Daisen Masumizu Kogen Snow Park is a ski area in Tottori, Japan, on slopes between roughly 692 and 875 m. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 2 marked runs and 1 lift (about 1.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 160 cm of snowfall a season, 305th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (245 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (78 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 61 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 3.1 km away measured 677 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 193 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −2.5 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 329th 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daisen White Resort | 3.7 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
| OkuDaisen Ski resort | 4.7 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| Kagamiganaru Ski Area | 7.4 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort | 14 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
| Ibukinosato Ski Area | 25 km | 115 cm | 2167 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 31% 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 19 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 160 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 78 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 245 cm (3.1 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.
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.
Run map
The shape of the mountain
Which way the slopes face
Only 4% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Lift types
- Chairlift1
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
This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. The nearest live view is the road below.
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.
Daisen webcams & snow report — all 5 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 大山 weather station — 3.1 km from this ski area, 92 m above its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 677 cm |
| 2023/24 | 567 cm |
| 2024/25 | 773 cm |
| 2025/26 | 691 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 193 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
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first.
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a spring in 伯耆町大山ロイヤルホテル1号泉 | 4.3 km | — | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daisen大山 (鳥取県) | Mountain | 2 km |
| Daisen-ji Temple大山寺 (鳥取県大山町) | Temple | 2.8 km |
| Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography植田正治写真美術館 | Museum | 7.8 km |
| Mount Senjō (Tottori)船上山 | Mountain | 9.3 km |
| Ōgamiyama Shrine大神山神社 | Shrine | 11.5 km |
| Yonago Castle米子城 | Historic site | 18.6 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.
Places to stay nearby
19 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ＤＡＩＳＥＮ ＲＥＳＯＲＴ 沢田ベース ＾ | ¥4,400 | — | 2.9 km | 伯耆溝口駅から車で約１１分 |
| 地元食材が味わえる宿 川床屋 | ¥5,500 | 4.00 35 reviews | 3.0 km | ＪＲ 米子駅／「大山寺」行きバス下車にて徒歩５分 |
| 大山ビューハイツ 大山北壁目前の宿 | ¥5,500 | 4.50 113 reviews | 3.4 km | ＪＲ米子駅よりバスで５０分 大山バス停下車 |
| Ｔａｂｉｓｔ 雪花荘 | ¥5,800 | 4.43 53 reviews | 2.9 km | 山陰本線 米子駅よりバスで５０分・終点バス停より徒歩２分 |
| 緑荘 | ¥6,000 | 3.80 87 reviews | 2.9 km | ＪＲ 米子駅よりバスで５０分 |
| 大山ベースキャンプ | ¥7,700 | — | 2.5 km | ＪＲ米子駅から県道２４号線 （大山観光道路）経由で約２９分。バスは大山寺まで約５２分。 |
| 山の家シーハイル | ¥7,700 | 3.82 55 reviews | 3.3 km | 米子駅よりお車にて約30分／米子道溝口ＩＣより車で２０分／ＪＲ米子駅よりバスで５０分／米子空港より車で１時間 |
| 山の宿・中の原ぎんれい | ¥7,700 | 4.20 24 reviews | 3.3 km | ＪＲ 米子駅からバスで５０分 |
| ホテル大山 しろがね | ¥8,690 | 4.60 345 reviews | 3.0 km | ＪＲ米子駅／米子自動車道溝口ＩＣ又は米子ＩＣより車で２０分 |
| 大山ユートピア | ¥9,350 | 4.43 26 reviews | 3.1 km | ＪＲ山陰本線米子駅下車／米子自動車道米子ＩＣ下車 |
| 弥山荘（みせん荘） | ¥11,000 | 4.07 128 reviews | 2.8 km | 米子ＩＣ、溝口ＩＣより２０分／米子駅からバスで５０分 |
| ｓｃｅｎｅ ＾ | ¥13,534 | — | 2.8 km | 伯耆溝口駅から車で19分 |
Show the other 7
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 大山参道ホテル頂 | ¥16,500 | 4.50 10 reviews | 2.8 km | 米子空港よりお車にて約５０分／米子ＩＣ・大山ＩＣよりお車にて約２０分／米子駅より路線バスにて約６０分 |
| 山楽荘 ＜鳥取県＞ | ¥18,600 | 4.67 24 reviews | 2.9 km | 米子駅よりバスにて５０分 |
| オーベルジュ 天空 | ¥28,600 | 4.50 45 reviews | 0.7 km | 米子駅よりお車にて３０分。 |
| ＨＯＴＥＬ＆ＲＥＳＯＲＴ 狗賓 | ¥36,300 | 4.69 43 reviews | 0.5 km | 米子道「溝口IC」から車で10分 |
| 大山寺 やまびこ荘 | — | — | 2.4 km | 大山口駅／米子自動車道・溝口ＩＣよりお車で１５分／米子ＩＣよりお車で２０分／米子駅よりバスにて５０分 |
| Ｆｏｒｅｓｔ Ｈｏｕｓｅ ＤＡＩＳＥＮ（フォレストハウスだいせん） | — | — | 3.1 km | 米子駅より路線バス 観光道路経由大山寺行 約５０分 米子空港より車で約６０分 |
| 吉野旅館＜鳥取県＞ | — | — | 3.1 km | 山陰本線「大山口駅」下車 / 「米子駅」よりバスで５０分 / 中国道 米子ICまたは溝口ICより２０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: 9.1 km
Nearest first
- ぴーかんぱりぱり Motel 9.1 km
- シャトー尾高 Hotel 11 km
- pi-kan pi-puru Motel 11.1 km
- ペーパーラブ Motel 11.8 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Tottori
- How Accurate Is ERA5 Snowfall in Japan? Against 63 Weather Stations, It Reports About Half We compared ERA5 against 63 Japan Meteorological Agency stations near ski areas. The model returns 56% of what the ground measures — and the higher the station, the worse it gets. At 700 m and above it returns 39%.
- 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