Fujiwara Snow&Spa Resort is a ski area in Gunma, Japan, on slopes between roughly 849 and 966 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 11 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 291 cm of snowfall a season, 156th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (374 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (183 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 99 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 1.5 km away measured 828 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 307 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −3.6 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 113th of 397 in Japan.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minakami Kogen Ski Resort | 1.2 km | 291 cm | 514 |
| Hodaigi Ski Resort | 2.7 km | 291 cm | 514 |
| Tambara Ski Park | 7.8 km | 423 cm | 144 |
| Okutone | 8.0 km | 198 cm | 1164 |
| Kawaba Ski Resort | 9.3 km | 423 cm | 144 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 53% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 52 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 291 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 183 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 374 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.
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 24% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
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.
Minakami webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 藤原 weather station — 1.5 km from this ski area, 207 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 828 cm |
| 2023/24 | 686 cm |
| 2024/25 | 1072 cm |
| 2025/26 | 726 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 307 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
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 80 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 宝川第5号 | 2 km | 73℃ hot | 7.1 neutral | simple | — |
| 湯の小屋 | 2.8 km | 80℃ hot | 7.6 mildly 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naramata Dam奈良俣ダム | Landmark | 3.5 km |
| Yagisawa Dam矢木沢ダム | Nature | 6.7 km |
| Doai Station土合駅 | Landmark | 9.3 km |
| Tanigawadake Ropeway谷川岳ロープウェイ | Nature | 9.7 km |
| Mount Tanigawa谷川岳 | Mountain | 12.5 km |
| Oze尾瀬 | Nature | 18.7 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
25 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 貸切風呂と地産地消 樹林－ｋｉｒｉｎ－ | ¥3,500 | 4.44 23 reviews | 1.4 km | 上越線 水上駅から車で２０分／上越新幹線 上毛高原駅から車で４５分 |
| ペンション らいらっく | ¥6,500 | 3.50 10 reviews | 0.4 km | 水上駅よりバスで約50分、関越道水上ICより車で約50分 |
| 源泉掛流しの湯めぐりテーマパーク 龍洞 | ¥6,930 | 4.10 749 reviews | 2.8 km | ＪＲ：水上駅から湯の小屋温泉行きのバスに乗車して４０分/終点バス停（湯の小屋）下車・徒歩2分 |
| 湯の小屋温泉 照葉荘 | ¥7,700 | 4.73 82 reviews | 2.9 km | 上越線 水上駅から車で約３０分／上越新幹線 上毛高原駅 |
