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Hida Funayama Snow Resort Arkopia

ひだ舟山スノーリゾートアルコピアスキー場くるみ
Off season

Hida Funayama Snow Resort Arkopia is a ski area in Gifu, Japan, on slopes between roughly 847 and 1,278 m. Its mapped area is about 2.0 km across, with 10 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 6.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 150 cm of snowfall a season, 317th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (262 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (101 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 49 cm. Snowfall days average −2.7 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 331st 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
13.1℃
Max wind
6.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
847–1278m
Across
2.0km

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
150 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
101 cm
A typical winter: 136 cm. The best: 262 cm.
World rank
1665
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
317
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
119
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,011 m, 245 m above the national median.
Quality rank
331
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.7°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
23%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
7%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.34
Frequency 0.21
Freedom from rain 0.41
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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Mont Deus Hida-kuraiyama Snow Park4.2 km150 cm1665
Hida Takayama Municipal Ski Resort20 km354 cm277
Meiho Ski Resort22 km193 cm1217
Mia Ski Resort26 km250 cm734
Honokidaira Ski Area26 km354 cm277

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 27 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

39cm
Dec
49cm
Jan
34cm
Feb
27cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 150 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 101 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 262 cm (2.6 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.

262
101
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
6.4km
Lifts
4
Vertical
402m
Top 1,259 m · base 857 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.8°

Which way the slopes face

North 31%
East 64%
South 4%
West 1%

95% 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 4
Intermediate 2
Advanced 4

Lift types

  • Chairlift4

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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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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine飛騨一宮水無神社Shrine5.8 km
Garyū-zakura臥龍桜Nature6.3 km
Hida Folk Village飛騨民俗村Museum11.2 km
Takayama Jin'ya高山陣屋Historic site11.9 km
Hida Kokubun-ji Temple飛騨国分寺Temple12.3 km
Hikaru Museum光ミュージアムMuseum13.9 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

3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
お宿 西本館¥4,550—2.5 kmJR 久々野駅より徒歩7分/高山駅より車で20分
旅館 富士屋<岐阜県>——2.1 km久々野駅より徒歩にて10分、車にて2分
元屋旅館——2.4 kmJR高山本線 久々野駅から徒歩7分 国道41号線沿

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Stay nearby

1 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

1 Chalet

Nearest: 10.1 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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