「朝湯治であぁ～クセになる」日本三大薬湯 松之山温泉 朝湯治pv full
By: 一般社団法人十日町市観光協会 · 2022-06-29
Nakasato Kiyotsu is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 481 and 783 m. Its mapped area is about 1.8 km across, with 3 marked runs and 1 lift (about 4.5 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 618 cm of snowfall a season, 26th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (774 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (328 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 216 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 5.3 km away measured 987 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 610 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −1.6 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 179th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 65 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
13.9℃
Max wind
9.1km/h
Elevation (est.)
481–783m
Across
1.8km
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
618 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
328 cm
A typical winter: 625 cm. The best: 774 cm.
World rank
36
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
26
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
236
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 628 m, 138 m below the national median.
Quality rank
179
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-1.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
32%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
37%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
14 km/h
Dryness 0.26
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joetsu International | 5.5 km | 695 cm | 12 |
| Ishiuchi Hanaoka Ski Area | 6.3 km | 695 cm | 12 |
| Ishiuchi Maruyama Ski Resort | 7.4 km | 695 cm | 12 |
| New Greenpia Tsunan | 8.6 km | 618 cm | 36 |
| Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort | 8.9 km | 618 cm | 36 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 39% 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 85 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
170cmDec
216cmJan
148cmFeb
85cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 618 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 328 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 774 cm (2.4 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.
328
774
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
3
Run length
4.5km
Lifts
1
Vertical
270m
Top 768 m · base 499 m
Run map
Other Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.9 km
Steepest pitch22°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.2°
Which way the slopes face
North 33%
East 0%
South 1%
West 66%
Only 33% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Other 3
Lift types
- Chairlift1
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: 十日町市観光協会Roads nearby国道117号 ↗From the resort: 5.5 kmOperated by: 新潟県 および新潟県IT＆ITS推進協議会
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.
Echigo-Yuzawa webcams & snow report — all 18 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.
Official YouTube channel
More than we show here.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 津南 weather station — 5.3 km from this ski area, 180 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 987 cm |
| 2023/24 | 817 cm |
| 2024/25 | 1240 cm |
| 2025/26 | 903 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 610 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
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
1 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 33 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 瀬戸口瑠璃の湯 | 2.7 km | 33℃ lukewarm | 7.5 mildly alkaline | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kiyotsu Gorge清津峡 | Nature | 6 km |
| Yuzawa Kōgen Ropeway湯沢高原ロープウェイ | Nature | 10.6 km |
| Echigo Yuzawa Onsen越後湯沢温泉 | Hot spring town | 11.2 km |
| Matsunoyama Onsen松之山温泉 | Hot spring town | 12.8 km |
| Tōkamachi City Museum十日町市博物館 | Museum | 13.6 km |
| Mount Naeba苗場山 | Mountain | 19.7 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: 37.0197, 138.7353
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 清津峡温泉 いろりとほたるの宿せとぐち | ¥12,500 | 4.75 51 reviews | 2.7 km | 上越新幹線越後湯沢駅下車 車で２５分／関越自動車道 ・塩沢石打インターより 車で２０分 |
| 古民家巳巳／民泊 | — | — | 1.8 km | 越後田沢駅から車で約１０分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
Stay nearby
24 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
15 Chalet 7 Hotel 1 Guest house 1 Motel
Nearest: 3.1 km
Nearest first
- ベルナティオ別館 Hotel 3.1 km
- ベルナティオ本館 Hotel 3.3 km
- ミオンなかさと Hotel 5.8 km
- Ciassic Lab 柳の家 Guest house 6.1 km
- だいすきさんが－旧三箇小学校 Motel 6.5 km
- 渓泉荘 Hotel 6.8 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
What we have measured at Nakasato Kiyotsu
- Japan's Snow Huts Are Water Shrines. The Snowiest Towns Do Not Have Them. The kamakura is not a shelter from snow. It is a well-side shrine to a water god, roughly 450 years old, and Yokote built its huts on 6 cm of snow in 2024. We measured the snow at five towns that hold one.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52