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Kase Ski Area

嘉瀬スキー場

Kase Ski Area is a ski area in Aomori, Japan, on slopes between roughly 20 and 44 m. Its mapped area is about 0.3 km across, with 1 marked run (about 0.2 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 234 cm of snowfall a season, 215th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (374 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (122 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 81 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 8.4 km away measured 379 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 319 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −1.3 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 300th 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.

Temperature

15.9℃

Max wind

17km/h

Elevation (est.)

20–44m

Across

0.3km

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

234 cm

per season

Worst of 12 winters

122 cm

A typical winter: 230 cm. The best: 374 cm.

World rank

832

of 3,069 worldwide

Rank in country

215

of 397 in Japan

Elevation rank

390

Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 52 m, 714 m below the national median.

Quality rank

300

of 397 in Japan

Temp when snowing

-1.3°C

Japanese median: -3.5°C

Rain days

26%

Japanese median: 16%

Days over 5 cm

21%

Japanese median: 15%

Wind when snowing

27 km/h

Dryness 0.24

Frequency 0.60

Freedom from rain 0.35

Calm when snowing 0.86

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
Aomori Spring Resort	28 km	324 cm	387
Iwakisan Hyakuzawa Ski Resort	30 km	324 cm	387
Moya Hills	31 km	339 cm	309
Hakkoda Kokusai Ski Area	38 km	371 cm	221
Yogoshiyama Ski Area	43 km	231 cm	865

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 37% 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 30 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

68cm

Dec

81cm

Jan

56cm

Feb

30cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 234 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 122 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 374 cm (3.1 times as much).

122

374

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

Run length

0.2km

Vertical

28m

Top 50 m · base 22 m

Run map

Other Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.2 km

Steepest pitch13°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs7.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 3%

East 42%

South 55%

West 0%

Only 45% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Other 1

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.

Roads nearby津軽自動車道 ↗From the resort: 6.6 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局青森河川国道事務所

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.

What was actually measured nearby

Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 五所川原 weather station — 8.4 km from this ski area, 23 m below its mid-slope.

Three-season average	379 cm
2023/24	276 cm
2024/25	484 cm
2025/26	377 cm

The figure calculated on this page is 319 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

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 38 °C).

Source	Distance	Temperature	pH	Type	Analysed
金木朝日山	3 km	34.6℃ warm	8 mildly alkaline	—	—
老人福祉センター福祉センター	4.6 km	38℃ warm	8.5 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
Osamu Dazai Memorial Museum太宰治記念館「斜陽館」	Museum	3 km
Tachineputa Museum立佞武多の館	Museum	8.4 km
Kamegaoka Stone Age Site亀ヶ岡遺跡	Historic site	11.7 km
Kizukuri Station木造駅	Landmark	11.7 km
Tsugaru Fujimi Lake津軽富士見湖	Nature	16.6 km
Sannai-Maruyama Site三内丸山遺跡	Historic site	20 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 ↗

Nearby resorts

Get directions ↗ Open in Google Maps ↗

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
民宿と食事処　エンゼル	¥5,500	3.60 54 reviews	4.2 km	津軽鉄道　芦野公園駅／東北自動車道　浪岡ＩＣ下車→津軽道から国道３３９
ＧｕｅｓｔＨｏｕｓｅつがるのへっちょ	¥6,250	—	7.1 km	五所川原北ICより車で5分、津軽鉄道十川駅より徒歩8分、JR五能線五所川原駅より車で6分
稲垣温泉ホテル花月亭	¥8,800	3.90 153 reviews	6.9 km	東北自動車道浪岡IC経由・津軽自動車道五所川原北IC（終点）から車で15分

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Stay nearby

8 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

7 Hotel 1 Guest house

Nearest: 3 km

Nearest first

Kanagi Onsen Hotel 3 km
民宿と食事処エンゼル Guest house 4.2 km
旅館たなべ Hotel 8.2 km
芝楽旅館 Hotel 8.3 km
ごしょがわら温泉ホテル Hotel 8.5 km
ホテルサンルート五所川原 Hotel 8.6 km

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

More places to look

Booking.com ↗Agoda ↗Rakuten Travelad ↗

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