| 大沢荘＜群馬県＞ | ¥7,800 | 4.00 30 reviews | 0.3 km | 上越線水上駅よりバスにて４０分／関越自動車道水上ＩＣより湯の小屋方面へ２５分 |
| １１種類の貸切露天風呂 水上高原／奥利根温泉 ホテルサンバード | ¥8,800 | 3.99 786 reviews | 0.3 km | 車で関越自動車道・水上ＩＣから３０分・ＪＲで上越線 水上駅より 湯ノ小屋行きバスで藤原スキー場入口下車900M |
| ペンション パル＜群馬県＞ | ¥9,000 | 3.00 34 reviews | 1.6 km | 水上駅／関越高速 水上ICより車で２０分 |
| 温泉ロッヂ たかね | ¥9,800 | 4.30 37 reviews | 0.7 km | 関越道 水上ＩＣより３５分 |
| シャレー ラ・ネージュ＜群馬県＞ | ¥10,800 | 4.80 164 reviews | 2.4 km | 関越道水上Ｉ．Ｃよりお車で30分。ＪＲ上越線水上駅、もしくは、上越新幹線上毛高原駅よりバス。バス停まで送迎有。（要予約） |
| 湯の小屋温泉 民宿 やぐら | ¥11,500 | 5.00 19 reviews | 1.5 km | 上毛高原駅 水上駅／水上ＩＣから車で３０分 |
| 水上温泉郷 水上高原ホテル２００ | ¥11,550 | 4.13 2302 reviews | 0.7 km | 関越自動車道「水上ＩＣ」から19ｋｍ（30分）／上越新幹線「上毛高原駅」から送迎シャトルバス有(3日前までの要事前予約) |
| ａｎｉｍａｌ ｌｏｄｇｅ ＾ | ¥12,760 | — | 1.5 km | 湯檜曽駅より車で17分 |
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| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 宝川温泉汪泉閣 | ¥13,000 | 4.21 1107 reviews | 2.0 km | ＪＲ上越線 水上駅から宝川温泉行きバス乗車３５分 宝川温泉下車（終点）徒歩０分 |
| Ｅａｒｔｈｂｏａｔ Ｍｉｎａｋａｍｉ Ｆｕｊｉｗａｒａ | ¥17,467 | — | 0.3 km | 水上ICから国道291号線→県道63号線を藤原 湯ノ小屋方面に約30分 |
| Ｅａｒｔｈｂｏａｔ Ｍｉｎａｋａｍｉ Ｈｏｄａｉｇｉ | ¥17,467 | — | 1.9 km | ＪＲ上越線 水上駅から、バス・車で約３０分。関越自動車道 水上ＩＣから車で約３０分 |
| 藤左ヱ門の宿／民泊 | ¥20,672 | — | 2.6 km | 湯檜曽駅から車で約１７分 |
| 湯の小屋温泉 ペンション・オールド・ストリング | — | — | 0.3 km | 関越道・水上Ｉ．Ｃから約2.8キロ・上越新幹線上毛高原駅又は上越線水上駅からバス、藤原スキー場入り口下車 |
| 湯の小屋温泉 ペンション トップス | — | — | 0.5 km | 上越新幹線 上毛高原駅 よりバスにて５０分／上越線 水上駅よりバスにて３０分「藤原スキー場入口」下車 |
| 湯の小屋温泉 ロッヂ 雪割草 | — | — | 0.8 km | 車：関越道水上ICから19Kｍ約25分／電車：JR上越線水上駅、上越新幹線上毛高原駅より湯の小屋温泉行きバス |
| 並木山荘 | — | — | 1.5 km | 水上駅よりお車にて３０分 |
| ペンション アミューズ | — | — | 1.5 km | 上越新幹線 上毛高原駅／上越線 水上駅から車で２０分／関越自動車道 水上ＩＣより車で２５分 |
| 民宿 吉野屋 | — | — | 1.5 km | 水上インターより車で30分、水上駅よりバスで３０分です |
| ロッヂとんち | — | — | 1.6 km | 水上駅より車で２５分／上毛高原駅より車で５０分 |
| 湯の小屋温泉 清流の宿 たむら | — | — | 2.8 km | ＪＲ上越線・水上駅／上越新幹線・上毛高原駅／関越自動車道・水上ＩＣ→国道２９１号線→県道６３号 ３０分 |
| 群馬みなかみほうだいぎキャンプ場 ＾ | — | — | 3.0 km | 湯檜曽駅から車で約２４分 |
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Stay nearby
6 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 0.3 km
Nearest first
- やすらぎ荘 Guest house 0.3 km
- Hotel Sunbird Hotel 0.3 km
- Old String Guest house 0.4 km
- Tops pension Guest house 0.4 km
- ロッジたかね Guest house 0.5 km
- Takaragawa Onsen Osenkaku Hotel 2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Gunma
- Everywhere on Earth You Climb for Snow. Japan Is the One Place You Drive Toward the Sea. Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.
- 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.
- Why Is Hokkaido's Snow Colder? Latitude, Elevation and Rain Across 397 Japanese ski areas, elevation sets the temperature and latitude does almost nothing to it — inside Honshu, going north is worth nothing at all. What latitude buys instead is the absence of rain.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52