島根県、瑞穂ハイランドスキー場。全国スキー場巡り第37話。
By: いらっしゃいませ、おじゃまします。 · 2026-04-12
Mizuho Highland is a ski area in Shimane, Japan, on slopes between roughly 491 and 1,040 m. Its mapped area is about 4.3 km across, with 13 marked runs and 5 lifts (about 15 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 102 cm of snowfall a season, 376th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (161 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (55 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 38 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 7.4 km away measured 238 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 112 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −2.0 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 379th 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
13.6℃
Max wind
7.2km/h
Elevation (est.)
491–1040m
Across
4.3km
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
102 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
55 cm
A typical winter: 90 cm. The best: 161 cm.
World rank
2346
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
376
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
103
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,080 m, 314 m above the national median.
Quality rank
379
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.0°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
28%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
5%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
25 km/h
Dryness 0.29
Frequency 0.13
Freedom from rain 0.35
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ski Park Kanbiki | 6.2 km | 95 cm | 2424 |
| Utopia Saioto | 6.4 km | 124 cm | 2044 |
| Osa Ski Resort | 17 km | 125 cm | 2029 |
| Geihoku Kokusai | 18 km | 125 cm | 2029 |
| Yawata Highland 191 Resort | 24 km | 125 cm | 2029 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 34% 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 13 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
23cmDec
38cmJan
28cmFeb
13cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 102 cm, and 8 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 55 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 161 cm (2.9 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.
55
161
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
13
Run length
15km
Lifts
5
Vertical
721m
Top 1,213 m · base 491 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.3 km
Steepest pitch36°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.5°
Which way the slopes face
North 35%
East 46%
South 18%
West 2%
81% 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
Easy 4
Intermediate 4
Advanced 5
Lift types
- Chairlift4
- Gondola1
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
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.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 大朝 weather station — 7.4 km from this ski area, 366 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 238 cm |
| 2023/24 | 155 cm |
| 2024/25 | 375 cm |
| 2025/26 | 185 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 112 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 千丈渓 | Nature | 13.7 km |
| 断魚渓 | Nature | 16.5 km |
| 美又温泉 | Hot spring town | 17.6 km |
| Nukui Dam温井ダム | Nature | 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 ↗ Coordinates: 34.7978, 132.3912
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 瑞穂ゲストハウス | ¥25,000 | — | 0.9 km | 浜田自動車道 瑞穂ＩＣより車で約８分 |
| やませみ | — | — | 2.8 km | 浜田駅よりお車で高速経由約30分、浜田自動車道瑞穂ICより約５分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
More places to look
What we have measured at Mizuho Highland
- 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