Kuzuryu Ski Resort is a ski area in Fukui, Japan, on slopes between roughly 418 and 765 m. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 8 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 3.9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 300 cm of snowfall a season, 151st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (443 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (171 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 104 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 1.8 km away measured 561 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 320 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −1.1 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 296th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Fukui, about 44 km away. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fukui Izumi Ski Resort | 5.3 km | 315 cm | 427 |
| WINGHILLS Shiratori Resort | 16 km | 266 cm | 637 |
| Dynaland | 21 km | 322 cm | 393 |
| Takasu Snow Park | 22 km | 322 cm | 393 |
| Washigatake Ski Area | 25 km | 220 cm | 953 |
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 38 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 300 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 171 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 443 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 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
52% 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
- Chairlift4
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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Okumino webcams & snow report — all 15 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 九頭竜 weather station — 1.8 km from this ski area, 155 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 561 cm |
| 2023/24 | 496 cm |
| 2024/25 | 764 cm |
| 2025/26 | 424 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 320 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kuzuryu Dam九頭竜ダム | Nature | 2.9 km |
| 九頭竜温泉 | Hot spring town | 3.2 km |
| Itoshiro Cedar石徹白の大杉 | Nature | 18 km |
| Okuetsu Kōgen Prefectural Natural Park奥越高原県立自然公園 | Nature | 18.6 km |
| Ōno Castle大野城 (越前国) | Historic site | 18.7 km |
| Heisenji Hakusan Shrine平泉寺白山神社 | Shrine | 19.5 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
3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 九頭竜ホテル フレアール和泉 | ¥4,000 | 3.72 25 reviews | 3.2 km | 越前下山駅より徒歩で15分。中部縦貫道下山ICより車で2分。 |
| ととのい星見庵 | ¥11,100 | — | 1.8 km | 九頭竜湖駅より車で約3分、中部縦貫道九頭竜ICより約1分 |
| 国民宿舎パークホテル九頭竜 | — | — | 0.5 km | 九頭竜湖駅より徒歩にて約１５分 |
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Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52