Ishizuchi SKi & Snowbaord Resort is a ski area in Ehime, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,158 and 1,373 m. Its mapped area is about 0.8 km across, with 3 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 1.1 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 63 cm of snowfall a season, 388th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (108 cm), brought more than 8 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (13 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 21 cm. Snowfall days average −3.6 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 384th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuma Ski Land | 25 km | 46 cm | 2841 |
| SOL-FA Oda ski slopes | 40 km | 45 cm | 2845 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 57% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 12 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 63 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 13 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 108 cm (8.3 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.
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
- Chairlift4
- Cable car1
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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Hot springs nearby, as analysed
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 16.1 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 石鎚山温泉 | 2 km | 16.1℃ cold | 6.5 neutral | chloride, bicarbonate, carbon dioxide | 1992 |
| 石鎚山温泉第2源泉(仮称) | 2.7 km | 14.6℃ cold | 6.2 neutral | chloride, bicarbonate | 2003 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ishizuchi Tozan Ropeway石鎚登山ロープウェイ | Nature | 1.2 km |
| Mount Ishizuchi石鎚山 | Mountain | 3.3 km |
| Yokomine-ji Temple横峰寺 | Temple | 5.1 km |
| Mount Kamegamori瓶ヶ森 | Mountain | 5.9 km |
| Omogo-kei面河渓 | Nature | 6.7 km |
| Besshi copper mine別子銅山 | Nature | 19.9 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 石鎚ふれあいの里 | ¥2,925 | 4.54 15 reviews | 3.9 km | 伊予小松Ｉ．Ｃ．より車で約３０分、伊予西条Ｉ．Ｃ．より車で約４０分、ＪＲ 伊予西条駅→せとうちバス西之川行＜ふれあいの里 |
| 国民宿舎 石鎚 | ¥8,000 | 4.54 15 reviews | 8.2 km | 松山空港より車で約3時間、松山自動車道・松山ICより約2時間30分 |
| 石鎚山 土小屋 白石ロッジ | — | — | 4.7 km | 松山駅より車で２時間 |
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Stay nearby
3 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 4.4 km
Nearest first
- 国民宿舎石鎚 Hotel 4.4 km
- 国民宿舎面河 Hotel 8.4 km
- Guesthouse Himi Guest house 11.2 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52