【4K SKI JAPOW】池の平温泉アルペンブリックスキー場｜400mの規格外ワイドバーン｜コース紹介（ALPEN BLICK Ski Resort）-2026/2/21
By: Real Japan Nature · 2026-03-13
🇯🇵 Japan · Niigata
Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort
池の平温泉アルペンブリックスキー場
Off season Official site
Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, at about 1,048 m.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 432 cm of snowfall a season, 66th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (560 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (230 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 149 cm. Snowfall days average −3.8 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 74th 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.
Temperature
12.6℃
Max wind
7.2km/h
Elevation
1,048m
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.
Seasonal snowfall
432 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
230 cm
A typical winter: 445 cm. The best: 560 cm.
World rank
129
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
66
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
110
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,048 m, 282 m above the national median.
Quality rank
74
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
17%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
26%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
13 km/h
Dryness 0.41
Frequency 0.75
Freedom from rain 0.57
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myoko Suginohara | 1.4 km | 357 cm | 268 |
| Akakura Kanko Ski Resort | 1.9 km | 445 cm | 117 |
| Akakura Onsen Ski Area | 2.8 km | 445 cm | 117 |
| Seki Onsen Ski Area | 3.6 km | 689 cm | 19 |
| Kyukamura Myoko | 4.3 km | 445 cm | 117 |
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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 64 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
121cmDec
149cmJan
99cmFeb
64cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 432 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 230 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 560 cm (2.4 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.
230
560
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.
Myoko and Joetsu webcams & snow report — all 11 ski areas →
See the snow in motion
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Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Official piste map ↗ Coordinates: 36.8736, 138.1555
More places to look
What we have measured at Ikenotaira Onsen Alpen Blick Ski Resort
- Myoko's Eleven Ski Areas: Which One to Choose Eleven ski areas sit within 16 km of Akakura. Measured over twelve winters, Seki Onsen gets 689 cm and Myoko Suginohara 357 cm — and Seki is the only one of the eleven in Japan's top 50 for both how much snow falls and what that snow is like. Here is what each one actually offers.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52