沼尻スキー場スノーボード大会【JIBりの森カップ】
By: 沼尻スキー場 · 2022-02-22
Numajiri Ski is a ski area in Fukushima, Japan, on slopes between roughly 842 and 1,207 m. Its mapped area is about 2.5 km across, with 18 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 9 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 283 cm of snowfall a season, 164th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (383 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (98 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 93 cm. Snowfall days average −5.3 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 62nd 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.
Temperature
11.4℃
Max wind
7.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
842–1207m
Across
2.5km
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
283 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
98 cm
A typical winter: 306 cm. The best: 383 cm.
World rank
554
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
164
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
111
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,034 m, 268 m above the national median.
Quality rank
62
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-5.3°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
11%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
20%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
21 km/h
Dryness 0.52
Frequency 0.56
Freedom from rain 0.71
Calm when snowing 0.93
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minowa Ski Resort | 3.7 km | 296 cm | 496 |
| Yokomuki Onsen Ski Area | 4.5 km | 296 cm | 496 |
| Adatara Kogen Ski Resort | 7.0 km | 283 cm | 554 |
| Nihonmatsu Shiozawa | 8.3 km | 170 cm | 1416 |
| Listel Ski Fantasia | 11 km | 246 cm | 761 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 61% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 57 cm, more than the median of 46 cm.
73cmDec
93cmJan
61cmFeb
57cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 283 cm, and 3 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 98 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 383 cm (3.9 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.
98
383
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
18
Run length
9km
Lifts
6
Vertical
348m
Top 1,213 m · base 865 m
Run map
NoviceEasyIntermediate Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.0 km
Steepest pitch30°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs8.6°
Which way the slopes face
North 1%
East 0%
South 29%
West 69%
Only 1% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. More of the terrain faces the sun.
By difficulty
Novice 9
Easy 6
Intermediate 3
Lift types
- Chairlift6
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.
Roads nearby国道49号 ↗From the resort: 14.5 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局 郡山国道事務所Roads nearby国道49号 ↗From the resort: 19 kmOperated by: 東北地方整備局 郡山国道事務所
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.
Adatara webcams & snow report — all 5 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.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
2 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 5 km of this ski area, nearest first (the hottest is 52.6 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 沼尻中ノ沢元湯 | 1.1 km | 52.6℃ hot | 1.8 acidic | iron | — |
| 横向ホテルマウント磐梯 | 4 km | 44.9℃ hot | 6.4 neutral | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Adatara安達太良山 | Mountain | 4.2 km |
| Mount Azuma-kofuji吾妻小富士 | Mountain | 12 km |
| Mount Bandai磐梯山 | Mountain | 14.8 km |
| Nihonmatsu Castle二本松城 | Historic site | 17 km |
| Lake Hibara桧原湖 | Nature | 17.2 km |
| Lake Inawashiro猪苗代湖 | Nature | 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: 37.6229, 140.2376
Places to stay nearby
13 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 中ノ沢温泉 庭園露天風呂の宿 朝日屋旅館 | ¥5,500 | 3.05 225 reviews | 2.7 km | ＪＲ磐越西線 猪苗代駅より路線バスで３０分、又は車で２０分 |
| しゃくなげ平貸別荘（第２別荘地）スタック株式会社 ＾ | ¥5,742 | — | 2.6 km | 川桁駅から車で約２２分 |
| 中ノ沢温泉 いろり湯の宿 大阪屋 | ¥7,500 | 4.06 131 reviews | 2.6 km | [電車]ＪＲ猪苗代駅よりバスで約30分 [車]猪苗代磐梯高原ICより約20分 |
| 中ノ沢温泉 源泉かけ流し１００％貸切風呂のある宿 花見屋旅館 | ¥7,700 | 4.24 293 reviews | 2.5 km | 磐越西線 ＪＲ猪苗代駅／磐越自動車道（高速） 猪苗代磐梯高原ＩＣ |
| 沼尻温泉 旅館 ひいらぎ | ¥8,240 | 1.00 34 reviews | 1.2 km | ＪＲ 猪苗代駅より車で２０分 |
| 磐梯名湯リゾート ボナリの森 | ¥8,800 | 3.99 1264 reviews | 2.7 km | 猪苗代駅・磐梯高原猪苗代ＩＣより車で約２５分。猪苗代駅より送迎あり（１４時００分迎え・１０時１５分送り ※事前電話予約制 |
| 中ノ沢温泉 平澤屋旅館 | ¥9,000 | 4.00 204 reviews | 2.7 km | 磐越西線猪苗代駅より路線バス30分「中ノ沢温泉下」／(東京より)東北道磐梯熱海IC→母成グリーンライン経由中ノ沢温泉 |
| 猪苗代沼尻温泉 沼尻高原ロッジ | ¥9,900 | 4.61 98 reviews | 1.1 km | JR磐越西線「猪苗代駅」から車で約20分 |
| 中ノ沢温泉 磐梯西村屋 | ¥10,100 | 4.00 166 reviews | 2.6 km | JR 猪苗代駅より東都バス 中ノ沢温泉停留所下車 |
| しゃくなげ平貸別荘（第２別荘地） | ¥12,800 | — | 2.6 km | 猪苗代駅よりお車で約３０分、磐越自動車道猪苗代・磐梯高原ICより約２５分 |
| 中ノ沢温泉 御宿 万葉亭 | ¥25,850 | 4.50 234 reviews | 2.9 km | 猪苗代駅・猪苗代磐梯高原ＩＣから車で約２０分 |
| 中ノ沢温泉 磐梯ハイランドホテル | — | — | 2.5 km | 磐越自動車道・磐梯熱海ＩＣより車で２０分 猪苗代ICより車で20分 |
Show the other 1
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 中ノ沢温泉 旅館 白城屋 | — | 4.76 272 reviews | 2.6 km | 猪苗代駅／会津バス（中ノ沢行 ３０分）送迎不可 |
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Stay nearby
1 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 Fukushima
- Japan Is Sold on Powder. Measured, It Is the Easiest Big Ski Country to Learn In. Half of Japan's pisted kilometres are graded easy or novice — against 24% in the United States and 28% in Canada. And 255 of Japan's 397 ski areas have a natural hot-spring source within 5 km. Here are the numbers, the caveat about grading, and the resorts where a first-timer gets the most of both.
- Tengendai Kogen: Some of Japan's Best Snow Quality, and No Live Camera Snow falls at −7.8 °C, rain arrives on 12% of winter days, and the top station is at 1,860 m. Eight places to stay, and no live camera of its own.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52