2022年3月6日 20cm！春のドカ新雪
By: kawaii飛騨かわいスキー場 · 2022-03-05
Hida Kawai Ski Resort is a ski area in Gifu, Japan, on slopes between roughly 863 and 1,201 m. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 4 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 3.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 345 cm of snowfall a season, 109th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (601 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (233 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 116 cm. Snowfall days average −3.6 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 150th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Kanazawa, about 53 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
12.7℃
Max wind
5.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
863–1201m
Across
1.5km
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
345 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
233 cm
A typical winter: 311 cm. The best: 601 cm.
World rank
292
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
109
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
142
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 936 m, 170 m above the national median.
Quality rank
150
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
22%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
22%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
14 km/h
Dryness 0.40
Frequency 0.63
Freedom from rain 0.43
Calm when snowing 1.00
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hida Nagareha Resort | 17 km | 258 cm | 673 |
| Mont Deus Hida-kuraiyama Snow Park | 23 km | 150 cm | 1665 |
| Hida Funayama Snow Resort Arkopia | 28 km | 150 cm | 1665 |
| Hirugano Kogen Ski Resort | 29 km | 220 cm | 953 |
| Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area | 31 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 41% 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 47 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
100cmDec
116cmJan
82cmFeb
47cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 345 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 233 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 601 cm (2.6 times as much).
601
233
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
4
Run length
3.3km
Lifts
4
Vertical
361m
Top 1,213 m · base 852 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.9 km
Steepest pitch31°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.6°
Which way the slopes face
North 72%
East 14%
South 0%
West 14%
86% 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 1
Intermediate 2
Advanced 1
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Okumino webcams & snow report — all 15 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.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amō Pass天生峠 | Mountain | 10.6 km |
| Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama白川郷・五箇山の合掌造り集落 | Old streets | 15.6 km |
| Shirakawa-gō白川郷 | Old streets | 15.7 km |
| Hikaru Museum光ミュージアム | Museum | 16.5 km |
| Miboro Dam御母衣ダム | Landmark | 18.4 km |
| Takayama Jin'ya高山陣屋 | Historic site | 19.5 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: 36.2350, 137.0777
Places to stay nearby
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| やまびこ館 | — | 4.00 25 reviews | 2.0 km | JR角川駅よりお車にて約20分※送迎あり要予約 ／ 東海北陸自動車道飛騨清見ICから約20分 |
| 民泊ＴＯＭＯ／民泊 | — | — | 2.8 km | 角川駅よりお車にて約２０分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Gifu
- When Is There Snow at Japan's Hot Spring Towns? If you want to sit in an outdoor bath with snow on the ground, the question is when, not just where. We measured the snow depth at 14 Japanese hot spring towns across three winters — arrival, departure, and how many days it is actually deep.
- Ski and Soak in Japan: Which Ski Areas Have a Hot Spring Source Next Door, and How Hot the Water Is We matched 7,203 analysed hot spring sources to Japan's ski areas. 255 of 397 have one within 5 km, 145 of them at 42 °C or hotter, and 54 have one within 1 km. These are the ski areas that pair top snow with hot water close by, and the ones where the water is strongly acidic.
- Shirakawa-go's Snow Falls at Around 0°C. That Is Why the Roofs Are 60 Degrees. Japan has thatched villages all over the country, and only one of them built roofs like praying hands. We measured the snow at four of them: Shirakawa-go gets twelve times Miyama's depth, and it arrives at the heaviest temperature snow can fall.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52