日本一優しいスキー場？あわすのスキー場 #snowboarding #スノーボード #富山
By: UTASNOW · 2026-02-13
Awasuno Ski Area is a ski area in Toyama, Japan, on slopes between roughly 573 and 906 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 4 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 1.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 425 cm of snowfall a season, 67th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (298 cm), reached 70% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 152 cm. Snowfall days average −2.2 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 185th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Toyama, about 24 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
14.9℃
Max wind
7.5km/h
Elevation (est.)
573–906m
Across
1.0km
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
425 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
298 cm
A typical winter: 423 cm. The best: 549 cm.
World rank
142
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
67
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
222
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 683 m, 83 m below the national median.
Quality rank
185
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.2°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
48%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
29%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
13 km/h
Dryness 0.30
Frequency 0.82
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 1.00
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tateyama Sanroku Ski Area | 1.8 km | 682 cm | 20 |
| Jiigatake Snow Resort | 32 km | 449 cm | 110 |
| Hida Nagareha Resort | 34 km | 258 cm | 673 |
| Kashimayari Snow Resort | 35 km | 449 cm | 110 |
| Hakuba 47 | 35 km | 668 cm | 21 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 41% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 63 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
101cmDec
152cmJan
109cmFeb
63cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 425 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 298 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 549 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.
298
549
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
4
Run length
1.9km
Lifts
2
Vertical
230m
Top 835 m · base 605 m
Run map
Other Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.1°
Which way the slopes face
North 43%
East 1%
South 1%
West 54%
Only 44% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Other 4
Lift types
- Chairlift2
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.
Tateyama webcams & snow report — all 2 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
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Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
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 33 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 真谷温泉 | 4.5 km | 33℃ lukewarm | 9.6 alkaline | sulphur | 1964 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bijodaira Station美女平駅 | Landmark | 1.7 km |
| Tateyama Sabō Erosion Control Works Service Train国土交通省立山砂防工事専用軌道 | Landmark | 6.9 km |
| Shōmyō Falls称名滝 | Nature | 7.1 km |
| Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route立山黒部アルペンルート | Nature | 7.9 km |
| Mount Tsurugi剱岳 | Mountain | 16.4 km |
| Kurobe Dam黒部ダム | Landmark | 19.5 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: 36.5734, 137.4442
Places to stay nearby
13 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 立山観光に最適！ゲストハウスしろいきせき ＾ | ¥5,220 | — | 0.4 km | 立山駅から車で約８分 |
| 立山山麓温泉 ペンション愛花夢＜富山県＞ | ¥5,500 | 4.32 73 reviews | 0.8 km | JR富山駅→富山地方鉄道立山線：立山駅下車／北陸自動車道：富山方面→立山IC→立山山麓方面 |
| 立山山麓温泉 里の湯雷鳥 | ¥5,610 | 4.59 211 reviews | 2.3 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅下車（連絡いただければ、立山駅まで送迎します） |
| ホテルテトラリゾート立山国際（旧立山国際ホテル） | ¥6,750 | 4.01 836 reviews | 2.7 km | 電車利用：富山地方鉄道立山駅より無料送迎あり約5分 車利用：立山ICから約30分、富山ICから約45分、雄山神社から3分 |
| 立山山麓温泉 ホワイトベル | ¥6,800 | 4.53 456 reviews | 2.4 km | 北陸自動車道立山ICから車で30分 立山駅まで車で5分 |
| 立山黒部アルペンルート 千寿荘 | ¥7,500 | 4.58 172 reviews | 1.0 km | 富山地方鉄道立山線終点「立山駅」下車。2階南口へ 目の前。 北陸自動車道立山ＩＣ～「国立公園立山」の標識に従い約30分。 |
| グリーンビュー立山 | ¥7,750 | 4.32 260 reviews | 1.2 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅より徒歩にて約３分 |
| 立山館 | ¥8,250 | 4.40 70 reviews | 1.1 km | ＪＲ富山地方鉄道 立山駅１階西口より徒歩にて１分 |
| 立山連峰の宿 ホテル森の風立山 | ¥15,400 | 4.45 650 reviews | 1.0 km | 立山駅よりお車にて約７分（送迎有り） |
| 松井山荘 | — | — | 0.4 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅よりバスで１０分 ／ 粟巣野スキー場そば |
| 立山山麓温泉 クレヨンハウス | — | 5.00 126 reviews | 1.3 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅下車 送迎有り5分／北陸自動車道 立山ＩＣよりお車で30分 |
| 立山山麓温泉 びんてる めいけん | — | — | 1.5 km | 富山地方鉄道立山線立山駅／北陸自動車道「立山ＩＣ」より車で３０分 |
Show the other 1
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ロッジ 太郎 | — | — | 2.3 km | 富山地方鉄道 立山駅／北陸自動車道 立山ＩＣより車で３０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.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Toyama
- Shirakawa-go's Snow Falls at Around 0°C. That Is Why the Roofs Are 60 Degrees. Japan has thatched villages all over the country, and only one of them built roofs like praying hands. We measured the snow at four of them: Shirakawa-go gets twelve times Miyama's depth, and it arrives at the heaviest temperature snow can fall.
- The Deepest Snow You Can Sleep in an Old Japanese House Is Not Shirakawa-go We measured the snow at seven villages where you can stay in traditional architecture, and how far each is from a lift. Shirakawa-go is 15.6 km from a middling ski hill. Shiozawa is 2.2 km from the world's =67th snowiest.
- Which Japanese Prefecture Gets the Most Snow? Niigata's 48 ski areas average 554 cm a season — more than Toyama, more than Hokkaido, and more than the snowiest resort in any Alpine country.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52