新潟県六日町八海山スキー場【前が見えないくらいのパウダー】ファーストトラック！ドローン男子空撮
By: ドローン男子 7sky creative · 2026-02-12
🇯🇵 Japan · Niigata
Muikamachi Hakkaisan
八海山スキー場
Off season Official site Lift tickets (official) Last season (2025/26) adult day ticket ¥6,000 regular price (20 Dec – 29 Mar) · this season's price not yet published (as of 15 Sept)
Muikamachi Hakkaisan is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 419 and 1,138 m. Its mapped area is about 2.6 km across, with 13 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 11 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 728 cm of snowfall a season, 2nd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (974 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (313 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 252 cm. Snowfall days average −3.3 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 120th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Maebashi, about 81 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.
Temperature
14.4℃
Max wind
6.9km/h
Elevation (est.)
419–1138m
Across
2.6km
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
728 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
313 cm
A typical winter: 756 cm. The best: 974 cm.
World rank
5
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
2
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
222
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 683 m, 83 m below the national median.
Quality rank
120
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-3.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
30%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
42%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
12 km/h
Dryness 0.38
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 1.00
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hakkai Sanroku Ski Area | 4.7 km | 451 cm | 107 |
| Itsukamachi Ski Area | 8.4 km | 412 cm | 158 |
| Koide Ski Area | 13 km | 370 cm | 226 |
| Yakushi Ski Area | 13 km | 532 cm | 72 |
| Muica Snow Resort | 14 km | 546 cm | 67 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 40% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 100 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
203cmDec
252cmJan
173cmFeb
100cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 728 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 313 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 974 cm (3.1 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.
313
974
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
11km
Lifts
4
Vertical
810m
Top 1,168 m · base 358 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.6 km
Steepest pitch33°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.7°
Which way the slopes face
North 3%
East 3%
South 69%
West 25%
Only 6% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Novice 1
Easy 6
Intermediate 4
Advanced 2
Lift types
- Chairlift3
- Cable car1
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.
Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.
Minami-Uonuma webcams & snow report — all 6 ski areas →
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.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
3 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 27.6 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 城内城内 | 2.7 km | 25.1℃ lukewarm | 8.5 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 柳古新田 | 4.9 km | 27.6℃ lukewarm | 9 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 大和町大崎湯咲花源泉 | 4.9 km | 27℃ lukewarm | 9.2 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hakkaisan Ropeway八海山ロープウェー | Nature | 0.1 km |
| Mount Hakkai八海山 | Mountain | 3.7 km |
| Mount Echigo-Komagatake越後駒ヶ岳 | Mountain | 8.1 km |
| Echigo Sanzan-Tadami Quasi-National Park越後三山只見国定公園 | Nature | 9.6 km |
| 湯之谷温泉郷 | Hot spring town | 12.3 km |
| Mount Makihata巻機山 | Mountain | 15.4 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: 37.1163, 138.9848
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ペンション カム | ¥5,300 | 4.43 92 reviews | 2.3 km | 車：関越道・六日町ICから車で約20分／電車：上越線六日町駅から八海山スキー場行きバスで約25分 |
| ペンション村上 | ¥7,000 | 5.00 5 reviews | 2.1 km | JR浦佐駅－上越線 JR五日町駅よりタクシーで約15分 ／ 六日町ICより車で約20分 |
| ペンション わかい | — | 4.50 46 reviews | 2.0 km | ＪＲ六日町駅／上越新幹線 浦佐駅／関越道 六日町ＩＣより２０分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52