Hachikita Kogen, in Hyogo, Japan, runs from 560 m at the base to 1,221 m at the top. The map shows 8 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 4.2 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 235 cm of snowfall a season, 212th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (351 cm), brought more than 6 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (51 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 80 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 2.7 km away measured 528 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 308 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −2.6 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 261st of 397 in Japan.
Below are links to 4 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikata Snow Park | 3.2 km | 235 cm | 823 |
| Sky Valley Ski Area | 4.2 km | 197 cm | 1174 |
| Ojiro Ski Resort | 4.4 km | 235 cm | 823 |
| Hyper Bowl Tohachi | 4.8 km | 200 cm | 1149 |
| Hachikogen Ski Resort | 5.2 km | 237 cm | 810 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 35% 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 28 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 235 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 51 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 351 cm (6.9 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
99% 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
- Chairlift6
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.
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Hyonosen and Hachikita webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 兎和野高原 weather station — 2.7 km from this ski area, 260 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 528 cm |
| 2023/24 | 303 cm |
| 2024/25 | 699 cm |
| 2025/26 | 582 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 308 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
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 29.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 小代温泉1号 | 2.8 km | 26℃ lukewarm | — | — | 1961 |
| 小代温泉2号 | 2.9 km | 29.5℃ lukewarm | — | — | — |
| a spring in 香美町(大笹) | 3.1 km | 27.3℃ lukewarm | — | — | 1973 |
| ハチ北温泉 | 3.1 km | 26.9℃ lukewarm | 8.98 alkaline | radioactive (radon) | 2002 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens但馬高原植物園 | Museum | 2.1 km |
| Ojiro小代区 | Old streets | 3 km |
| 長楽寺 (兵庫県香美町) | Temple | 7.9 km |
| Mount Myōken妙見山 (養父市・香美町) | Nature | 8.6 km |
| Mount Hyōno氷ノ山 | Mountain | 9.4 km |
| Yumura Onsen湯村温泉 (兵庫県) | Hot spring town | 14.3 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.
Places to stay nearby
10 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 宙の森ホテル 花郷里 | ¥3,850 | 4.43 38 reviews | 2.8 km | 八鹿駅より全但バス「秋岡」行に乗車（約1時間）、「小代大谷」バス停下車、徒歩で約10分 |
| 中佐屋旅館 | ¥4,730 | 3.67 32 reviews | 2.8 km | 山陰本線 八鹿駅からバスで１時間１０分／和田山ＩＣ→Ｒ９０→Ｒ４８２経由で６０分 |
| ハチ北高原 プチホテル Ａｏｉｔｏｒｉ | ¥7,000 | 3.67 14 reviews | 2.5 km | 八鹿駅からバスで３０分 |
| ＭＡＴＳＵＤＡＹＡ 松田屋 | ¥9,800 | 4.46 90 reviews | 3.4 km | JR山陰線 八鹿駅から路線バスで５０分/バス停より徒歩5分 日高神鍋高原ICより車で３０分 |
| 料理旅館 大平山荘 | ¥12,630 | 4.50 18 reviews | 3.2 km | 八鹿駅からバス約70分で小代地域局(バス停)・小代地域局から徒歩約20分、車で約4分／ 八鹿氷ノ山ICから車で約50分 |
| 貸切りサウナに貸切り宿！！モダン古民家リビングで薪ストーブを囲んでくつろぎのひととき！ ＾ | — | — | 1.8 km | 若桜駅から車で約４３分 |
| ロッヂ野間 | — | — | 2.7 km | ＪＲ山陰本線 八鹿駅よりお車にて４０分 |
| 旅館 民宿 松屋 | — | — | 3.1 km | 八鹿駅から全但バス（村岡行、秋岡行、湯村温泉行）乗車し約４０分、ハチ北口で下車 |
| ハチ北高原スキー場 ロッヂあさひ | — | — | 3.1 km | 八鹿駅よりバスにてハチ北口まで４０分 |
| 美方パレス | — | — | 3.2 km | ＪＲ山陰本線 八鹿駅より全但バス秋岡行にて７０分／国道Ｒ９号鳥取方面へ春来バイパス長板信号入り３キロ |
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Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 1.7 km
Nearest first
- 藤乃 Guest house 1.7 km
- Suminoya Guesthouse Guest house 2.2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Hachikita Kogen
- Is Western Japan Snowier Than It Looks? Our Model Against the Weather Stations Western Japan's ski areas look thin in our data — a median of 125 cm against a national 249 cm. Against 16 Japan Meteorological Agency stations, the model we use returns 44% of what the ground records there. The region is far snowier than our own numbers say.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52