🇯🇵 Japan · Fukui

Imajo 365

今庄365スキー場

Imajo 365 is a ski area in Fukui, Japan, on slopes between roughly 422 and 665 m. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 12 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 5.8 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 249 cm of snowfall a season, 199th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (409 cm), brought more than 4 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (84 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 90 cm. Snowfall days average −0.9 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 323rd of 397 in Japan.

Below are links to 3 official live cameras.

Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.

Temperature

15.8℃

Max wind

6.9km/h

Elevation (est.)

422–665m

Across

1.6km

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

249 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

84 cm

A typical winter: 240 cm. The best: 409 cm.

World rank

743

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

199

of 397 in Japan

Elevation rank

244

Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 589 m, 177 m below the national median.

Quality rank

323

of 397 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-0.9°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

43%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

18%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

21 km/h

Dryness 0.21

Frequency 0.50

Freedom from rain 0.35

Calm when snowing 0.93

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
Yogo Kogen Resort	3.0 km	249 cm	743
Akoyama Skijo Snowpal	21 km	142 cm	1775
Ohana Resort	21 km	116 cm	2148
Gransnow Okuibuki	32 km	194 cm	1201
Hakodateyama Ski Resort	35 km	113 cm	2196

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 26% 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 23 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

70cm

Dec

90cm

Jan

67cm

Feb

23cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 249 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 84 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 409 cm (4.9 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.

409

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

Run length

5.8km

Lifts

Vertical

321m

Top 754 m · base 433 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.3 km

Steepest pitch26°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs13.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 19%

East 77%

South 4%

West 1%

96% 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 3

Intermediate 5

Advanced 4

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.

Roads nearby国道8号 ↗From the resort: 6.6 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局福井河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道8号 ↗From the resort: 9.5 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局福井河川国道事務所 Roads nearby国道8号 ↗From the resort: 18.5 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局滋賀国道事務所

Road conditions decide whether you can get there at all. Check before you leave.

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Okuibuki and Yogo webcams & snow report — all 5 ski areas →

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
Kinome Pass木ノ芽峠	Nature	0.5 km
栃ノ木峠	Nature	3 km
Kanegasaki Castle金ヶ崎城	Historic site	8.7 km
Kanegasaki-gū金崎宮	Shrine	8.8 km
Tsuruga Minato Station敦賀港駅	Landmark	8.9 km
Kehi Jingū氣比神宮	Shrine	9.6 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.