Mont Deus Hida-kuraiyama Snow Park is a ski area in Gifu, Japan, on slopes between roughly 916 and 1,173 m. Its mapped area is about 1.3 km across, with 7 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 4.7 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 150 cm of snowfall a season, 318th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2014/15 (262 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (101 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 49 cm. Snowfall days average −2.6 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 334th 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hida Funayama Snow Resort Arkopia | 4.2 km | 150 cm | 1665 |
| Meiho Ski Resort | 21 km | 193 cm | 1217 |
| Hida Takayama Municipal Ski Resort | 21 km | 354 cm | 277 |
| Hida Kawai Ski Resort | 23 km | 345 cm | 292 |
| Gujo Vacances Mura Ski Area | 27 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 55% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 27 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 150 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 101 cm; the biggest was 2014/15 with 262 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
96% 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
- Chairlift3
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
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 →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hida Ichinomiya Minashi Shrine飛騨一宮水無神社 | Shrine | 4 km |
| Garyū-zakura臥龍桜 | Nature | 4.1 km |
| Hida Folk Village飛騨民俗村 | Museum | 8.2 km |
| Takayama Jin'ya高山陣屋 | Historic site | 9.6 km |
| Hida Kokubun-ji Temple飛騨国分寺 | Temple | 9.8 km |
| Hikaru Museum光ミュージアム | Museum | 10.8 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
6 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 飛騨高山の宿 山里体験の宿 民宿 すみれ荘 | ¥6,000 | 4.50 46 reviews | 3.9 km | 飛騨一ノ宮駅／東海北陸道 清見インターから中部縦貫道に乗り換え高山インターを下車 Ｒ41車で10分 |
| ＷＡＴ ＲＥＳＯＲＴ プライベート ヴィラ ひだいちのみや | ¥8,000 | 4.44 17 reviews | 2.1 km | JR高山駅から車で約22分 |
| おやど螢 | ¥8,800 | 5.00 10 reviews | 1.8 km | 飛騨一ノ宮駅よりお車にて約５分。JR高山本線飛騨一之宮駅からの無料送迎をいたします。 |
| Ｖｉｌｌａ みとれ屋／民泊 | ¥23,200 | — | 2.8 km | 飛騨一ノ宮駅から徒歩で約６分 |
| 日本の宿 ひだ高山 倭乃里 | ¥40,700 | 5.00 73 reviews | 1.8 km | 高山駅よりお車で20分 （高山駅⇔倭乃里送迎あり／7日前までの予約制） |
| 農家民宿 みづの荘 | — | — | 2.3 km | ＪＲ高山本線 飛騨高山駅から車で１５分 |
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Stay nearby
62 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Nearest: 7.3 km
Nearest first
- Auberge Hidanomori Guest house 8.2 km
- NEWING Apartment 9 km
- Minshuku Sosuke Guest house 9.1 km
- Tau Guesthouse Guest house 9.1 km
- Takayama Hostel Guesthouse Zenkoji Temple Hotel 9.3 km
- Tomarotto Hotel Hostel 9.3 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Gifu
- When Is There Snow at Japan's Hot Spring Towns? If you want to sit in an outdoor bath with snow on the ground, the question is when, not just where. We measured the snow depth at 14 Japanese hot spring towns across three winters — arrival, departure, and how many days it is actually deep.
- Ski and Soak in Japan: Which Ski Areas Have a Hot Spring Source Next Door, and How Hot the Water Is We matched 7,203 analysed hot spring sources to Japan's ski areas. 255 of 397 have one within 5 km, 145 of them at 42 °C or hotter, and 54 have one within 1 km. These are the ski areas that pair top snow with hot water close by, and the ones where the water is strongly acidic.
- Shirakawa-go's Snow Falls at Around 0°C. That Is Why the Roofs Are 60 Degrees. Japan has thatched villages all over the country, and only one of them built roofs like praying hands. We measured the snow at four of them: Shirakawa-go gets twelve times Miyama's depth, and it arrives at the heaviest temperature snow can fall.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52