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By: こがもちゅーぶ。 · 2026-01-14
Fu's snow area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 234 and 489 m. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 10 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 3.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 207 cm of snowfall a season, 252nd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (148 cm), reached 71% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 63 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 5.1 km away measured 507 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 201 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −4.4 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 160th 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.
Temperature
12℃
Max wind
22.8km/h
Elevation (est.)
234–489m
Across
1.2km
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
207 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
148 cm
A typical winter: 211 cm. The best: 272 cm.
World rank
1081
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
252
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
303
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 326 m, 440 m below the national median.
Quality rank
160
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-4.4°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
6%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
9%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17 km/h
Dryness 0.46
Frequency 0.27
Freedom from rain 0.85
Calm when snowing 0.97
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sapporo Moiwayama | 8.3 km | 184 cm | 1292 |
| Sapporo Bankei Ski Area | 8.6 km | 194 cm | 1201 |
| Dynasty Ski Resort | 14 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
| Sapporo Teine | 16 km | 260 cm | 667 |
| Nakayama-toge Ski Resort | 19 km | 264 cm | 655 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 79% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 50 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
46cmDec
63cmJan
48cmFeb
50cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 207 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 148 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 272 cm (1.8 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.
148
272
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
10
Run length
3.9km
Lifts
3
Vertical
293m
Top 544 m · base 251 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.3 km
Steepest pitch29°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.5°
Which way the slopes face
North 85%
East 6%
South 1%
West 8%
91% 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 3
Intermediate 5
Advanced 2
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
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.
Sapporo webcams & snow report — all 10 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.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 小金湯 weather station — 5.1 km from this ski area, 131 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 507 cm |
| 2023/24 | 493 cm |
| 2024/25 | 560 cm |
| 2025/26 | 468 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 201 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 48 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 藤野ふじの公園井 | 1.2 km | 14.5℃ cold | 8.3 mildly alkaline | — | — |
| 豊滝豊滝温泉井 | 4.9 km | 48℃ hot | 8.5 alkaline | — | — |
| 黄金湯黄金湯温泉 | 5 km | 30.3℃ lukewarm | 8.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Makomanai Ice Arena真駒内屋内競技場 | Park | 7.9 km |
| Mount Moiwa藻岩山 (札幌市) | Mountain | 8.8 km |
| Hokkaidō Jingū北海道神宮 | Shrine | 11.8 km |
| Nakajima Park中島公園 | Park | 12.2 km |
| Sapporo Dome札幌ドーム | Leisure | 13 km |
| Susukinoすすきの | Old streets | 13.2 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: 42.9503, 141.2773
Places to stay nearby
4 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ｒ２３０ゲストハウス | ¥2,800 | — | 1.2 km | 地下鉄真駒内駅よりバスで約30分 |
| 札幌金湯亭ホテル＆リゾート Ａｓａｈｉ ｇｒｏｕｐ | ¥2,875 | 3.80 41 reviews | 1.9 km | 真駒内駅よりお車にて約２０分 |
| Ｂ＆Ｂ ＨＯＴＴＡ | — | — | 1.4 km | 札幌駅から定鉄バスで約６０分くらいです |
| ＭＡＤＯＲＯＭＩ藤野／民泊 | — | — | 1.6 km | 真駒内駅から車で約１５分 |
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Stay nearby
27 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
25 Hotel 2 Guest house
Nearest: 1.2 km
Nearest first
- まつの湯 Hotel 5 km
- 湯元 小金湯 Hotel 5.1 km
- 芸森スタジオ&Cloud Lodge Hotel 5.2 km
- GardensResort ときわ Hotel 5.7 km
- Jouzankei Tsuruga Resort Spa Mori no Uta Hotel 9 km
- Jozankei Hot Spring Hotel Shiraito Hotel 9.1 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Hokkaido
- A Historic El Niño Is Forecast. Here Is What the Last Big One Did to Japan's Snow. NOAA gives a very strong El Niño better than a 90% chance this winter. We measured every Japanese ski area across the last 12 winters: El Niño winters ran 88% of normal, and the strongest of the twelve left Japan at 63%. But Hakuba held 92% of its average that winter while Niseko fell to 57%.
- 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