気持ちいい〜！晴れたオグナほたかスキー場の絶景パウダー！ドローン男子空撮
By: ドローン男子 7sky creative · 2026-02-02
Oguna Hotaka Ski Area is a ski area in Gunma, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,152 and 1,836 m. Its mapped area is about 3.1 km across, with 14 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 9.6 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 252 cm of snowfall a season, 193rd of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2021/22 (318 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (158 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 83 cm. Snowfall days are cold, averaging −7.1 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 54th of 397 in Japan.
Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear here once snow starts to fall. Until then, the long-run record comes first.
Temperature
10.4℃
Max wind
6.7km/h
Elevation (est.)
1152–1836m
Across
3.1km
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
252 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
158 cm
A typical winter: 248 cm. The best: 318 cm.
World rank
712
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
193
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
53
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,377 m, 611 m above the national median.
Quality rank
54
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-7.1°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
10%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
15%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
17 km/h
Dryness 0.65
Frequency 0.43
Freedom from rain 0.75
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 area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katashina Ogna Hotaka Snow Resort | 3.2 km | 252 cm | 712 |
| Kawaba Ski Resort | 4.5 km | 423 cm | 144 |
| Katashina Kogen Ski Resort | 5.9 km | 252 cm | 712 |
| White World Oze Iwakura | 6.0 km | 252 cm | 712 |
| Tambara Ski Park | 7.7 km | 423 cm | 144 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 60% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in Japan (52%). In amount, March brings 50 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
61cmDec
83cmJan
58cmFeb
50cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 252 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 158 cm; the biggest was 2021/22 with 318 cm (2.0 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.
158
318
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
14
Run length
9.6km
Lifts
6
Vertical
560m
Top 1,803 m · base 1,242 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.8 km
Steepest pitch27°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs11.8°
Which way the slopes face
North 10%
East 47%
South 33%
West 9%
57% 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 5
Intermediate 5
Advanced 4
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.
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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 29.5 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 花咲越沢の湯 | 4.5 km | 29.5℃ lukewarm | 8.4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Hotaka武尊山 | Mountain | 3.9 km |
| Yagisawa Dam矢木沢ダム | Nature | 17.4 km |
| Doai Station土合駅 | Landmark | 18.5 km |
| Numata Castle沼田城 | Historic site | 18.6 km |
| Oze尾瀬 | Nature | 18.9 km |
| Nagurumi Castle名胡桃城 | Historic site | 19.8 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 ↗ Coordinates: 36.7818, 139.1656
Places to stay nearby
21 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 民宿 永井荘 | ¥3,000 | — | 2.5 km | 沼田インターより車で３０分 |
| ペンション・ラパン | ¥5,000 | 4.50 16 reviews | 2.9 km | 関越道沼田ＩＣより車で４０分、ＪＲ沼田駅よりバス５０分武尊口下車送迎（要連絡） |
| ペンションら・ぱれっと | ¥5,500 | 4.50 13 reviews | 3.1 km | 沼田駅より鎌田方面バスにて１時間。武尊口下車。バス停までの送迎あり |
| はっぴぃぺんしょん | ¥6,000 | — | 3.3 km | ＪＲ 沼田駅より車で６０分 |
| 尾瀬武尊高原 ロッジ大品 | ¥6,000 | 3.60 19 reviews | 3.3 km | 上越線 沼田駅より尾瀬方面（バス）武尊口下車（送迎） |
| ペンション つかさ | ¥6,550 | 4.80 44 reviews | 3.3 km | ＪＲ上越線 沼田駅より鎌田行きバス５０分／関越自動車道 沼田ＩＣよりＲ１２０号で３０分 |
| ロッヂ北澤 | ¥6,600 | 3.88 17 reviews | 4.0 km | 沼田駅よりバスにて武尊高原へ。 |
| ペンショングリーンエイジ | ¥7,100 | 4.50 12 reviews | 3.4 km | 車：関越自動車道沼田IC-国道120号で約40分、 電車：上越線沼田駅下車 関越バス「鎌田」行きで40分 |
| ペンション てんとう虫 | ¥11,000 | 5.00 38 reviews | 2.8 km | 沼田Ｉ．Ｃより日光方面へ５０分。 |
| シャレー モンテローザ | ¥14,850 | 5.00 449 reviews | 1.9 km | 関越自動車道【沼田インターチェンジ】からお車で約40分 オグナほたかスキー場ゲートすぐ手前左側 |
| 奥武尊温泉 ホテル星亭 | — | 4.00 14 reviews | 0.5 km | 上越線「沼田駅」下車。関越交通路線バス５０分、武尊口バス停下車。 |
| ペンション グリーンフィールド | — | 4.40 44 reviews | 0.8 km | ＪＲ上越線 沼田駅下車／関越道沼田ＩＣよりお車で４０分 |
Show the other 9
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ペンション コーボルト | — | 4.00 61 reviews | 1.8 km | 関越高速『沼田IC』国道120号日光方面へ / 国鉄『沼田駅』 |
| 武尊高原 白樺 | — | 4.25 36 reviews | 2.7 km | ＪＲ 上毛高原駅より車で１時間／沼田駅より車で１時間 |
| ペンション 西洋館 | — | — | 2.8 km | ＪＲ沼田駅／関越沼田ＩＣより県道にて車で４０分 |
| ペンションコスモラマ | — | — | 2.8 km | 沼田駅よりお車で５０分、バスで６０分 |
| ペンション宇宙 | — | — | 3.1 km | 沼田ＩＣ／沼田駅 |
| ペンション クレソン | — | 5.00 15 reviews | 3.3 km | 関越自動車道 沼田ＩＣより日光尾瀬方面へ４０分。 |
| 民宿たばこや | — | — | 3.4 km | 上越新幹線 上毛高原駅または上越線 沼田駅よりバス利用 / 関越道 沼田ICより120号線経由 |
| 民宿 藤井荘＜群馬県＞ | — | 4.25 15 reviews | 3.9 km | ＪＲ上越線 沼田駅より車で５０分、上毛高原駅より車で５０分 |
| 慶信館 | — | — | 3.9 km | ＪＲ沼田駅／関越道・沼田ＩＣ～県道６４号経由で３０分 |
Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)
More places to look
Guides covering Gunma
- Everywhere on Earth You Climb for Snow. Japan Is the One Place You Drive Toward the Sea. Across 3,069 ski areas we measure, height and snowfall move together — +0.58 in France, +0.85 in Germany. In Japan the figure is +0.02. The reason is not that elevation stopped working.
- How Close to Rain Does the Snow Fall? Japan, the Alps and North America Compared We measured how close to freezing the snow already falls at 240 randomly drawn resorts in the Alps and North America, and at all 397 in Japan. Japan is not one place: Honshu is among the most exposed, Hokkaido among the least.
- Why Is Hokkaido's Snow Colder? Latitude, Elevation and Rain Across 397 Japanese ski areas, elevation sets the temperature and latitude does almost nothing to it — inside Honshu, going north is worth nothing at all. What latitude buys instead is the absence of rain.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52