Honokidaira Ski Area is a ski area in Gifu, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,212 and 1,533 m. Its mapped area is about 1.5 km across, with 16 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 8.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 354 cm of snowfall a season, 104th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2025/26 (246 cm), reached 69% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 109 cm. Snowfall days average −4.9 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 89th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Matsumoto, about 44 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hida Takayama Municipal Ski Resort | 6.0 km | 354 cm | 277 |
| Hirayu Onsen Ski Area | 6.3 km | 384 cm | 201 |
| Blue Resort Norikura | 12 km | 317 cm | 421 |
| Shinshu-Matsumoto Nomugitoge Ski Resort | 25 km | 318 cm | 408 |
| Hida Funayama Snow Resort Arkopia | 26 km | 150 cm | 1665 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 65 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 354 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 246 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 458 cm (1.9 times as much).
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
88% 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
- Chairlift5
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
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Norikura and Hida webcams & snow report — all 9 ski areas →
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 22.8 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 乗鞍温泉峠の湯 | 0.6 km | 7.7℃ cold | 5.6 mildly acidic | carbon dioxide | 1964 |
| 乗鞍温泉みこしの湯 | 1.6 km | 9.6℃ cold | 5.3 mildly acidic | carbon dioxide | 1964 |
| 銚子温泉 | 3.3 km | 22.8℃ cold | 6.5 neutral | — | 1967 |
| a spring in 丹生川村 | 3.4 km | 22℃ cold | 6.4 neutral | bicarbonate | 1957 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Norikura乗鞍岳 | Mountain | 9 km |
| Mount Yake焼岳 | Mountain | 10.7 km |
| Shirahone Onsen白骨温泉 | Hot spring town | 12.4 km |
| Kamikōchi上高地 | Mountain | 15.3 km |
| Hida Mountains飛騨山脈 | Mountain | 19.3 km |
| Hotaka Mountains穂高岳 | Mountain | 19.3 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.
Official piste map ↗Places to stay nearby
6 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| わんわんパラダイス 高山（旧：高山わんわんパラダイス ホテル＆コテージ） | ¥8,841 | 4.42 1069 reviews | 1.0 km | JR高山線 高山駅／長野自動車道 松本ICより約55km／中部縦貫自動車道 高山ICより約30km |
| ロッヂことぶき | — | — | 0.6 km | 高山駅よりお車にて約４０分 |
| 朴の木平ロッヂ シュプール | — | — | 0.7 km | ＪＲ 高山駅より平湯方面行きバスにて４０分。朴の木平スキー場にて下車 |
| ジョイフル朴の木 | — | — | 0.7 km | ＪＲ 高山駅よりお車で約４０分 |
| ペンション いしみず | — | — | 0.9 km | 国道１５８号線沿い 平湯トンネルより高山方面９．５ｋｍ 高山へ２６ｋmｍ |
| ロッヂあるぺん | — | — | 1.4 km | 高山駅よりバスにて４０分、久手停下車より徒歩にて２分 |
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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