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New Greenpia Tsunan is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 687 and 936 m. Its mapped area is about 2.1 km across, with 7 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 6.2 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 618 cm of snowfall a season, 28th 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 4.9 km away measured 987 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 610 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −2.1 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 158th of 397 in Japan.
The nearest city of any size is Nagano, about 57 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
13.4℃
Max wind
6.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
687–936m
Across
2.1km
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
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
28
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
176
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 821 m, 55 m above the national median.
Quality rank
158
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.1°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 0.29
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nakasato Kiyotsu | 8.6 km | 618 cm | 36 |
| Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort | 8.6 km | 618 cm | 36 |
| Ishiuchi Maruyama Ski Resort | 9.5 km | 695 cm | 12 |
| Mitsumata Area | 9.5 km | 589 cm | 45 |
| Yuzawa Kogen Ski Resort | 9.6 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
7
Run length
6.2km
Lifts
3
Vertical
306m
Top 963 m · base 657 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map3.0 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8.7°
Which way the slopes face
North 78%
East 12%
South 7%
West 3%
90% 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 3
Intermediate 3
Advanced 1
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
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.
Echigo-Yuzawa webcams & snow report — all 18 ski areas →
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 津南 weather station — 4.9 km from this ski area, 359 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
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 39.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 秋成(年金保養基地)年金福祉事業団 | 1.1 km | 26.4℃ lukewarm | 8.1 mildly alkaline | simple | — |
| グリーンピア津南グリーンピア津南 | 1.1 km | 30.5℃ lukewarm | 8.5 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 穴藤鉱泉穴藤 | 2.7 km | 21.5℃ cold | 7.7 mildly alkaline | — | — |
| 逆巻蛇の湯 | 3.8 km | 39.5℃ warm | 8 mildly 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kiyotsu Gorge清津峡 | Nature | 5.9 km |
| Ryūgakubo竜ヶ窪 | Nature | 6.1 km |
| Yuzawa Kōgen Ropeway湯沢高原ロープウェイ | Nature | 9.9 km |
| Echigo Yuzawa Onsen越後湯沢温泉 | Hot spring town | 10.8 km |
| Mount Naeba苗場山 | Mountain | 11.9 km |
| Matsunoyama Onsen松之山温泉 | Hot spring town | 14.7 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: 36.9526, 138.6883
Places to stay nearby
1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ニュー・グリーンピア津南 | ¥11,300 | 4.06 1058 reviews | 1.2 km | 越後湯沢駅より大自然を楽しみながら送迎バスで約50分（要3日前予約）/関越自動車道塩沢石打ICより約30km |
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Stay nearby
2 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
More places to look
Guides covering Niigata
- Which Ski Resort Gets the Most Snow in the World? We measured snowfall at all 3,069 ski areas on earth the same way. The top two both shut in winter because they get too much snow: a Norwegian glacier at 783 cm that opens in May, and Okutadami Maruyama in Niigata at 765 cm. 46 of the top 100 are Japanese.
- How Japan's Early-Bird Lift Tickets Work: At Hakuba Happo-One, Eight of the Nine Need a Japanese ID Card Hakuba Happo-One opened early-bird sales at 10:00 on 1 October. A day costs ¥6,400 against ¥9,800 at the window, 35% off. But every ticket on the list except one needs a My Number Card and a Japanese phone app. A visitor from abroad can buy exactly one of them, at 15% off.
- Japan Lift Ticket Prices for 2026/27: What a Day Costs at Twelve Big Resorts, and the Weeks It Costs Half We checked the 2026/27 adult day ticket on each resort's own site. At the window it runs from ¥7,000 at Akakura Kanko to ¥16,700 at Rusutsu. Buying online saves up to ¥3,500, and the first and last weeks of the season cost up to half. For those cheap spring weeks, we add which way each resort's slopes face.
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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52