【豪雪】大吹雪のシャルマン火打！極上ディープパウダーを喰らった日
By: UTASNOW · 2026-08-01
Charmant Hiuchi Snow Resort is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 366 and 998 m. Its mapped area is about 2.1 km across, with 11 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 9.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 690 cm of snowfall a season, 13th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (816 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (388 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 245 cm. Snowfall days average −2.0 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 166th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 40 km away. Below are links to 3 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
14℃
Max wind
6.3km/h
Elevation (est.)
366–998m
Across
2.1km
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
690 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
388 cm
A typical winter: 708 cm. The best: 816 cm.
World rank
18
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
13
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
233
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 633 m, 133 m below the national median.
Quality rank
166
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.0°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
29%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
37%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
16 km/h
Dryness 0.28
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.98
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARAI SNOW RESORT | 7.9 km | 663 cm | 24 |
| Seki Onsen Ski Area | 13 km | 689 cm | 19 |
| Kyukamura Myoko | 13 km | 445 cm | 117 |
| Akakura Onsen Ski Area | 14 km | 445 cm | 117 |
| Akakura Kanko Ski Resort | 14 km | 445 cm | 117 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 36% 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 88 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
201cmDec
245cmJan
156cmFeb
88cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 690 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 388 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 816 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.
388
816
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
11
Run length
9.4km
Lifts
3
Vertical
491m
Top 1,009 m · base 518 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.6 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.2°
Which way the slopes face
North 70%
East 27%
South 1%
West 2%
97% 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 4
Intermediate 6
Advanced 1
Lift types
- Chairlift3
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
Roads nearby国道8号 ↗From the resort: 13.8 kmOperated by: 北陸地方整備局 高田河川国道事務所Roads nearby国道18号 ↗From the resort: 19.3 kmOperated by: 関東地方整備局 長野国道事務所
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.
Myoko and Joetsu webcams & snow report — all 11 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.
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 48 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 柵口柵口鉱泉 | 4.1 km | 25℃ lukewarm | 7.2 neutral | — | — |
| 笹倉笹倉新湯 | 4.7 km | 48℃ hot | 7.9 mildly alkaline | — | — |
| 笹倉温泉笹倉新湯 | 4.7 km | 45℃ hot | — | — | 1941 |
| 柵口温泉 | 4.8 km | 25℃ lukewarm | 7.2 neutral | chloride | 1961 |
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 Myōkō妙高山 | Mountain | 12.5 km |
| Tsubame Onsen燕温泉 | Hot spring town | 12.7 km |
| Mount Amakazari雨飾山 | Mountain | 14.3 km |
| Jade Coastヒスイ海岸 (糸魚川市) | Nature | 17.9 km |
| Fossa Magna Museumフォッサマグナミュージアム | Museum | 18 km |
| Naena Falls苗名滝 | Nature | 18 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: 36.9982, 138.0694
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 笹倉温泉 龍雲荘 | ¥5,830 | 4.42 397 reviews | 4.7 km | ＪＲ北陸新幹線・えちごトキめき鉄道「糸魚川駅」／北陸道・糸魚川ＩＣ又は能生ＩＣより３５分、送迎あり（事前予約） |
| 海と山の宿 柵口温泉 対岳荘 | ¥6,500 | 4.00 6 reviews | 4.7 km | 能生駅・能生ＩＣより車で約１５分 |
| 柵口温泉 山城屋 | ¥6,500 | — | 4.7 km | ＪＲ 能生駅より路線バスで２０分、 北陸自動車道能生IC下車右折１２分 |
| 柵口温泉権現荘 | — | — | 4.1 km | 能生駅より車で約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.
2 Hotel 1 Guest house
Nearest: 4.6 km
Nearest first
- Guest House Sanraku Guest house 4.6 km
- 焼山温泉 Hotel 5.2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Charmant Hiuchi Snow Resort
- Japan's Snowiest Ski Resorts That Nobody Has Heard Of Not one of the thirty Japanese ski areas in the world's top fifty has an English Wikipedia page. Here is what is hiding behind that, and how to get to it.
- Seki Onsen in Myoko: How Much Snow, and What Is There 689 cm a season, 19th in the world. Only two ski areas in Europe get more and both are in Norway, one of which shuts all winter. Seki Onsen covers 1.17 km², and has two hotels within a kilometre.
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