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Fukui Izumi Ski Resort

福井和泉スキー場

Off season Official site Lift tickets (official)

Fukui Izumi Ski Resort is a ski area in Fukui, Japan, on slopes between roughly 496 and 883 m. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 6 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 4.1 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 315 cm of snowfall a season, 143rd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (472 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (171 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 112 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 3.6 km away measured 561 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 339 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −2.5 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 235th of 397 in Japan.

The nearest city of any size is Fukui, about 45 km away. 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

14.9℃

Max wind

6.2km/h

Elevation (est.)

496–883m

Across

1.6km

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

315 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

171 cm

A typical winter: 308 cm. The best: 472 cm.

World rank

427

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

143

of 397 in Japan

Elevation rank

210

Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 713 m, 53 m below the national median.

Quality rank

235

of 397 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-2.5°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

28%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

21%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

17 km/h

Dryness 0.32

Frequency 0.61

Freedom from rain 0.35

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
Kuzuryu Ski Resort	5.3 km	300 cm	482
WINGHILLS Shiratori Resort	12 km	266 cm	637
Dynaland	17 km	322 cm	393
Takasu Snow Park	17 km	322 cm	393
Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort	22 km	220 cm	953

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 32% 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 36 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

98cm

Dec

112cm

Jan

69cm

Feb

36cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 315 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 171 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 472 cm (2.8 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.

171

472

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

Run length

4.1km

Lifts

Vertical

290m

Top 895 m · base 605 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km

Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs11.1°

Which way the slopes face

North 27%

East 71%

South 0%

West 2%

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

Novice 1

Easy 2

Intermediate 3

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.

Roads nearby国道158号 ↗From the resort: 14 kmOperated by: 中部地方整備局岐阜国道事務所

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 九頭竜 weather station — 3.6 km from this ski area, 253 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average	561 cm
2023/24	496 cm
2024/25	764 cm
2025/26	424 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 339 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

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
Kuzuryu Dam九頭竜ダム	Nature	5.3 km
Itoshiro Cedar石徹白の大杉	Nature	12.7 km
Mount Dainichi大日ヶ岳	Mountain	15.4 km
Heisenji Hakusan Shrine平泉寺白山神社	Shrine	17.6 km
Ōno Castle大野城 (越前国)	Historic site	19.1 km
Echizen Daibutsu越前大仏	Temple	19.8 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.