北海道パウダーベルト？ 増毛町暑寒別岳スキー場 ツリーランを楽しむ🎵 2026/1/18
By: Old fool on skis · 2026-01-18
Mashike Choei Shokanbetsudake Ski Area is a ski area in Hokkaido, Japan, on slopes between roughly 106 and 313 m. Its mapped area is about 1.1 km across, with 7 marked runs and 2 lifts (about 3.8 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 416 cm of snowfall a season, 71st of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (592 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (224 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (130 and 125 cm on average). Snowfall days average −3.2 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 29th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Asahikawa, about 68 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.
Temperature
14.3℃
Max wind
25.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
106–313m
Across
1.1km
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
416 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
224 cm
A typical winter: 448 cm. The best: 592 cm.
World rank
151
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
71
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
345
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 202 m, 564 m below the national median.
Quality rank
29
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.2°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
8%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
35%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
25 km/h
Dryness 0.37
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.79
Calm when snowing 0.88
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyodai Ski Area | 27 km | 290 cm | 521 |
| Ashimoi Kanko Takaho Ski Area | 34 km | 225 cm | 913 |
| Shintotsukawacho Sotchidake | 37 km | 205 cm | 1105 |
| Kamoidake Kokusai | 50 km | 201 cm | 1140 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 50% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 63 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
130cmDec
125cmJan
98cmFeb
63cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 416 cm, and 4 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 224 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 592 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.
224
592
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
7
Run length
3.8km
Lifts
2
Vertical
191m
Top 316 m · base 126 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch23°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.8°
Which way the slopes face
North 11%
East 0%
South 5%
West 85%
Only 11% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Easy 2
Intermediate 2
Advanced 2
Other 1
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
On the mountainWatch live ↗Operated by: 暑寒別岳スキー場Roads nearby国道231号 ↗From the resort: 5.5 kmOperated by: 北海道開発局
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.
See the snow in motion
Videos remain the copyright of whoever filmed them. JAPANSNOWLINE stores no video and plays everything through the standard YouTube player.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mashike Station増毛駅 | Landmark | 5.5 km |
| Itsukushima Shrine厳島神社 (増毛町) | Shrine | 5.5 km |
| Uryunuma Wetland雨竜沼湿原 | Mountain | 13 km |
| 留萌テレビ中継局 | Landmark | 16 km |
| Rumoi Umi no Furusato Museum留萌市海のふるさと館 | Museum | 17.2 km |
| Cape Ofuyu雄冬岬 | Nature | 19.3 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 ↗ Coordinates: 43.8072, 141.5346
Places to stay nearby
2 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| オーベルジュましけ | — | — | 5.5 km | ＪＲ留萌駅下車。沿岸バス 停留所「暑寒橋」下車、徒歩1分。 |
| 保護猫カフェくつろぎの家 | — | — | 7.2 km | 舎熊第二バス停より徒歩１分、深川留萌道留萌ICよりお車で約30分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
1 Hotel 1 Guest house
Nearest: 5.5 km
Nearest first
- オーベルジュましけ Hotel 5.5 km
- ぼちぼちいこか増毛館 Guest house 5.7 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Hokkaido
- A Historic El Niño Is Forecast. Here Is What the Last Big One Did to Japan's Snow. NOAA gives a very strong El Niño better than a 90% chance this winter. We measured every Japanese ski area across the last 12 winters: El Niño winters ran 88% of normal, and the strongest of the twelve left Japan at 63%. But Hakuba held 92% of its average that winter while Niseko fell to 57%.
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- Australia Just Had Its Worst Season in Twenty Years. Here Is What Japan's 12-Winter Record Says About Booking It Instead. Snow depth at Spencers Creek peaked at 94.5 cm, the third lowest since 1954, and resorts closed in August. Our own measure — snowfall, not depth — puts Australia at 50% of its 12-year average. The gap between those two numbers is the story: it was the warmth, not only the lack of snow. New Zealand, meanwhile, finished at 108% of normal.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52