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By: YOHちゃんねる【パウダー日和】 · 2026-01-07
Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 998 and 1,544 m. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 1 marked run and 2 lifts (about 1.1 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 396 cm of snowfall a season, 79th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (293 cm), reached 74% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (125 and 95 cm on average). Snowfall days are cold, averaging −11.0 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 1st of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Asahikawa, about 45 km away. Below are links to 3 official live cameras.
Base depth
0cm
Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
4.5℃
Max wind
26.8km/h
Elevation (est.)
998–1544m
Across
1.2km
Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.
Score breakdown
Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 0/5
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | 1.3 / 7.2 | 26.8 |
| 🌦️ 9 Oct | 0 | 2.6 / 9.8 | 13.4 |
| ☁️ 10 Oct | 0 | 5.8 / 14.2 | 7.4 |
| ☁️ 11 Oct | 0 | 5.2 / 13.5 | 9.2 |
| ☁️ 12 Oct | 0 | 4.1 / 13.3 | 6.4 |
| ☁️ 13 Oct | 0 | 2.8 / 11.7 | 10 |
| ❄️ 14 Oct | 2.5 | -1.6 / 9.8 | 21.8 |
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
1
Run length
1.1km
Lifts
2
Vertical
214m
Top 1,523 m · base 1,309 m
Run map
Other Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.1 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10.7°
Which way the slopes face
North 19%
East 79%
South 2%
West 0%
98% 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
Other 1
Lift types
- Cable car1
- 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
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.
Daisetsuzan webcams & snow report — all 2 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.
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
396 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
293 cm
A typical winter: 379 cm. The best: 574 cm.
World rank
178
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
79
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
48
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,407 m, 641 m above the national median.
Quality rank
1
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-11.0°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
3%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
20%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
16 km/h
Dryness 0.93
Frequency 0.58
Freedom from rain 0.93
Calm when snowing 0.99
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asahidake | 11 km | 388 cm | 194 |
| Canmore Ski Resort | 32 km | 215 cm | 995 |
| Touma Ski Area | 35 km | 232 cm | 853 |
| Pippu Ski Slopes | 43 km | 220 cm | 953 |
| Nukabira Gensenkyo Ski Area | 44 km | 174 cm | 1378 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 96% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 91 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
125cmDec
95cmJan
86cmFeb
91cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 396 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 293 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 574 cm (2.0 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.
293
574
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.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
