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Ookuradake Kogen Ski Area

大倉岳高原スキー場
Off season Official site

Ookuradake Kogen Ski Area is a ski area in Ishikawa, Japan, on slopes between roughly 305 and 496 m. Its mapped area is about 1.0 km across, with 5 marked runs and 4 lifts (about 1.9 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 215 cm of snowfall a season, 244th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2024/25 (325 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2019/20 (86 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 85 cm. Snowfall days average 0.6 °C at mid-mountain, close to freezing, so the snow is often heavy, and its snow-quality score ranks 369th of 397 in Japan.

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
17.1℃
Max wind
6.6km/h
Elevation (est.)
305–496m
Across
1.0km

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
215 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
86 cm
A typical winter: 224 cm. The best: 325 cm.
World rank
995
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
244
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
298
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 356 m, 410 m below the national median.
Quality rank
369
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
+0.6°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
53%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
16%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.10
Frequency 0.46
Freedom from rain 0.35
Calm when snowing 0.96

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
Hakusan Senjo Onsen Seymour Ski Area15 km507 cm82
SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort16 km526 cm78
Kanazawa Municipal Ski Resort33 km314 cm430
IOX-AROSA36 km314 cm430
Fukui Izumi Ski Resort40 km315 cm427

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 24% 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 20 cm, less than the median of 46 cm.

54cm
Dec
85cm
Jan
56cm
Feb
20cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 215 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2019/20 with 86 cm; the biggest was 2024/25 with 325 cm (3.8 times as much).

86
325
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
5
Run length
1.9km
Lifts
4
Vertical
228m
Top 504 m · base 276 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 map0.7 km
Steepest pitch28°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs13.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 72%
East 20%
South 0%
West 7%

92% 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 1
Intermediate 3
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

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.

See the snow in motion

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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
Awazu Onsen粟津温泉Hot spring town10.1 km
Nata-dera Temple那谷寺Temple11.2 km
Motorcar Museum of Japan日本自動車博物館Museum11.5 km
Yamanaka Onsen山中温泉Hot spring town15.3 km
Yamashiro Onsen山代温泉Hot spring town15.9 km
Shirayama Hime Shrine白山比咩神社Shrine19.4 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

2 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
アノアタリの古民家 ^¥8,120—3.6 km粟津駅から車で約30分
木風舎プライベートキャンプ&ロッジ ^¥9,048—3.7 km粟津駅から車で約30分

Contains advertising · Property data by Rakuten Travel (Supported by Rakuten Developers)

Stay nearby

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

14 Hotel

Nearest: 5.6 km

Nearest first

Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap

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Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52

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