パルコール嬬恋スキー場伝説のパウダースノー • 東京からわずか2時間 • スキーインスキーアウト
By: パルコール嬬恋リゾート Palcall Tsumagoi Resort · 2026-06-23
Palcall Tsumagoi Resort Ski & Hotel is a ski area in Gunma, Japan, on slopes between roughly 1,376 and 2,028 m. Its mapped area is about 4.0 km across, with 16 marked runs and 6 lifts (about 16 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 178 cm of snowfall a season, 289th of the 397 ski areas we measure in Japan. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2025/26 (135 cm), reached 76% of the average. March is usually the snowiest month, with about 52 cm. Snowfall days are cold, averaging −6.8 °C at mid-mountain, and its snow-quality score ranks 144th 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
8.7℃
Max wind
7.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
1376–2028m
Across
4.0km
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
178 cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
135 cm
A typical winter: 179 cm. The best: 234 cm.
World rank
1335
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
289
of 397 in Japan
Elevation rank
13
Highest to lowest, of 397 in Japan. The centre point sits at 1,731 m, 965 m above the national median.
Quality rank
144
of 397 in Japan
Temp when snowing
-6.8°C
Japanese median: -3.5°C
Rain days
9%
Japanese median: 16%
Days over 5 cm
9%
Japanese median: 15%
Wind when snowing
18 km/h
Dryness 0.63
Frequency 0.24
Freedom from rain 0.76
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minenohara Kogen | 8.4 km | 198 cm | 1164 |
| Sugadaira Kogen Davos Hill Ski Area | 8.7 km | 153 cm | 1621 |
| Kazawa Snow Area | 10 km | 136 cm | 1860 |
| Manza Onsen | 10 km | 255 cm | 692 |
| Sugadaira Taro Area | 10 km | 153 cm | 1621 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in March. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 52 cm, about the same as the median of 46 cm.
38cmDec
51cmJan
37cmFeb
52cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 178 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2025/26 with 135 cm; the biggest was 2023/24 with 234 cm (1.7 times as much).
234
135
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
16
Run length
16km
Lifts
6
Vertical
703m
Top 2,089 m · base 1,386 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map2.4 km
Steepest pitch17°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs9.5°
Which way the slopes face
North 3%
East 87%
South 9%
West 0%
90% 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 6
Intermediate 9
Advanced 1
Lift types
- Chairlift5
- Gondola1
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.
See the snow in motion
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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.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Azumaya四阿山 | Mountain | 3.5 km |
| Mount Neko根子岳 (長野県) | Mountain | 4.8 km |
| Kanbara Kannondō鎌原観音堂 | Temple | 10.1 km |
| Mount Kusatsu-Shirane草津白根山 | Nature | 12.2 km |
| Kusatsu Onsen草津温泉 | Hot spring town | 15.2 km |
| Mount Asama浅間山 | Mountain | 18 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: 36.5567, 138.4477
Places to stay nearby
8 properties on Rakuten Travel lie within 3 km of this ski area, listed cheapest first.
| Property | From | Rating | Distance | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| オーベルジュ ドゥ ら・ルーナ | ¥5,500 | 4.17 46 reviews | 2.1 km | ＪＲ 万座・鹿沢口駅より車で２０分碓氷軽井沢IC/60分。渋川伊香保IC/90分。上田管平IC/50分。 |
| パルコール嬬恋リゾートホテル | ¥10,800 | 3.13 548 reviews | 1.5 km | 上越自動車道：碓氷軽井沢ICから約７０分・上田菅平ＩＣから約５０分 関越自動車道：渋川伊香保ＩＣから約１２０分 |
| バラギ高原ロッジ | ¥11,300 | — | 1.9 km | ＪＲ万座鹿沢口駅／碓氷・軽井沢ＩＣより７０分／渋川・伊香保ＩＣより９０分 |
| プチホテル マニトゥー | ¥16,800 | 4.71 21 reviews | 2.0 km | 万座鹿沢口駅～ＪＲバス・タクシー・送迎（※要予約、時間制限あり） |
| プチホテル アジル | — | 4.90 64 reviews | 1.7 km | ＪＲ 万座・鹿沢口駅より車で２０分 |
| プチホテル 白樺 | — | — | 1.8 km | 関越自動車道渋川伊香保ICよりお車で約８０分 峠道が無いのでお勧めです。 |
| ペンション エポ | — | — | 1.8 km | 万座・鹿沢口駅より車で２０分 |
| コテージ ら・ルーナ | — | 5.00 39 reviews | 1.9 km | ＪＲ 万座鹿沢口駅 車で２０分/ 碓氷・軽井沢ＩＣ６０分 /渋川・伊香保ＩＣ９０分 /上田・菅平ＩＣ５０分 |
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Stay nearby
6 places within 12 km of the slopes. Most of them do not take online bookings — open the map for contact details.
4 Hotel 2 Guest house
Nearest: 1.5 km
Nearest first
- パルコール嬬恋リゾートホテル Hotel 1.5 km
- とちぎや Hotel 7.9 km
- 嬬恋プリンスホテル Hotel 8.6 km
- 山形屋旅館 Guest house 10.3 km
- 山田屋温泉旅館 Hotel 10.3 km
Accommodation data: OpenStreetMap
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