Kagamiganaru Ski Area is a ski area in Tottori, Japan, on slopes between roughly 920 and 1,051 m. Its mapped area is about 0.4 km across, with 1 marked run and 2 lifts (about 0.3 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 185 cm of snowfall a season, 282nd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (261 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (78 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 64 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 7.4 km away measured 677 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 221 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −3.9 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 290th of 397 in Japan.
Below are links to 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OkuDaisen Ski resort | 3.1 km | 185 cm | 1281 |
| Daisen Masumizu Kogen Snow Park | 7.4 km | 160 cm | 1541 |
| Daisen White Resort | 7.6 km | 158 cm | 1564 |
| Hiruzen Bear Valley Ski Resort | 9.6 km | 161 cm | 1527 |
| Ski & Board Resort Tsuguro Kogen | 21 km | 121 cm | 2077 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 42% 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 27 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 185 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 78 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 261 cm (3.3 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
Only 22% 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.
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Daisen webcams & snow report — all 5 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 大山 weather station — 7.4 km from this ski area, 110 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 677 cm |
| 2023/24 | 567 cm |
| 2024/25 | 773 cm |
| 2025/26 | 691 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 221 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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daisen大山 (鳥取県) | Mountain | 5.6 km |
| Daisen-ji Temple大山寺 (鳥取県大山町) | Temple | 7.3 km |
| Mount Senjō (Tottori)船上山 | Mountain | 9.2 km |
| Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography植田正治写真美術館 | Museum | 15.1 km |
| Ōgamiyama Shrine大神山神社 | Shrine | 18.8 km |
| Mukibanda Site妻木晩田遺跡 | Historic site | 18.8 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
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 休暇村 奥大山 （旧 大山鏡ヶ成） | ¥14,000 | 4.54 180 reviews | 0.3 km | 米子自動車道 蒜山ＩＣから約２０分／ＪＲ伯備線 根雨駅より送迎バス３０分 |
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More places to look
Guides covering Tottori
- How Accurate Is ERA5 Snowfall in Japan? Against 63 Weather Stations, It Reports About Half We compared ERA5 against 63 Japan Meteorological Agency stations near ski areas. The model returns 56% of what the ground measures — and the higher the station, the worse it gets. At 700 m and above it returns 39%.
- Is Western Japan Snowier Than It Looks? Our Model Against the Weather Stations Western Japan's ski areas look thin in our data — a median of 125 cm against a national 249 cm. Against 16 Japan Meteorological Agency stations, the model we use returns 44% of what the ground records there. The region is far snowier than our own numbers say.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52