US Freeski Halfpipe Girls Training at Aomori Spring
By: Aomori Spring Ski Resort 青森スプリング・スキーリゾート · 2018-02-13
Aomori Spring Resort is a ski area in Aomori, Japan, on slopes between roughly 337 and 1,069 m. Its mapped area is about 3.9 km across, with 26 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 19 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 324 cm of snowfall a season, 132nd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (227 cm), reached 70% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 100 cm. Snowfall days average −4.9 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 125th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Aomori, about 39 km away. 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.
Temperature
13.6℃
Max wind
14.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
337–1069m
Across
3.9km
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
324 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
227 cm
A typical winter: 319 cm. The best: 414 cm.
World rank
387
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
132
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
232
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 636 m, 130 m below the national median.
Quality rank
125
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-4.9°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
18%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
17%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
19 km/h
Dryness 0.49
Frequency 0.49
Freedom from rain 0.54
Calm when snowing 0.96
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iwakisan Hyakuzawa Ski Resort | 6.3 km | 324 cm | 387 |
| Kase Ski Area | 28 km | 234 cm | 832 |
| Owani Onsen Ski Resort International Area | 31 km | 233 cm | 844 |
| Fujisato Choei Ski Area | 40 km | 200 cm | 1149 |
| Moya Hills | 43 km | 339 cm | 309 |
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 48 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
96cmDec
100cmJan
80cmFeb
48cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 324 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 227 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 414 cm (1.8 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.
227
414
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
26
Run length
19km
Lifts
4
Vertical
520m
Top 916 m · base 396 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.1 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 88%
East 3%
South 0%
West 9%
91% 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
Easy 15
Intermediate 9
Advanced 2
Lift types
- Chairlift3
- Gondola1
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
On the mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: 青森スプリング・スキーリゾートRoads nearby国道 7号 ↗From the resort: 18 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局 青森河川国道事務所
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.
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
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 61 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 嶽嶽 | 4.6 km | 46℃ hot | 2 acidic | iron, acidic | — |
| 黒森常盤野 | 4.9 km | 61℃ hot | 6.6 neutral | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Iwaki岩木山 | Mountain | 3.3 km |
| Ōmori Katsuyama Site大森勝山遺跡 | Historic site | 6.4 km |
| Iwakiyama Shrine岩木山神社 | Shrine | 8.1 km |
| Tsugaru Fujimi Lake津軽富士見湖 | Nature | 11.7 km |
| Kizukuri Station木造駅 | Landmark | 15.9 km |
| Hirosaki Castle弘前城 | Historic site | 17.1 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: 40.6821, 140.2858
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ロックウッド・ホテル＆スパ | ¥10,450 | 3.76 484 reviews | 1.5 km | ＪＲ鯵ヶ沢駅より車でおよそ20分 |
| 鯵ヶ沢キャンピングパーク | — | — | 2.7 km | 鯵ヶ沢駅よりお車で２０分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
3 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 Aomori
- Deep Snow, 20 km from a Japanese City — and Nobody Writes About It Togakushi gets 553 cm a season and sits 12 km from Nagano. Not one of these twelve ski areas has an English Wikipedia page. Here is what is there.
- 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.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52