54 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 95.6 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 白水川左支流 | 2.1 km | 78.5℃ hot | 7.4 neutral | — | 1985 |
| 白水川白水沢B | 2.1 km | 65.3℃ hot | 6.7 neutral | — | 1968 |
| 白水川白水沢A | 2.1 km | 54.5℃ hot | 2.9 acidic | — | 1968 |
| 白水川白水川-7 | 2.1 km | 75.2℃ hot | 6.7 neutral | — | 1988 |
| 白水川白水川-6 | 2.1 km | 16.9℃ cold | 2.7 acidic | — | 1988 |
| 白水川 | 2.1 km | 95.6℃ hot | 7 neutral | — | 1968 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ropeway大雪山層雲峡・黒岳ロープウェイ | Nature | 1.5 km |
| Sounkyo Onsen層雲峡温泉 | Hot spring town | 2.7 km |
| Sounkyo層雲峡 | Nature | 3.8 km |
| Asahi-dake旭岳 | Mountain | 7.9 km |
| Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group大雪山 | Mountain | 7.9 km |
| Tenninkyō Onsen天人峡温泉 | Hot spring town | 15.5 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: 43.7064, 142.9327
Places to stay nearby
12 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 層雲峡 リゾートペンション 山の上 | ¥3,990 | 3.29 28 reviews | 2.5 km | ＪＲ旭川駅からバス1時間40分、層雲峡駅下車。車：旭川紋別自動車道で札幌から上川層雲峡ＩＣ約2時間半。ICからは約30分 |
| 層雲峡温泉 湯元 銀泉閣（ＢＢＨホテルグループ） | ¥4,350 | 4.12 586 reviews | 2.4 km | ＪＲ函館本線旭川駅で乗換、石北本線上川駅下車バスで３０分 |
| 家族混浴できる大露天風呂の宿 層雲峡観光ホテル | ¥5,000 | 3.66 1027 reviews | 2.6 km | 【お車】紋別自動車道上川・層雲峡ICより車で25分 ※EV充電スタンドあり（ホテル1階屋外駐車場内） |
| 層雲峡温泉 ホテル雲井 | ¥5,011 | 4.67 20 reviews | 2.4 km | 上川駅より道北バス「層雲峡」行きにて終点「層雲峡」下車、徒歩にて約３分 |
| 層雲峡ホステル | ¥5,100 | 4.44 32 reviews | 2.6 km | JR旭川駅よりバスで約2時間 JR上川駅よりお車にて約25分 |
| 層雲峡温泉 層雲峡マウントビューホテル | ¥6,435 | 3.96 458 reviews | 2.6 km | ＪＲ上川駅よりタクシーで３０分／旭川空港より車で９０分 |
| 層雲峡温泉 温泉ペンション銀河 | ¥6,600 | 4.33 106 reviews | 2.5 km | 上川駅から層雲峡温泉行きバス３０分 |
| ホテル大雪 ＯＮＳＥＮ＆ＣＡＮＹＯＮ ＲＥＳＯＲＴ | ¥10,000 | 4.40 1521 reviews | 2.6 km | 車のお越しで、札幌からは約１８０分。旭川空港からは約１００分。旭山動物園からは８０分。 |
| 層雲峡温泉 朝陽リゾートホテル | ¥11,550 | 4.05 2310 reviews | 2.7 km | JR上川駅下車 道北バスで約３０分/札幌・旭川発の送迎バス運行（2026/3/31迄） |
| 層雲峡 朝陽亭 | ¥12,980 | 3.89 1827 reviews | 2.6 km | 上川層雲峡ICよりR39号線を北見方面に車で25分/JR上川駅よりバスで30分/札幌旭川送迎バス運行（3/31迄・要予約 |
| 層雲閣 | ¥13,270 | 4.22 1341 reviews | 2.8 km | ※旭山動物園より車で９０分※ＪＲ石北本線 上川駅よりローカルバスで３５分※上川層雲峡ICより車で２０分 |
| ペンション ユーカラ | — | — | 2.3 km | ＪＲ上川駅〜バスで約２５分終点層雲峡下車徒歩２分／道央道上川層雲峡ＩＣを下りてＲ３９号線で約3０分 |
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Stay nearby
12 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
9 Hotel 2 Guest house 1 Hostel
Nearest: 2.4 km
Nearest first
- Sounkyo Onsen Yumoto Ginsenkaku Hotel 2.4 km
- Guesthouse Todate Guest house 2.5 km
- Resort Pension Yamanoue Guest house 2.5 km
- Onsen Pension Ginga Hotel 2.5 km
- Sounkyo kankou hotel Hotel 2.6 km
- Mount View Hotel Hotel 2.6 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Daisetsuzan Sounkyo Kurodake Ski Area
- What's New at Japan's Ski Resorts for 2026/27, and How Much Snow Each Place Actually Gets Six changes for 2026/27, each checked against the operator's own announcement. A new gondola at Niseko Village, a six-seat chair at Tsugaike, Madarao joining the Ikon Pass, Asia's first members-only ski area at Togari, new cabins on the Kurodake ropeway, and the first nonstop from the US mainland to Sapporo.
- How Close to Rain Does the Snow Fall? Japan, the Alps and North America Compared We measured how close to freezing the snow already falls at 240 randomly drawn resorts in the Alps and North America, and at all 397 in Japan. Japan is not one place: Honshu is among the most exposed, Hokkaido among the least.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52