Izumigatake Ski Resort is a ski area in Miyagi, Japan, on slopes between roughly 510 and 770 m. Its mapped area is about 1.2 km across, with 7 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 2.1 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 146 cm of snowfall a season, 324th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2015/16 (98 cm), reached 67% of the average. January is usually the snowiest month, with about 51 cm. Snowfall days average −2.9 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 325th 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Valley Izumi Kogen | 2.7 km | 146 cm | 1714 |
| Kurobushi Kogen Snow Park Jangle Jungle | 16 km | 302 cm | 472 |
| Yakurai Garden Ski Area | 20 km | 139 cm | 1816 |
| Hanagasa Kogen Ski Area | 24 km | 321 cm | 401 |
| Water Jump Miyagi | 25 km | 117 cm | 2129 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 49% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 25 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 146 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 98 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 177 cm (1.8 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
Only 11% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Sendai webcams & snow report — all 2 ski areas →
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 24.6 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 泉鉱泉(泉区福岡湯沢) | 4.1 km | 24.6℃ cold | 7.8 mildly alkaline | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saihō-ji Temple西方寺 (仙台市) | Temple | 5.5 km |
| Miyagikyo distillery宮城峡蒸溜所 | Landmark | 11.3 km |
| Sakunami Onsen作並温泉 | Hot spring town | 11.6 km |
| Yurtec Stadium Sendai仙台スタジアム | Leisure | 16.4 km |
| Sendai Mediathequeせんだいメディアテーク | Museum | 19.1 km |
| Sendai Castle仙台城 | Historic site | 19.7 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
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ＩＺＵＭＩ ＰＥＡＫ ＢＡＳＥ（泉ピークベース） | ¥8,800 | 4.56 30 reviews | 0.9 km | 仙台駅からお車で約４５分、泉中央駅からお車で約３０分、東北自動車道泉ＰＡ（スマートＩＣ）より約２３分 |
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Stay nearby
9 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 0.4 km
Nearest first
- オーエンス泉岳自然ふれあい館 Hotel 0.4 km
- 定義館 Guest house 5.5 km
- 清水館 Guest house 5.6 km
- 清明荘 Hotel 11.4 km
- Ichinobo Hotel 11.5 km
- Oedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Sendai-Sakunami Hotel 11.5 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52