【ジュネス栗駒スキー場】25-26season 新雪が凄い！深雪が凄い！パフパフ三昧しませんか?
By: KUMA CHANNL · 2026-02-07
Jeunesse Kurikoma Ski Area is a ski area in Akita, Japan, on slopes between roughly 292 and 681 m. Its mapped area is about 2.2 km across, with 13 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 9.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 407 cm of snowfall a season, 76th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (549 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (171 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 137 cm. Snowfall days average −2.4 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 178th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Morioka, about 71 km away.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
13.4℃
Max wind
11.3km/h
Elevation (est.)
292–681m
Across
2.2km
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
407 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
171 cm
A typical winter: 434 cm. The best: 549 cm.
World rank
165
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
76
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
267
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 489 m, 277 m below the national median.
Quality rank
178
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.4°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
25%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
31%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
23 km/h
Dryness 0.31
Frequency 0.87
Freedom from rain 0.36
Calm when snowing 0.91
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 | 9.8 km | 377 cm | 211 |
| Inakawa Ski Area Suberotta | 17 km | 229 cm | 885 |
| Geto Kogen | 17 km | 355 cm | 275 |
| Choei Yuda Ski Area | 21 km | 332 cm | 345 |
| Gosannen Ski Area | 28 km | 230 cm | 877 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 46% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 63 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
116cmDec
137cmJan
92cmFeb
63cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 407 cm, and 3 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 171 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 549 cm (3.2 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.
171
549
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
13
Run length
9.6km
Lifts
4
Vertical
381m
Top 771 m · base 390 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.6 km
Steepest pitch34°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs12.6°
Which way the slopes face
North 20%
East 6%
South 5%
West 69%
Only 26% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Easy 6
Intermediate 4
Advanced 3
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.
See the snow in motion
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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 36.2 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 岩井川・なるせジュネス休養センター | 2.4 km | 36.2℃ warm | 7.1 neutral | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Isawa Dam胆沢ダム | Nature | 4.1 km |
| Geto Onsen no Sekkaika夏油温泉の石灰華 | Hot spring town | 14 km |
| Geto Onsen夏油温泉 | Hot spring town | 14.6 km |
| Yokote Masuda Manga Museum横手市増田まんが美術館 | Museum | 16.5 km |
| Hottoyuda Stationほっとゆだ駅 | Landmark | 17.8 km |
| 湯田温泉峡 | Hot spring town | 19.5 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 ↗ Coordinates: 39.1582, 140.7323
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| やまゆり温泉 ホテルブラン | ¥8,250 | 4.50 55 reviews | 0.5 km | 十文字駅からバスにて約３０分／湯沢横手自動車道十文字ICより国道３４２号、国道３９７号 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
5 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
3 Guest house 2 Hotel
Nearest: 0.5 km
Nearest first
- やまゆり温泉 ホテルブラン Hotel 0.5 km
- グルメペンション お山の大将 Guest house 1.8 km
- クラフトペンション きのこ小舎 Guest house 1.8 km
- 東成瀬村役場 青少年山の家 Guest house 2.3 km
- なるせ温泉 東仙歩 Hotel 2.4 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Jeunesse Kurikoma Ski Area
- 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