 408 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 48% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 58 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
108cmDec
120cmJan
85cmFeb
58cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 370 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 203 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 487 cm (2.4 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.
203
487
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
12
Run length
8.3km
Lifts
4
Vertical
660m
Top 1,202 m · base 542 m
Run map
EasyIntermediate Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.8 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10°
Which way the slopes face
North 5%
East 1%
South 37%
West 57%
Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Easy 9
Intermediate 3
Lift types
- Chairlift2
- Gondola1
- Rope tow1
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.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Moriyoshi森吉山 | Mountain | 4.2 km |
| Bear Garden阿仁熊牧場 | Museum | 6.3 km |
| Yasu Falls安の滝 | Nature | 9.5 km |
| Tamagawa Dam玉川ダム (秋田県) | Nature | 18.8 km |
| Tamagawa Hot Spring玉川温泉 (秋田県) | Hot spring town | 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 ↗ Coordinates: 39.9654, 140.5064
Places to stay nearby
4 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 森吉山妖精の森コテージラウル | ¥5,000 | 4.00 39 reviews | 4.2 km | 秋田内陸線「阿仁前田駅」／Ｒ285阿仁前田十字路交差点から車で２０分 |
| 打当温泉「マタギの湯」 | ¥9,000 | 4.44 200 reviews | 5.5 km | 秋田内陸線「阿仁マタギ駅」より2ｋｍ(無料送迎有/要予約） |
| 阿仁の宿 ホテルフッシュ | ¥9,000 | 3.73 112 reviews | 4.1 km | 東北新幹線 盛岡駅→田沢湖線 角館駅→秋田内陸線 秋田内陸縦貫鉄道 阿仁合駅→ホテル（無料送迎）※要予約 |
| 郷土料理の民宿 テレマーク山荘 森吉山 | — | — | 6.4 km | 阿仁前田駅からお車にて２０分 |
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Stay nearby
5 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 Akita
- Ski and Soak in Japan: Which Ski Areas Have a Hot Spring Source Next Door, and How Hot the Water Is We matched 7,203 analysed hot spring sources to Japan's ski areas. 255 of 397 have one within 5 km, 145 of them at 42 °C or hotter, and 54 have one within 1 km. These are the ski areas that pair top snow with hot water close by, and the ones where the water is strongly acidic.
- Will There Be Snow at Japan's Winter Festivals? Three Winters, Measured Japan's winter festivals are photographed in deep snow. We measured what was actually on the ground during each one across three winters — and checked the 580-year record of a frozen lake that has now failed eight years running.
- Japan's Snow Huts Are Water Shrines. The Snowiest Towns Do Not Have Them. The kamakura is not a shelter from snow. It is a well-side shrine to a water god, roughly 450 years old, and Yokote built its huts on 6 cm of snow in 2024. We measured the snow at five towns that hold one.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52