2026.1.10 大雪山旭岳 金庫岩から地獄谷パウダースキー
By: Saitoto Koji · 2026-01-10
Asahidake is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,109 and 1,609 m. Its mapped area is about 2.8 km across, with 7 marked runs and 1 lift (about 6.5 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 388 cm of snowfall a season, 81st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (628 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (304 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (122 and 94 cm on average). Snowfall days are cold, averaging −11.6 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 2nd of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Asahikawa, about 37 km away. Below are links to 2 official live cameras.
Base depth
0cm
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
5.5℃
Max wind
23.9km/h
Elevation (est.)
1109–1609m
Across
2.8km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
Score breakdown
Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 0/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🌦️ 8 Oct | 0 | 3.1 / 7.8 | 23.9 |
| 🌦️ 9 Oct | 0 | 4 / 9.4 | 14.7 |
| ☁️ 10 Oct | 0 | 6.9 / 13.6 | 11.6 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | 6.3 / 12.5 | 12.5 |
| ☁️ 12 Oct | 0 | 3.7 / 12.1 | 7.6 |
| 🌦️ 13 Oct | 0 | 3.9 / 11.5 | 12.2 |
| ❄️ 14 Oct | 3.8 | -1.5 / 8.7 | 23.9 |
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
7
Run length
6.5km
Lifts
1
Vertical
484m
Top 1,589 m · base 1,105 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.3 km
Steepest pitch25°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.6°
Which way the slopes face
North 3%
East 2%
South 38%
West 58%
Only 5% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Easy 3
Intermediate 2
Advanced 2
Lift types
- Cable car1
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 mountainBase camera on the official home page ↗Operated by: 大雪山旭岳ロープウェイRoads nearby国道39号 ↗From the resort: 13.4 kmOperated by: 北海道開発局
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.
Daisetsuzan webcams & snow report — all 2 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.
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
388 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
304 cm
A typical winter: 388 cm. The best: 628 cm.
World rank
194
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
81
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
68
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,295 m, 529 m above the national median.
Quality rank
2
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-11.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
4%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
19%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.97
Frequency 0.53
Freedom from rain 0.91
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ski Area | 11 km | 396 cm | 178 |
| Canmore Ski Resort | 23 km | 215 cm | 995 |
| Touma Ski Area | 30 km | 232 cm | 853 |
| Pippu Ski Slopes | 40 km | 220 cm | 953 |
| Inosawa Sky Slopes | 40 km | 200 cm | 1149 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 91% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 86 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
122cmDec
94cmJan
85cmFeb
86cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 388 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 304 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 628 cm (2.1 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.
304
628
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.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
35 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 92.8 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 旭の湯天人の湯-1 | 0.5 km | 47.3℃ hot | 6 neutral | — | 1988 |
| 勇駒別温泉旭の湯A | 0.6 km | 52.8℃ hot | 5.98 mildly acidic | — | 1977 |
| 旭の湯矢沢温泉 | 0.6 km | 47.8℃ hot | 5.9 mildly acidic | — | 1977 |
| 旭の湯旭の湯A | 0.6 km | 52.2℃ hot | 5.9 mildly acidic | — | 1977 |
| 勇駒別温泉弘法の湯 | 0.9 km | 45.6℃ hot | 6.1 neutral | — | 1977 |
| 旭岳噴気孔 | 1.9 km | 92.8℃ hot | 0.46 acidic | — | 1977 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Asahidake Ropeway旭岳ロープウェイ | Nature | 0.1 km |
| Asahidake Onsen旭岳温泉 | Hot spring town | 2 km |
| Asahi-dake旭岳 | Mountain | 3.4 km |
| Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group大雪山 | Mountain | 3.4 km |
| Tenninkyō Onsen天人峡温泉 | Hot spring town | 4.7 km |
| Sounkyo層雲峡 | Nature | 14.9 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: 43.6565, 142.8127
Places to stay nearby
5 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 旭川旭岳温泉 湯元 湧駒荘 | ¥14,000 | 4.60 775 reviews | 2.0 km | 車で/旭川市旭山動物園より50分/旭川空港より40分/美瑛より40分/富良野より90分/旭川駅発旭岳行きバス旭岳温泉入口 |
| ラビスタ大雪山（共立リゾート） | ¥17,050 | 4.33 1085 reviews | 1.8 km | 旭川駅⇒車約60分 |
| 東川・旭岳温泉 ホテルベアモンテ | ¥19,650 | 4.54 574 reviews | 1.3 km | JR旭川駅より車60分。路線バスいで湯号旭川駅より90分、旭川空港より50分、ホテルベアモンテ前バス停下車 |
| 旭岳温泉 ホテルディアバレー | — | — | 2.2 km | ※ホテルディアバレーは現在休業中です。同エリア内、旭岳温泉ホテルベアモンテをご利用ください※ |
| 旭岳温泉ホステル ケイズハウス北海道 | — | — | 2.2 km | 旭川空港よりお車にて約４５分 |
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Stay nearby
15 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
10 Hotel 4 Hostel 1 Guest house
Nearest: 1.3 km
Nearest first
- Art Village Toki Hostel 1.4 km
- Daisetsuzan-Sanso Hotel 1.5 km
- Hakuunso Hotel 1.7 km
- Yumoto Yukomanso Hotel 2.1 km
- Asahidake Onsen Hostel K's House Hokkaido Hostel 2.2 km
- Hotel Deer Valley Hotel 2.3 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Asahidake
- Which Japanese Ski Areas Keep Their Snow at 4°C of Warming? New research from Hokkaido University puts 7 ski areas on stable natural snow at 4°C. Our own data on 397 Japanese ski areas says 17 of the ranking's top 20 are on the wrong side of that line.
- 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.
- Hokkaido Wine Is Sold on Its Temperature Swing. The Swing Is Among Japan's Smallest. Yoichi's heat sum sits between Mosel and Burgundy, which is why the Pinot Noir works. Its day-night range in the ripening weeks is 6.6°C against Burgundy's 9.6 — and the axis where Japan and Europe genuinely part company is rain.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52