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Ninox Snow Park

ニノックススノーパーク
Off season Official site Lift tickets (official) 2026/27 adult day ticket ¥5,200 at the window (17 Dec – 22 Mar) (checked 15 Sept)

Ninox Snow Park is a ski area in Niigata, Japan, on slopes between roughly 313 and 957 m. Its mapped area is about 2.2 km across, with 7 marked runs and 3 lifts (about 4.4 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 567 cm of snowfall a season, 32nd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2017/18 (752 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (261 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 209 cm. Snowfall days average −2.3 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 154th of 397 in Japan.

The nearest city of any size is Niigata, about 39 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
14.1℃
Max wind
6.8km/h
Elevation (est.)
313–957m
Across
2.2km

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
567 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
261 cm
A typical winter: 592 cm. The best: 752 cm.
World rank
54
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
32
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
260
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 517 m, 249 m below the national median.
Quality rank
154
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-2.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
34%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
39%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.31
Frequency 1.00
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.97

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 areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Tainai Ski and Snowboard area9.1 km629 cm34
Mikawa Onsen24 km363 cm243
Yokone27 km446 cm114
Sannokura39 km384 cm201
Tenoko Ski Area44 km312 cm439

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 32% 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 67 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.

154cm
Dec
209cm
Jan
137cm
Feb
67cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 567 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 261 cm; the biggest was 2017/18 with 752 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.

261
752
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
4.4km
Lifts
3
Vertical
618m
Top 936 m · base 318 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs15.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 7%
East 0%
South 0%
West 93%

Only 7% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.

By difficulty

Easy 2
Intermediate 3
Advanced 2

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.

Official YouTube channel

More than we show here.

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.

PlaceTypeDistance
Tainaigawa Dam胎内川ダムNature6.5 km
Shimizu-en清水園Park13.5 km
Shibata Castle新発田城Historic site14 km
Tsukioka Onsen月岡温泉Hot spring town15.7 km
五頭山Mountain18 km
Iide Mountains飯豊山地Mountain18.8 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

1 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.

Press it and Rakuten Travel shows what is free on those dates across the properties listed here. Picking a property below does the same for that one property.

PropertyFromRatingDistanceGetting there
奥胎内ヒュッテ——5.3 kmJR 中条駅よりお車にて約50分

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Stay nearby

3 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.

2 Hotel 1 Hostel

Nearest: 5.3 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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