26-27シーズン券
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Cupid Valley Ski Area is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 429 and 896 m. Its mapped area is about 2.6 km across, with 3 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 2.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 553 cm of snowfall a season, 35th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (693 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (301 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 197 cm. Snowfall days average −2.7 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 149th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 52 km away. 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
14.2℃
Max wind
8.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
429–896m
Across
2.6km
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
553 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
301 cm
A typical winter: 561 cm. The best: 693 cm.
World rank
61
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
35
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
228
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 644 m, 122 m below the national median.
Quality rank
149
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.7°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
26%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
33%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
16 km/h
Dryness 0.34
Frequency 0.93
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sakae Club Ski Area | 7.9 km | 553 cm | 61 |
| Nozawa Onsen | 14 km | 450 cm | 108 |
| Togari Onsen Ski Resort | 15 km | 450 cm | 108 |
| New Greenpia Tsunan | 20 km | 618 cm | 36 |
| Nakasato Kiyotsu | 22 km | 618 cm | 36 |
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 70 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
157cmDec
197cmJan
130cmFeb
70cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 553 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 301 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 693 cm (2.3 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.
301
693
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
3
Run length
2.9km
Lifts
3
Vertical
290m
Top 721 m · base 431 m
Run map
EasyIntermediate Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.8 km
Steepest pitch17°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.7°
Which way the slopes face
North 87%
East 0%
South 0%
West 13%
87% 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 2
Intermediate 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
On the mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: キューピットバレイスキー場Roads nearby国道253号 ↗From the resort: 18 kmOperated by: 新潟県 新潟県土木部
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Matsunoyama Onsen松之山温泉 | Hot spring town | 10.2 km |
| Sakae Village History and Culture Museum栄村歴史文化館 | Museum | 11.3 km |
| Bijinbayashi美人林 | Nature | 12.8 km |
| Ryūgakubo竜ヶ窪 | Nature | 14.1 km |
| Nozawa Onsen野沢温泉 | Hot spring town | 14.2 km |
| Matsudai Nohbutaiまつだい「農舞台」 | Museum | 14.6 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: 37.0449, 138.4916
Places to stay nearby
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| キューピットバレイ | ¥7,000 | — | 1.3 km | ほくほく線虫川大杉駅から車で約２０分 |
| ペンション ヴィラ・アルピーヌ | — | — | 1.5 km | ほくほく線 虫川大杉駅より車で２０分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
1 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 Niigata
- Which Ski Resort Gets the Most Snow in the World? We measured snowfall at all 3,069 ski areas on earth the same way. The top two both shut in winter because they get too much snow: a Norwegian glacier at 783 cm that opens in May, and Okutadami Maruyama in Niigata at 765 cm. 46 of the top 100 are Japanese.
- How Japan's Early-Bird Lift Tickets Work: At Hakuba Happo-One, Eight of the Nine Need a Japanese ID Card Hakuba Happo-One opened early-bird sales at 10:00 on 1 October. A day costs ¥6,400 against ¥9,800 at the window, 35% off. But every ticket on the list except one needs a My Number Card and a Japanese phone app. A visitor from abroad can buy exactly one of them, at 15% off.
- Japan Lift Ticket Prices for 2026/27: What a Day Costs at Twelve Big Resorts, and the Weeks It Costs Half We checked the 2026/27 adult day ticket on each resort's own site. At the window it runs from ¥7,000 at Akakura Kanko to ¥16,700 at Rusutsu. Buying online saves up to ¥3,500, and the first and last weeks of the season cost up to half. For those cheap spring weeks, we add which way each resort's slopes face.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52