Kenmin no Mori Ski Area is a ski area in Hiroshima, Japan, on slopes between roughly 845 and 1,102 m. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 116 cm of snowfall a season, 361st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (169 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (64 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 41 cm. Snowfall days average −3.4 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 345th 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snow Resort Nekoyama | 13 km | 105 cm | 2319 |
| Dogoyama-Kougen Ski Resort | 13 km | 105 cm | 2319 |
| Kotobiki Forest Park Ski Area | 27 km | 129 cm | 1976 |
| Ibukinosato Ski Area | 33 km | 115 cm | 2167 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 39% 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 16 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 116 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 64 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 169 cm (2.6 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 marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Lift types
- Chairlift2
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 広島県民の森 | Park | 0.9 km |
| Mount Azuma吾妻山 (広島県・島根県) | Mountain | 3.1 km |
| Okuizumo Orochi Loop奥出雲おろちループ | Landmark | 6.2 km |
| 鬼の舌震 | Nature | 11.9 km |
| Hiba-Dōgo-Taishaku Quasi-National Park比婆道後帝釈国定公園 | Nature | 15.3 km |
| 斐乃上温泉 | Hot spring town | 16.6 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 ↗More places to look
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52