Kanazawa Municipal Ski Resort is a ski area in Ishikawa, Japan, on slopes between roughly 406 and 533 m. Its mapped area is about 0.7 km across, with 6 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 1.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 314 cm of snowfall a season, 146th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (463 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (156 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 119 cm. Snowfall days average −1.1 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 298th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Kanazawa, about 11 km away. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IOX-AROSA | 5.5 km | 314 cm | 430 |
| Hakusan Senjo Onsen Seymour Ski Area | 21 km | 507 cm | 82 |
| Tonami Yumenotaira Ski Ground | 25 km | 218 cm | 973 |
| SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort | 30 km | 526 cm | 78 |
| Ookuradake Kogen Ski Area | 33 km | 215 cm | 995 |
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 32 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 314 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 156 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 463 cm (3.0 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
66% 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
- 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.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 39.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 蓮如温泉 | 2.4 km | 24℃ cold | 8.6 alkaline | bicarbonate | 1973 |
| 湯涌温泉湯涌温泉1号泉 | 4.5 km | 32.5℃ lukewarm | 7.6 mildly alkaline | chloride, sulphate | 1958 |
| 湯涌温泉湯涌温泉2号泉 | 4.5 km | 39.5℃ warm | 7.4 neutral | chloride, sulphate | 1958 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yuwaku Onsen湯涌温泉 | Hot spring town | 4.4 km |
| Iōzen医王山 | Mountain | 4.5 km |
| Kenroku-en兼六園 | Park | 9 km |
| Kanazawa Castle金沢城 | Historic site | 9.3 km |
| 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art金沢21世紀美術館 | Museum | 9.3 km |
| Shirayama Hime Shrine白山比咩神社 | Shrine | 14.5 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
11 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ＫＲ Ａｐａｒｔｍｅｎｔ ｉｎ Ｋａｎａｚａｗａ／民泊 | ¥3,747 | — | 7.2 km | 野町駅から車で約１１分 |
| ＢＥＡＮＳ ＳＴＡＹ石引 | ¥4,250 | — | 7.6 km | ＪＲ 金沢駅よりお車にて約１３分 |
| 金沢・銭がめ温泉 銭がめ | ¥11,550 | 4.91 39 reviews | 4.8 km | ＪＲ 金沢駅より北鉄バス東口７番のりば【湯涌温泉行き】乗車、【湯涌温泉】下車。約４０分 |
| お宿 やました | ¥11,600 | 4.79 102 reviews | 4.6 km | 金沢駅よりバス45分、小松空港よりバス乗り継ぎ100分、北陸自動車道～金沢環状道路経由車30分 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 日本料理 さかえや | ¥14,300 | 4.16 172 reviews | 4.5 km | 金沢西ＩＣよりお車で約30分 / 金沢駅より「湯涌温泉行バス」約40分 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 湯の出旅館 | ¥17,325 | 4.63 477 reviews | 4.1 km | 兼六園より車で25分、金沢駅より車で約40分。金沢森本I.Cから山側環状経由で30分。 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 山音（やまね） | ¥17,600 | 3.94 250 reviews | 4.4 km | JR金沢駅よりお車で30分 |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 百楽荘 | ¥18,172 | 4.67 769 reviews | 4.0 km | ★金沢中心街より車で20分★「金沢駅・兼六園」より“無料送迎”！お帰りは金沢駅近くへ荷物お届けサービス◎手ぶら観光もOK |
| 金沢湯涌温泉 古香里庵 | ¥18,700 | 4.64 41 reviews | 4.4 km | 金沢駅よりお車にて約40分 |
| いっぷく／民泊 | ¥19,210 | — | 8.1 km | 野町駅から車で約１０分 |
| アローザ温泉 イオックスヴァルト | ¥21,580 | 4.78 30 reviews | 6.6 km | 福光インターから車で１５分・小矢部インターから車で２０分／福光駅から車で１５分・金沢駅から車で４０分 |
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Stay nearby
111 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 Ishikawa
- Shirakawa-go's Snow Falls at Around 0°C. That Is Why the Roofs Are 60 Degrees. Japan has thatched villages all over the country, and only one of them built roofs like praying hands. We measured the snow at four of them: Shirakawa-go gets twelve times Miyama's depth, and it arrives at the heaviest temperature snow can fall.
- The Deepest Snow You Can Sleep in an Old Japanese House Is Not Shirakawa-go We measured the snow at seven villages where you can stay in traditional architecture, and how far each is from a lift. Shirakawa-go is 15.6 km from a middling ski hill. Shiozawa is 2.2 km from the world's =67th snowiest.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52