Family Snow Park Bandai X2 is a ski area in Fukushima, Japan, on slopes between roughly 623 and 857 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 6 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 2.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 258 cm of snowfall a season, 179th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (343 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (139 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 88 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 4.7 km away measured 316 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 268 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −3.0 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 186th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inawashiro Snow Paradise | 2.4 km | 258 cm | 673 |
| グランドサンピア猪苗代リゾートスキー場 | 4.9 km | 325 cm | 383 |
| Urabandai Ski Resort | 5.5 km | 347 cm | 289 |
| Listel Ski Fantasia | 6.4 km | 246 cm | 761 |
| Nekoma Mountain | 8.2 km | 347 cm | 289 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 55% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 48 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 258 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 139 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 343 cm (2.5 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
89% 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
Lift types
- Chairlift2
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.
Bandai and Inawashiro webcams & snow report — all 8 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 猪苗代 weather station — 4.7 km from this ski area, 221 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 316 cm |
| 2023/24 | 188 cm |
| 2024/25 | 503 cm |
| 2025/26 | 258 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 268 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 47.3 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 見祢鉱泉 | 2 km | 21.4℃ cold | 7 neutral | simple | — |
| 表磐梯猪苗代表磐梯猪苗代温泉第2 | 4.2 km | 47.3℃ hot | 6.5 neutral | — | — |
| 土湯沢土湯沢山小屋 | 4.3 km | 43℃ hot | 6.8 neutral | — | — |
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 Bandai磐梯山 | Mountain | 3.7 km |
| Morohashi Museum of Modern Art諸橋近代美術館 | Museum | 6.8 km |
| Goshiki-numa五色沼 (北塩原村) | Nature | 7.1 km |
| Lake Hibara桧原湖 | Nature | 10.4 km |
| Lake Inawashiro猪苗代湖 | Nature | 12.4 km |
| Aizuwakamatsu Castle若松城 | Historic site | 20 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
15 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 横磐梯リロード | ¥3,200 | 4.17 14 reviews | 1.2 km | 磐越西線 猪苗代駅よりお車で約20分 |
| レイクビュー猪苗代荘 | ¥3,850 | 4.47 46 reviews | 3.3 km | 猪苗代駅よりお車にて約１５分 |
| スポーツパル | ¥5,500 | 2.50 67 reviews | 3.2 km | 磐越西線 猪苗代駅下車 タクシー１０分 |
| ペンションＲＢ | ¥5,600 | 4.14 109 reviews | 3.4 km | 猪苗代駅より車で8分、猪苗代ICより車で11分 |
| 磐梯はやま温泉 猪苗代観光ホテル | ¥6,050 | 3.98 505 reviews | 3.1 km | 磐越道猪苗代インターより、猪苗代スキー場を目指して１５分。 |
| しゃくなげ平貸別荘（第１別荘地）スタック株式会社 ＾ | ¥6,061 | — | 1.1 km | 猪苗代駅から車で約１１分 |
| あるぱいんロッジ | ¥7,100 | 4.67 25 reviews | 3.2 km | 磐越西線 猪苗代駅／磐越自動車道 猪苗代磐梯高原ＩＣ |
| 磐梯猪苗代はやま温泉 ヴィラ イナワシロ | ¥7,150 | 3.93 238 reviews | 2.9 km | ＪＲ磐越西線「猪苗代駅」から車で10分（無料送迎有り、要問合せ）/i猪苗代磐梯高原インターから車で15分 |
| フォレストリゾート 猪苗代 四季の里 | ¥7,350 | 4.15 422 reviews | 2.5 km | 猪苗代駅より車で７分＜時間（１０時～１６時）に応じ電話連絡にて送迎可＞ |
| 裏磐梯 ペンション見鳥（みどり） | ¥9,500 | 4.50 33 reviews | 1.2 km | ＪＲ磐越西線「猪苗代駅」／磐越自動車道「猪苗代・磐梯高原ＩＣ」下車～裏磐梯方面へ１０Ｋｍ |
| しゃくなげ平貸別荘（第１別荘地） | ¥12,800 | — | 1.1 km | JR磐越西線猪苗代駅よりお車で約10分、磐越自動車道猪苗代磐梯高原ＩＣより約１０分 |
| メープルホスト | — | — | 1.6 km | ＪＲ 猪苗代駅からバスで１０分／磐越道猪苗代磐梯 高原ＩＣより１０分 |
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| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 磐梯猪苗代 やまき屋 | — | — | 3.1 km | 磐梯高原猪苗代ICより１０分 |
| 囲炉裏と温泉露天風呂 コッヘル磐梯 | — | — | 3.3 km | ＪＲ磐越西線 猪苗代駅より車にて５分／磐越自動車道 猪苗代磐梯高原ＩＣより車にて８分 |
| ペンションKOGETSU | — | — | 3.4 km | ＪＲ磐越西線 猪苗代駅より車で７分／磐越自動車道 猪苗代磐梯高原ＩＣより１０分 |
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More places to look
Guides covering Fukushima
- Japan Is Sold on Powder. Measured, It Is the Easiest Big Ski Country to Learn In. Half of Japan's pisted kilometres are graded easy or novice — against 24% in the United States and 28% in Canada. And 255 of Japan's 397 ski areas have a natural hot-spring source within 5 km. Here are the numbers, the caveat about grading, and the resorts where a first-timer gets the most of both.
- Tengendai Kogen: Some of Japan's Best Snow Quality, and No Live Camera Snow falls at −7.8 °C, rain arrives on 12% of winter days, and the top station is at 1,860 m. Eight places to stay, and no live camera of its own.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52