Inakawa Ski Area Suberotta is a ski area in Akita, Japan, on slopes between roughly 124 and 250 m. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across, with 1 marked run and 1 lift (about 0.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 229 cm of snowfall a season, 224th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (323 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (138 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 83 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 7.1 km away measured 422 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 254 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −0.8 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 333rd 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tengamori Ski Area | 6.8 km | 377 cm | 211 |
| Jeunesse Kurikoma Ski Area | 17 km | 407 cm | 165 |
| Gionyama Ski Area | 20 km | 321 cm | 401 |
| Gosannen Ski Area | 22 km | 230 cm | 877 |
| Choei Yuda Ski Area | 29 km | 332 cm | 345 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 27% 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 22 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 229 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 138 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 323 cm (2.3 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
94% 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
- Chairlift1
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 湯沢 weather station — 7.1 km from this ski area, 113 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 422 cm |
| 2023/24 | 269 cm |
| 2024/25 | 540 cm |
| 2025/26 | 456 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 254 cm.
A weather station is not a ski slope. We picked one at a similar elevation, but it stands in a valley or a village. More snow falls on the mountain above it. We have not tried to guess how much more.
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency historical records
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 29 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 戸波 | 1.8 km | 13.5℃ cold | 9.2 alkaline | — | — |
| a spring in 稲川町飯田 | 2.5 km | 12.2℃ cold | 6.4 neutral | simple | — |
| 湯の原 | 3.5 km | 29℃ lukewarm | 7.6 mildly alkaline | simple | — |
| 清水小屋河原母之湯 | 3.9 km | 21℃ cold | 5.7 mildly acidic | simple | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 横手市増田伝統的建造物群保存地区 | Old streets | 4.3 km |
| Yokote Masuda Manga Museum横手市増田まんが美術館 | Museum | 4.5 km |
| Akita Museum of Modern Art秋田県立近代美術館 | Museum | 14.2 km |
| Akita Furusato-mura秋田ふるさと村 | Leisure | 14.3 km |
| Yokote Castle横手城 | Historic site | 17.5 km |
| Isawa Dam胆沢ダム | Nature | 17.6 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.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
Places to stay nearby
12 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ｈｏｓｔｅｌ＆Ｂａｒ ＣＡＭＯＳＩＢＡ | ¥3,900 | 4.40 18 reviews | 6.5 km | JR奥羽本線十文字駅より徒歩にて約３分、十文字ICより約１０分 |
| お宿Ｕｇｏ・田 | ¥5,000 | — | 7.8 km | JR湯沢駅よりお車で10分、東北中央自動車道湯沢ICより10分 JR湯沢駅まで送迎いたします |
| 丸福旅館 | ¥5,300 | 4.59 156 reviews | 6.4 km | 十文字駅から徒歩2分/(電車)横手駅から十文字駅まで12分。湯沢駅から7分。 |
| 宝蔵庵 | ¥6,600 | 4.71 7 reviews | 3.9 km | 十文字駅より路線バスで約１５分（前もってご連絡いただけば十文字駅までお迎えに行きます） |
| 湯沢グランドホテル＜秋田県＞ | ¥7,018 | 3.95 779 reviews | 4.3 km | 奥羽本線湯沢駅から徒歩で4分 |
| 湯沢ロイヤルホテル | ¥8,000 | 3.79 480 reviews | 4.4 km | 横手湯沢道路 湯沢ＩＣ下車５分/ＪＲ奥羽本線 湯沢駅下車 徒歩７分/コンビニ 徒歩３分 |
| ＭＵＳＩＲＯ ＳＡＵＮＡ | ¥12,700 | — | 6.4 km | 十文字駅より徒歩約３分 |
| 草木ももとせ／民泊 | ¥21,924 | — | 5.2 km | 下湯沢駅から徒歩で約３分 |
| 林旅館 | — | — | 4.4 km | 十文字駅よりお車かバスで５・６分 |
| 丹尾旅館 | — | — | 6.5 km | 十文字駅より徒歩にて５分 |
| 真人温泉旅館 | — | — | 5.9 km | 十文字駅から車で１０分 |
| 横手市平鹿ときめき交流センターゆっぷる | — | — | 7.9 km | 醍醐駅からお車で１０分 |
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Stay nearby
13 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Akita
- 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.
- Will There Be Snow at Japan's Winter Festivals? Three Winters, Measured Japan's winter festivals are photographed in deep snow. We measured what was actually on the ground during each one across three winters — and checked the 580-year record of a frozen lake that has now failed eight years running.
- Japan's Snow Huts Are Water Shrines. The Snowiest Towns Do Not Have Them. The kamakura is not a shelter from snow. It is a well-side shrine to a water god, roughly 450 years old, and Yokote built its huts on 6 cm of snow in 2024. We measured the snow at five towns that hold one.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52