Powder Day at Ohana Resort! オハナリゾート 乗鞍第１コース右３ 2026/2/1 #shorts #ski #Japow 32滑走日
By: 法月ロイの日本絶景紀行 · 2026-04-26
Ohana Resort is a ski area in Shiga, Japan, on slopes between roughly 381 and 734 m. Its mapped area is about 1.6 km across, with 6 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 3.1 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 116 cm of snowfall a season, 360th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (188 cm), brought more than 9 times as much as the leanest, 2015/16 (19 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 46 cm. Weather models read low in the mountains: a Japan Meteorological Agency station 10.3 km away measured 326 cm a winter over the last three seasons, against 151 cm from the model. Snowfall days average −1.5 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 350th of 397 in Japan.
Below are links to 4 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
15.6℃
Max wind
6.8km/h
Elevation (est.)
381–734m
Across
1.6km
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
116 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
19 cm
A typical winter: 124 cm. The best: 188 cm.
World rank
2148
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
360
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
270
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 476 m, 290 m below the national median.
Quality rank
350
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-1.5°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
48%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
9%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
21 km/h
Dryness 0.25
Frequency 0.24
Freedom from rain 0.35
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akoyama Skijo Snowpal | 12 km | 142 cm | 1775 |
| Hakodateyama Ski Resort | 14 km | 113 cm | 2196 |
| Yogo Kogen Resort | 19 km | 249 cm | 743 |
| Imajo 365 | 21 km | 249 cm | 743 |
| Kutsuki Snow Park | 27 km | 118 cm | 2117 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 17% 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. In amount, March brings 8 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.
31cmDec
46cmJan
32cmFeb
8cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 116 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2015/16 with 19 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 188 cm (9.9 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.
19
188
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
6
Run length
3.1km
Lifts
4
Vertical
206m
Top 588 m · base 382 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map0.8 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10°
Which way the slopes face
North 18%
East 73%
South 8%
West 1%
91% 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 2
Advanced 1
Lift types
- Chairlift4
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: Ohana ResortRoads nearby国道161号 ↗From the resort: 0.6 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局 滋賀国道事務所Roads nearby国道161号 ↗From the resort: 0.7 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局 福井河川国道事務所Roads nearby国道161号 ↗From the resort: 6.8 kmOperated by: 近畿地方整備局 福井河川国道事務所
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.
Okuibuki and Yogo 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.
What was actually measured nearby
Total snowfall from December to March recorded at the 柳ケ瀬 weather station — 10.3 km from this ski area, 337 m below its mid-slope.
| Three-season average | 326 cm |
| 2023/24 | 242 cm |
| 2024/25 | 439 cm |
| 2025/26 | 297 cm |
The figure calculated on this page is 151 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 22 °C).
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a spring in 西浅井町(大浦) | 4.9 km | 22℃ cold | 5.94 mildly acidic | carbon dioxide, iron | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Yogo余呉湖 | Nature | 9.6 km |
| Shizugatake賤ヶ岳 | Mountain | 9.9 km |
| Chikubu Island竹生島 | Nature | 13.4 km |
| Kehi Jingū氣比神宮 | Shrine | 13.4 km |
| Hōgon-ji Temple宝厳寺 | Temple | 13.6 km |
| Tsukubusuma Shrine都久夫須麻神社 | Shrine | 13.7 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: 35.5350, 136.0894
Places to stay nearby
3 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ペンション「Ｒｕｄｄｅｒ」ラダー | ¥13,280 | 4.29 55 reviews | 6.4 km | 北陸自動車道 木之本より車で約１５分。電車でお越しの場合JR永原駅まで無料送迎有り（但し予約時に御連絡下さい） |
| 奥琵琶湖 四季亭 | ¥27,300 | — | 7.9 km | 高島市コミュニティバス 国境線「海津一区」バス停下車後 徒歩約５分 |
| ロテル・デュ・ラク | — | 5.00 18 reviews | 7.5 km | 最寄り駅 ＪＲ湖西線永原駅から車で約５分 |
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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 Shiga
- Is Western Japan Snowier Than It Looks? Our Model Against the Weather Stations Western Japan's ski areas look thin in our data — a median of 125 cm against a national 249 cm. Against 16 Japan Meteorological Agency stations, the model we use returns 44% of what the ground records there. The region is far snowier than our own numbers say.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52