OFFICIAL：びわ湖バレイ×岡田良菜2026ライディング
OfficialBy: 【OFFICIAL】びわ湖バレイ · 2026-02-15
Biwako Valley is a ski area in Shiga, Japan, on slopes between roughly 713 and 1,144 m. Its mapped area is about 1.4 km across, with 7 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 4.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 98 cm of snowfall a season, 378th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (146 cm), brought more than 12 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (12 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 38 cm. Snowfall days average −3.1 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 362nd of 397 in Japan.
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
13.3℃
Max wind
6.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
713–1144m
Across
1.4km
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
98 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
12 cm
A typical winter: 110 cm. The best: 146 cm.
World rank
2397
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
378
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
118
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,018 m, 252 m above the national median.
Quality rank
362
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.1°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
27%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
5%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
23 km/h
Dryness 0.37
Frequency 0.14
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.91
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kutsuki Snow Park | 13 km | 118 cm | 2117 |
| Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 27 km | 113 cm | 2196 |
| Ohana Resort | 40 km | 116 cm | 2148 |
| Akoyama Skijo Snowpal | 48 km | 142 cm | 1775 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 29% 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.
23cmDec
38cmJan
27cmFeb
11cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 98 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 12 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 146 cm (12.2 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.
12
146
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
7
Run length
4.8km
Lifts
8
Vertical
231m
Top 1,172 m · base 941 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch24°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 64%
East 21%
South 0%
West 15%
85% 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
Novice 1
Easy 1
Intermediate 4
Advanced 1
Lift types
- Chairlift7
- 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 mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: びわ湖バレイ スキー場Roads nearby国道161号 ↗From the resort: 3.7 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局 滋賀国道事務所
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
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 32.1 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 御所湯温泉(仮称) | 3.9 km | 25.1℃ lukewarm | 7.76 mildly alkaline | radioactive (radon) | 1986 |
| a spring in 志賀町 | 3.9 km | 14.4℃ cold | 6.29 neutral | radioactive (radon) | 1996 |
| a spring in 志賀町 | 3.9 km | 13.8℃ cold | 6.02 neutral | radioactive (radon) | 1997 |
| a spring in 志賀町 | 4 km | 32.1℃ lukewarm | 7.53 mildly alkaline | chloride, bicarbonate | 1990 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanzen-in Temple三千院 | Temple | 11.6 km |
| Shirahige Shrine白鬚神社 | Shrine | 12.9 km |
| Hiyoshi Taisha日吉大社 | Shrine | 15.7 km |
| Enryaku-ji Temple延暦寺 | Temple | 16.5 km |
| Mount Hiei比叡山 | Mountain | 17 km |
| Sakamoto Castle坂本城 | 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: 35.2135, 135.8898
Places to stay nearby
18 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ジェイホッパーズ琵琶湖ゲストハウス | ¥2,500 | 4.33 28 reviews | 6.3 km | 近江舞子駅より徒歩にて約１５分。京都南IC⇒京都東IC⇒西大津バイパス/国道１６１号線経由で約４５分 |
| ｉ－ｓａｍｅ Ｇｕｅｓｔ ｈｏｕｓｅ | ¥3,500 | 5.00 29 reviews | 3.5 km | 電車の方はＪＲ湖西線にて志賀駅下車、改札出て右出口(琵琶湖側)左へ徒歩で約３分。左に見えるオレンジ色の家です（新快速不可 |
| 民宿 舞子屋 | ¥3,500 | 4.06 181 reviews | 6.7 km | ＪＲ 近江舞子駅より送迎有り |
| 比良招福温泉 ホリデーアフタヌーン | ¥4,900 | 3.74 146 reviews | 6.1 km | JR近江舞子駅から送迎します/ 京都東ICよりバイパスで比良出口から5分/カーナビはTEL077-596-2206 |
| ザ グラン リゾート近江舞子 | ¥5,300 | 4.33 114 reviews | 6.5 km | 近江舞子駅より徒歩にて約１５分 （※カーナビをご利用の方はマップコードをご利用下さい。263 190 824*12 ） |
| 比良レークハウス | ¥6,600 | 4.38 102 reviews | 5.0 km | ＪＲ湖西線 比良駅より徒歩にて５分／湖西道路志賀ＩＣより１０分 |
| ペンション Ｂ．Ｂ．Ｄｙｌａｎ | ¥7,700 | 4.27 32 reviews | 7.0 km | ＪＲ 近江舞子駅より徒歩にて約３分 無料駐車場有り |
| ＫＩＮＯＴＯＭＩ 近江舞子／民泊 | ¥12,296 | — | 7.1 km | 近江舞子駅から徒歩で約１分 |
| ホテル琵琶レイクオーツカ | ¥12,650 | 4.57 205 reviews | 7.0 km | JR近江舞子駅より徒歩５分 京都東ＩC経由、志賀バイパス近江舞子ランプ5分 |
| アルヴィラ近江舞子 ＾ | ¥22,736 | — | 5.2 km | 比良駅から徒歩で約２５分 |
| ＥＮＩＮＡＲＵ／民泊 | ¥27,840 | — | 4.7 km | 比良駅から徒歩で3分 |
| すずめのおやど | — | — | 7.8 km | JR湖西線の堅田駅で江若交通バスの堅田葛川線に乗り、終点の「細川」バス停で下車。そこから進行方向に歩いて300mにあり。 |
Show the other 6
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ペンションレークサイド | — | — | 5.2 km | ＪＲ 比良駅から徒歩で5分 |
| 愛犬と泊まる湖畔の温泉リゾート びわ湖松の浦別邸 | — | — | 4.0 km | ＪＲ 志賀駅よりお車にて約５分（送迎有） |
| ヒトシズク | — | — | 3.8 km | ◯電車の場合：JR湖西線 志賀駅下車 びわ湖沿いを約800m ◯お車の場合：湖西道路志賀ICから3分 |
| 雄松館 | — | — | 6.8 km | JR近江舞子駅より徒歩にて１０分 |
| オーベルジュメソン | — | — | 5.5 km | ＪＲ湖西線 近江舞子駅から車で約５分（予約者送迎あり） |
| ＩＺＡ近江舞子 | — | — | 6.7 km | ＪＲ 近江舞子駅より徒歩約１分 |
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Stay nearby
11 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
10 Hotel 1 Guest house
Nearest: 6.3 km
Nearest first
- 琵琶レイクオーツカ Hotel 7 km
- 門前茶屋 Hotel 9.1 km
- 美山荘 Hotel 9.1 km
- Okamoto Ryokan Hotel 9.9 km
- 宿屋きよみ荘 Hotel 10 km
- Ryokan Yamatsune Hotel 10.3 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