井川スキー場 腕山 閉館😢 #スノーボード #みよし市
By: IDOが行く · 2026-02-22
Ikawa Ski Resort is a ski area in Tokushima, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,050 and 1,164 m. Its mapped area is about 0.6 km across, with 4 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 1.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 88 cm of snowfall a season, 383rd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (144 cm), brought more than 7 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (19 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 30 cm. Snowfall days average −3.3 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 367th 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
14.5℃
Max wind
7.5km/h
Elevation (est.)
1050–1164m
Across
0.6km
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
88 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
19 cm
A typical winter: 90 cm. The best: 144 cm.
World rank
2500
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
383
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
96
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,113 m, 347 m above the national median.
Quality rank
367
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
27%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
5%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
20 km/h
Dryness 0.38
Frequency 0.14
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.94
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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 40% 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 12 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
23cmDec
30cmJan
23cmFeb
12cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 88 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 19 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 144 cm (7.6 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.
19
144
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
1.8km
Lifts
2
Vertical
91m
Top 1,172 m · base 1,081 m
Run map
NoviceIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.3°
Which way the slopes face
North 46%
East 8%
South 0%
West 46%
54% 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
Novice 2
Intermediate 1
Advanced 1
Lift types
- Chairlift2
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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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ikawa Ski Resort Kainayama井川スキー場腕山 | Nature | 0.1 km |
| Iya Onsen祖谷温泉 | Hot spring town | 7.8 km |
| Iya Valley祖谷渓 | Nature | 8.7 km |
| Hashikurasan Ropeway箸蔵山ロープウェイ | Landmark | 9.6 km |
| Kazura bridge at the Iya Valleyかずら橋 | Landmark | 10.7 km |
| Unpen-ji Temple雲辺寺 | Temple | 17 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: 33.9623, 133.8856
Places to stay nearby
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 勇楼 旅館 | ¥6,500 | 4.29 24 reviews | 7.4 km | ＪＲ 辻駅より徒歩にて５分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
60 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
26 Hotel 20 Guest house 9 Chalet 3 Motel 2 Hostel
Nearest: 0.3 km
Nearest first
- ハレとケ珈琲 Guest house 4.7 km
- 勇楼旅館 Hotel 7.4 km
- 阿波池田駅前ホテル イレブン Hotel 10.4 km
- 4S STAY Hostel 10.4 km
- Hotel Hikyou-no-Yu Hotel 10.4 km
- Oku-Iya Hotel Hotel 10.7 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52