Hyper Bowl Tohachi is a ski area in Hyogo, Japan, at about 833 m.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 200 cm of snowfall a season, 266th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (313 cm), brought more than 6 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (51 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 68 cm. Snowfall days average −2.5 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 304th of 397 in Japan.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sky Valley Ski Area | 0.7 km | 197 cm | 1174 |
| Hachikogen Ski Resort | 2.8 km | 237 cm | 810 |
| Mikata Snow Park | 3.5 km | 235 cm | 823 |
| Hyounosen Kokusai Ski Resort | 4.1 km | 205 cm | 1105 |
| Hachikita Kogen | 4.8 km | 235 cm | 823 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 43% 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 29 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 200 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 51 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 313 cm (6.1 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.
Hyonosen and Hachikita webcams & snow report — all 10 ski areas →
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗More places to look
Guides covering Hyogo
- 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