Kutsuki Snow Park is a ski area in Shiga, Japan, on slopes between roughly 470 and 583 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 3 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 1.4 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 118 cm of snowfall a season, 358th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (177 cm), brought more than 14 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (12 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 46 cm. Snowfall days average −0.3 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 382nd 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 13 km | 113 cm | 2196 |
| Biwako Valley | 13 km | 98 cm | 2397 |
| Ohana Resort | 27 km | 116 cm | 2148 |
| Akoyama Skijo Snowpal | 35 km | 142 cm | 1775 |
| Yogo Kogen Resort | 45 km | 249 cm | 743 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 22% 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 10 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 118 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 12 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 177 cm (14.8 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
100% 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.
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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 25.8 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 朽木温泉(仮称) | 2.6 km | 25.8℃ lukewarm | 8.16 mildly alkaline | alkaline simple | 1992 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 興聖寺 (高島市) | Temple | 3.5 km |
| Shirahige Shrine白鬚神社 | Shrine | 8.8 km |
| 近江舞子 | Nature | 10.9 km |
| Kumagawa-juku熊川宿 | Old streets | 13.3 km |
| Okishima沖島 | Nature | 17.6 km |
| Myōtsū-ji Temple明通寺 | Temple | 18.6 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 ↗Places to stay nearby
4 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| グリーンパーク想い出の森 山荘くつき | ¥6,000 | 4.25 21 reviews | 2.6 km | JR京都駅からJR湖西線安曇川駅下車、路線バス約30分 |
| 山里暮らし交房 風結い | ¥7,600 | 4.89 22 reviews | 3.2 km | ＪＲ湖西線「安曇川」駅よりお車にて約１５分 |
| 比良山系の麓のＬＯＤＧＥ Ｇｅｌａｎｄｅ（自然の中の山小屋風一軒家） ＾ | ¥10,904 | — | 2.9 km | 安曇川駅から車で約１９分 |
| グリーンパーク想い出の森バンガロー | ¥20,000 | 4.64 50 reviews | 2.6 km | ＪＲ 安曇川駅からバスで約３０分 |
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Stay nearby
6 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 3.6 km
Nearest first
- 一棟貸し棚田の古民家 庵じゅ～る Chalet 3.6 km
- 料理旅館 可以登楼 Hotel 7 km
- Ebisu-sou Hotel 7.6 km
- 長浜屋 Hotel 7.7 km
- STAGEX高島 Hotel 11.8 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Shiga
- 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