Classe Snow Park
This snow park has been closed since the 2020/21 season.
Source: kitahiroshima.classe-hotel.com (checked 2026-09-15)
Classe Snow Park is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 49 and 80 m. Its mapped area is about 0.3 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 142 cm of snowfall a season, 331st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (214 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (98 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 41 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 5.7 km away measured 364 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 159 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −3.5 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 266th of 397 in Japan.
Below is a link to its official live camera.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynasty Ski Resort | 7.8 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
| Eniwa City Ski Area | 14 km | 148 cm | 1686 |
| Sapporo Moiwayama | 17 km | 184 cm | 1292 |
| Fu's snow area | 21 km | 207 cm | 1081 |
| Sapporo Bankei Ski Area | 21 km | 194 cm | 1201 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 78% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 32 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 142 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 98 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 214 cm (2.2 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.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Live Cameras
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.
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.
Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 恵庭島松 weather station — 5.7 km from this ski area, 34 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 364 cm |
| 2023/24 | 398 cm |
| 2024/25 | 318 cm |
| 2025/26 | 375 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 159 cm.
A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 41 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 竹山竹山温泉2号 | 2.1 km | 31.6℃ lukewarm | 9 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 輪厚輪厚温泉 | 4.2 km | 40℃ warm | 9.1 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 大曲スリーライト泉源 | 4.5 km | 41℃ warm | 9 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Es Con Field HokkaidoエスコンフィールドHOKKAIDO | Leisure | 2.7 km |
| Historical Village of Hokkaido北海道開拓の村 | Museum | 9 km |
| Sapporo Dome札幌ドーム | Leisure | 10.9 km |
| Makomanai Ice Arena真駒内屋内競技場 | Park | 15.1 km |
| Nakajima Park中島公園 | Park | 16.3 km |
| Susukinoすすきの | Old streets | 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
7 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| エスコンフィールドＨＯＫＫＡＩＤＯホテル 北広島駅前 | ¥3,510 | 4.19 465 reviews | 2.8 km | 北広島駅西口直結、屋外へ出ることなく改札から徒歩約1分。お車でお越しの際は敷地内の有料駐車場をご利用ください。 |
| ｔｏｗｅｒ ｅｌｅｖｅｎ ｈｏｔｅｌ | ¥7,000 | 4.56 39 reviews | 2.8 km | FVillage運行のシャトルバス（有料）にて北広島駅から5分。 |
| 札幌北広島クラッセホテル | ¥7,420 | 4.10 1126 reviews | 0.3 km | ＪＲ北広島駅より車で８分／シャトルバス運行有り。（ダイヤ要問合せ） |
| ＢＡＬＬＰＡＲＫ ＴＡＫＩＢＩ ＴＥＲＲＡＣＥ ＡＬＬＰＡＲ | ¥15,300 | 4.71 20 reviews | 2.6 km | 北広島駅より徒歩約20分、シャトルバス約5分 |
| ＶＩＬＬＡ ＢＲＡＭＡＲＥ | ¥20,070 | — | 2.9 km | JR北広島駅よりシャトルバスで5分 |
| ぶどう畑のＢＢＱ＆グランピング ＾ | — | — | 2.7 km | 北広島駅から車で約１１分 |
| ゴルフ・ヴィラ北広島輪厚 Ａ／民泊 | — | — | 3.0 km | 北広島駅から車で16分 |
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Stay nearby
4 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 0.2 km
Nearest first
- 札幌 北広島クラッセホテル Hotel 0.2 km
- Shinsapporo ARC CITY HOTEL Hotel 8.8 km
- Hotel emisia SAPPORO Hotel 9 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Hokkaido
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- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- Australia Just Had Its Worst Season in Twenty Years. Here Is What Japan's 12-Winter Record Says About Booking It Instead. Snow depth at Spencers Creek peaked at 94.5 cm, the third lowest since 1954, and resorts closed in August. Our own measure — snowfall, not depth — puts Australia at 50% of its 12-year average. The gap between those two numbers is the story: it was the warmth, not only the lack of snow. New Zealand, meanwhile, finished at 108% of normal.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52